SanDisk Announces 6GB and 8GB microSDHC card

SanDisk first to offer 6 and 8GB microSDHC cards World’s Smallest Flash Cards for Mobile Phones

Few days ago we finally got confirmations that 4GB microSDHC cards works just fine with Nokia N95 and Nokia N76 as well and now, few weeks after Samsung, SanDisk has also increase capacity of their microSD cards up to incredible, freaking, crazy 8GB and reached a new threshold of portable memory storage for mobile phones. The world's smallest and the largest cards for mobile phones, are expected to be available in stores later this year.

A million thoughts and questions running through my head at the moment; who really need a phone with hard drive, for what it worth, who really need an iPhone, my N95 supported with 8 GB of memory simply rocks ;)

Of course there is no proof that these cards will actually work with any of existing Symbian phones but in my personal opinion there is no reason why not, the only important thing is that N95 supports card made in SDHC compliant and size is irrelevant. Anyway, here is the full press release.

SanDisk® Corporation announced that it is has begun sampling 6- and 8-gigabyte (GB)1 microSD™ High Capacity (microSDHC™) flash memory cards to major phone manufacturers and mobile network operators (MNOs) for testing and evaluation. The new cards are ideal for the growing number of feature-rich multimedia handsets that bring together phones, music players, hand-held computers, digital cameras and more. An 8GB microSDHC card can store more than 2,000 digital songs, or more than 5,000 high-resolution pictures, or up to 5 hours of high-quality MPEG 4 video2.

Retail release of the cards and availability to phone manufacturers and network operators are planned for later in 2007. Pricing has not yet been determined.

“With these new cards, any mobile phone with a compatible microSDHC slot will have just as much storage as the largest-capacity iPhone,” said Jeff Kost, vice president and general manager of the Mobile Consumer Solutions division at SanDisk. “What’s more, removable cards make it easy to share content you create with friends, ‘sideload’ files from a computer, and add more storage simply by purchasing more cards. By offering capacities of 6GB and 8GB, SanDisk is poised to enable people to enjoy more photos, more map data for navigation, more videos, more games and more music, wherever they go, on any phone with a compatible microSDHC slot.”

SDHC is the designation for any SD™ or SD-based card that is larger than 2GB and adheres to the new SD 2.00 specification required for cards and hosts to support 4GB to 32GB capacities. The specification was developed by the SD Association, an industry standards board, which has also created three classes to define minimum sustained data transfer speed. These cards adhere to the SD Speed Class 4 Rating.3