Samsung develops 8 GB microSD Memory Card
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has developed an 8 GB microSD (Secure Digital) memory card, a size optimal for multimedia mobile phones. Featuring the highest capacity today for a microSD card, the new fingernail-sized card is capable of storing 2,000 MP3 music files, 4,000 digital photos, or approximately 5 DVD-quality movies. SD cards, to date, have been largely used for data storage in digital still cameras and increasingly in televisions. MicroSD cards, which are a quarter the size of an SD card, are backward compatible with SD cards using an extender, to allow multimedia files downloaded by mobile phones to be easily displayed on other media.
With a read speed of 16 MBps and a write speed of 6 MBps, Samsung’s 8 GB microSD card well exceeds the Speed Class 4 SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) standard, which requires a data write speed of 4 MBps. This is also much faster than the SD Speed Class 2 designation carried by most competing microSD cards currently on the market. This achievement is the latest in a string of record-breaking improvements in flash memory cards for Samsung as it continues to aggressively pursue its goal of being the development leader for the SD card market, as well as the competing MMC (multimedia card) market. The market research firm Dataquest predicts that the memory card market as a whole will average 10% annual growth between 2006 and 2010, while demand for high density 8 GB cards will grow an average of 2.6 times per year over the same period. By 2010, the 8 GB memory card will be the market mainstream in terms of units sold. Damn I feel so lame with my 512 MB card. 
Comments(16)
Sweet! I love using MicroSD cards in my mobile phone.. only problem is they haven’t stored a lot of data, until now
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my nintendo ds is gonna love this
dammit, all i’ve got is a 64 MB stick -.-
that’s good news
i still have 64mb in my nokia phone
also got a 512 mb :S
i bought a 2gig 4 days ago
thats a class act by samsung huge memory for a fingernail sized card,what’s axxo talking about? does’nt sound like any mobile phone i’ve heard of.
to axxo—– they talk about microsd not usb card but u too dumb or u do traninig to be so dumb when the text have also a picture
new phones can only accept 4gb ?
this is gonna be useful for: my DS flash cart and my sandisk mp3 player.
http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Catalog(1166)-SanDisk_Sansa_e200_Series_MP3_Players.aspx
with the micro SD expansion slot, the 8GB model becomes a 16 GB!!!
I have a 512 mmc in my fone and its grand for holding like 100 songs… I dont need anymore reely… The annoyin thing is my fone has a wierd nokia connection not a 3.5 thinggy so i hardly ever listen to my fone.. So i have an ipod
that is not axxo
I work with cell phones daily and it’s a joke right now to see a cell phone read all 8 gigabytes of a microSD card. Even the new KRZR can’t handle 2GB cards. Some can handle 4GB, but the problem is always what the cell phone can read, not how big the card is.
Wait for the price to come down on the 8GB, and by the time it’s at a reasonable level, cell phones should support it as well.
Hope this was of some use.
~Ian
Ian
By the time the 8 GB microSD is at a reasonable price, the cellphones will most likely have preinstalled flash memory of 8GB or more…
aXXo, you rock. way to kick those little on-topic dweebs with your absolute non sequitur bragz. wotta cupcake.
that said, this 8GB SD will kickass on my R4DS