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SanDisk Introduces the Largest Capacity of the World's Smallest Flash Card for Mobile Phones - the 4GB micro SDHC
BARCELONA, SPAIN, Feb. 12, 2007 – SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today introduced a 4-gigabyte (GB) microSD High Capacity (SDHC™) card —the largest capacity of the world’s smallest removable flash memory card. A 4GB microSDHC™ card can store more than 1,000 digital songs or more than 2,000 high-resolution pictures or up to 8 hours of MPEG 4 video . SanDisk made the announcement at 3GSM World Congress 2007, where it is demonstrating products in Hall 7, booth 7C62.
“Content is driving the demand for higher capacity flash memory cards in mobile phones,” said Jeff Kost, vice president and general manager of the Mobile Consumer Solutions division at SanDisk. “The new 4GB SanDisk microSDHC card will allow handset manufacturers and mobile network operators to plan rich media services for their customers who increasingly see their phone as their camera, video player, gaming system and music player.”
SanDisk is now sampling the new 4GB microSDHC card to OEMs such as major phone manufacturers and mobile network operators (MNOs). Engineering samples are now available for evaluation, as mobile phone makers will need to upgrade the firmware in their handsets so that memory slots can support the new card.
SDHC is the new designation for any SD™ or SD-based card that is larger than 2GB and adheres to the new SD 2.00 specification that is required for cards and hosts to support 4GB to 32GB capacities. The specification was developed by the SD Association, an industry standards board, which also defined three speed classes for speed and performance capabilities. These cards adhere to the SD Speed Class 2 Rating specification which defines a minimum sustained transfer speed for SDHC cards.
Retail release of the card is planned for later in 2007. OEM pricing has not been determined yet.
In line with the announcement of the 4GB microSDHC card, SanDisk is offering various capacities of microSD™ cards in a Mobile Memory Kit. Each package contains both miniSD™ and SD adapters, so that consumers can select the appropriate card for their use without being influenced by card size. With SanDisk adapters, microSD and microSDHC cards can be “stepped up” to fit into a variety of other electronics devices that have miniSDHC and SDHC slots.
Apart from handsets, microSDHC cards also can be used in some digital audio players, such as SanDisk’s Sansa® c200 and e200 series MP3 players.
For additional information on the SDHC format, please visit SanDisk’s website:
• What is SDHC: http://www.sandisk.com/sdhc/SDHC.pdf
• SDHC product information: http://www.sandisk.com/sdhc
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ooo, very nice. one question i have is: in the compatability list, it lists one mobile phone to be compatible already with the 4gb SDHC, the PALM D80???
SDHC Compatible Device List
2007 February
Device compatibility information source:
Independent on-line review or device manufacturer press release, product manual or other 3rd party source. Please check with your device manufacturer for details.
Brand Device Type Model Max Capacity
Canon Digital Camera PowerShot A630 4GB
Digital Camera PowerShot A640 4GB
Digital Camera PowerShot A710 IS 4GB
Digital Camera PowerShot G7 4GB
Digital Camera PowerShot SD40 4GB
Digital Camera PowerShot SD800 IS 4GB
Digital Camera PowerShot SD900 4GB
Casio Digital Camera EXILIM EX-S600 4GB
Digital Camera EXILIM EX-S770 4GB
Digital Camera EXILIM EX-Z1000 4GB
Digital Camera Exilim EX-Z600 4GB
Digital Camera EXILIM EX-Z700 4GB
Digital Camera EXILIM EX-Z770 4GB
Digital Camera EXILIM EX-Z850 4GB*
Palm Mobile Phones D80 4GB
Nikon Digital Camera SLR D80 4GB
Panasonic Digital Camcorder SDR-S150 4GB
Digital Camcorder SDR-S200 4GB
Digital Camera Lumix DMC-FX07 4GB
Digital Camera Lumix DMC-FX3 4GB
Digital Camera Lumix DMC-FX50 4GB
Digital Camera Lumix DMC-FZ50 4GB
Digital Camera Lumix DMC-LX2 4GB
Digital Camera SLR Lumix DMC-L1 4GB
Pentax Digital Camera Optio A20 4GB
Digital Camera Optio M20 4GB
Digital Camera Optio S7 4GB
Digital Camera Optio W20 4GB*
Digital Camera SLR *ist DL 4GB
Digital Camera SLR K100D 4GB
Digital Camera SLR K10D 4GB
Digital Camera SLR K110D 4GB
Sanyo Digital Camcorder VPC-CA6 4GB
Digital Camcorder VPC-HD1A 4GB
Digital Camera VPC-E7 4GB
Digital Camera VPC-S7 4GB
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If only it could be HC compatibility could be attained with a firmware update.
I cant wait to get my sample.
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