RSSMicroSDHC capacity to grow yet again
By Sharon Fisher | Published January 7, 2009, 1:18 PM
For people whose phones are crammed full of photos, music, video, and other space-intensive content, SanDisk has announced a 16 GB microSDHC card. Phones from vendors such as Nokia, Google, and Samsung use microSDHC cards. (Similar cards are also produced by Nokia and Toshiba.) The card comes with a MobileMate Micro Reader that plugs into a USB 2.0-compatible port, which makes it easier to put data onto and take data off the card. SanDisk also announced a similar product specifically for Sony Ericsson phones that use Memory Stick Micro (M2) cards. The microSDHC card costs $119.99; the M2 costs $129.99.
Many devices out today are capped at 8GB. They may increase the size through a firmware update though.
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|This isnt new news, the 16GB microSD cards have been on the market for months, I'm using one right now in my Sprint HTC Touch Pro.
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|Oh great.
So not only do we have an entire industry of SDHC cards that are not recognozaed by the universal format readers (so you can't simply plug them into your PC and download the contents, but must use the $%!#@ device used to record them), we now have a new category that will suffer the same incompatibility!
Here's an idea: Spend the 15 minutes of R&D time to insure that the SDHC as well as the MicroSDHC cards are able to be recognized by the SDHC and MicroSDHC readers!
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|The only difference between SDHC and MicroSDHC cards is the physical size of the device. Otherwise they are identical in every way.
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|Good news for all the Sansa e-200 series (Rockboxed) owners too!
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|I recently put a 4GB MicroSD into my Rockboxed Sansa e270. The idea of boosting that up to 16GB is exciting. At the rate things are going, in a couple years my old harddrive-based Neuros II will be totally obsolete compared to a player 1/10 the size.
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