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Jonathon Watkins
01-17-2006, 04:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=5699' target='_blank'>http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.a...?ContentId=5699</a><br /><br /></div><i>"SanDisk is unveiling a microSD card with a 1 GB (gigabyte) capacity. Originally developed by SanDisk and formerly known as TransFlash, the fingernail-sized card will be able to store up to 32 hours of WMA-compressed music. . . The card comes with an adapter allowing it to be used in a standard SD slot. The previous highest capacity for the SanDisk microSD was 512 megabytes (MB). SanDisk also expanded its mobile line today by introducing a SanDisk 2GB miniSD card (up from 1GB) with the aim of accommodating consumers' increasing demand for accessing photos, music and video. . ."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/sandiskvcast.jpg" /> <br /><br />My, how the two smallest members of the SD family are growing! The suggested prices are US$119 for the 1GB microSD and US$199 for the 2GB miniSD. I thought that wasn't bad until I saw that a 2Gb SD card <a href="http://thoughtsmedia.pricegrabber.com/search_attrib.php/page_id=152/popup1%255B%255D=50:105/ut=5343cfe87fba78fe">goes for US$105 these days.</a> Yup, my next Pocket PC will come with an SD slot (I hope :worried:).

DaleReeck
01-17-2006, 02:02 PM
Yup, my next Pocket PC will come with an SD slot (I hope :worried:).

That's what I said too until I bought my miniSD equipped Audiovox (HTC) 6700 from Sprint. It had all the other features I needed and I had to bite the bullet. Sometimes we have no choice in the matter :)

pocketpcadmirer
01-17-2006, 05:13 PM
"32 hours of WMA-compressed music"

Cool !! But at 48kbps ??

Sunny :lol:

Muntasser
01-17-2006, 05:21 PM
sweet. one just wonders, whats the theoretical storage limitation of these cards using current technology? we must be getting close to have 1gb on one of those transflash size cards!!!!

Fingers crossed, its still a way off 0X

Jonathon Watkins
01-18-2006, 12:14 AM
Sometimes we have no choice in the matter :)

I know. I really know. :?

I hope I don't have that choise foisted on me. :dilemma:

bnycastro
01-18-2006, 07:24 AM
Curses! I just got myself a 1GB miniSD... I think I should have waited for the 2GB ones... :evil: