The trailblazing people at Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have managed to create an 8Gigabyte (GB) microSD (Secure Digital) memory card. This represents the highest storage capacity available for a microSD in the market. Never has the world seen a microSD card that can boast of such a humongous memory.
Of course, the card is only big on memory. It is as small as your fingernail to look at. 8GB is enough to cater to most of your storage needs. Did I hear murmurs of dissent? Ok, so 2,000 mp3’s, 4,000 digital photos, or approximately 5 DVD quality movies aren’t enough. Come on people; get real.
Not only is this card great on memory front, it performs better than all the microSD cards, currently available, in terms of its speed. It is capable of a read speed of 16 Mbps (Megabytes per second) and a write speed of 6 Mbps. These stats are far better than ‘SD Speed Class 2 designation carried by most competing microSD cards currently on the market.’
Here is an excerpt from the Samsung press release:
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.
Although SD cards dominate market, this Samsung creation will give a fillip to microSD usage. The microSDs are much smaller in size (1/4th of normal SD’s) and can replace them. The reason I say this is the fact that microSDs are backward compatible with most of the devices which use SD cards. All you need is a small extender.
Unfortunately, this new card from Samsung won’t hit the market until mid-2008 (probably) and there is no word on price, yet.
Nevertheless, bravo Samsung!
