Transcend's 4GB miniSDHC announced, but no place to go
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Nov 24th 2006 8:09AM
posted Nov 24th 2006 8:09AM
So by now you've seen a smattering of SDHC devices and even a few cards with capacities up to 8GB right? But what about some good ol' miniSDHC and microSDHC bastardization of the SD 1.0 standard? Sorry to tell ya, they're on the way too. In fact, Sandisk already announced their 4GB miniSDHC card back in September; now Transcend offers up their own take on the SD 2.0 standard which, in theory, will someday max-out at 32GB. And as a class 2 card, you can expect minimum data write speeds to hit at least 2MB/s. Although miniSDHC is touted for use in cellphones, we've yet to see any device supporting that format -- so smart move Transcend, we'll be needing that full-size SDHC adapter you bundle for "free." Still, there's no word on pricing or availability but these will no doubt hit the streets side-by-side with compatible devices sometime in the new year. [Via AVING]
Transcend in my opinion in general is a ripoff. I ordered from them in December 2008 and they never shipped the product (according to the USPS) but charged my card. I've been getting the runaround ever since. All this over $50! Imagine if you spent hundreds or more with them?
Regarding the microSDHC... Does anyone know if the Nokia N95 or other microSD mobiles will be able to be upgraded to accept these cards?
And how about 888????
technically speaking, SD2.0 is one part HW upgrade to double the max clock frequency for SDHS, and one part SW upgrade to support the higher densities of SDHD. Many phones may not have the host controller necessary to do SDHS, but that doesn't prevent them from supporting SDHD with a software patch. though loading 32GB of data at ~80Mbps would be slooooow...