Samsung develops 8GB microSD card
By Chris Ziegler 
posted May 16th 2007 11:48PM
posted May 16th 2007 11:48PM
Wow, it seems like we were just marveling over the introduction of the world's first 8GB SD card a few moons back. Ah, that's right, we were. Alas, Samsung took it to heart that SD doesn't cut it for your average cellphone (they run a bumpin' mobile business, after all), announcing that it has managed to pack a full eight gigabytes into the microSD form factor for mid-2008 production. That's particularly timely considering that 4GB examples haven't even gotten into widespread circulation yet -- "8GB" just has a nicer ring to it -- not to mention that the new card handily surpasses SDHC guidelines with 16MB/s reads and 6MB/s writes. For the record, a microSD card rocks a little over 20 percent of the surface area of its SD counterpart, so does this mean we can expect 40GB SD cards, like, now? Not quite.
What about miniSDs? Are they going to make an 8GB miniSD? Why are micro SD favored? Are they better?
Compared to MiniSD, MicroSD cards are smaller and better suited to cell phones.
MiniSD and (Standard) SD are relegated to Digital Cameras and MP3 players.
You won't see a 40GB SD card possibly ever - the current standard (SD2.0) tops out at 32GB.