SD Card Association announces Embedded SD standard
by Donald Melanson 
posted Sep 11th 2008 at 3:06PM
It looks like the SD Card Association association is starting to spread its wings beyond the comforts of removable storage, with it now aiming for a piece of the embedded storage market with its new, appropriately-named Embedded SD standard. Set to actually make its debut in devices this November, the new standard apparently makes use of many tried-and-true SD standards, which the association says should ease platform design in cellphones and consumer electronics devices and speed up widespread adoption. Among other things, the standard includes support both 3.3V and 1.8V power supplies, a flexible partition mechanism to allow for multiple partitions to accommodate various types of data, various data-protection and power-saving measures and, of course, an option to boot from the embedded SD. There's still no word on any specific devices that'll employ the standard, but you can expect them to max out with 32GB of on-board memory and 32GB of removable storage.
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Nathan @ Sep 11th 2008 6:26PM
finally! i've always thought that putting an sd card into the inside of the phone would be awesome and still have an expansion slot.
Nathan @ Sep 11th 2008 6:27PM
finally! i've always thought that putting an sd card into the inside
of the phone would be awesome and still have an expansion slot.