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ToAoM
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Just bought a transcend microsd card for my yet to be delivered HTC Kaiser. It came with a microsd to memorystick pro duo adapter. I tried it with my sdhc 4GB card and it actually worked fine with my W850i. Which is nice to know as a 4GB microsd card is actually much cheaper. And now i can use the same memory for mx two phones and my camera. I wonder if the 8GB cases will work as well...
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max_wedge
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Hey, that is indeed good news. About time someone brought out an adapter. I guess imminent release of K850 has prompted this (K850 has support for both microSF and M2, and I think comes with a microSD to MSD adapter)
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juniji
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Good luck with that guys.
The performance of a USD card in a Duo adaptor is piss poor. Your ability to do this is also limited, as Duo phones are being phased out.
The k850 is not a 'shape of things to come' for SE. Good luck with the combo connector. This is combersome and a pain in the ass for most users. Difficult to figure out which card to use, difficult to insert.. a disaster all the way around.
M2 will reign in SE handsets for the time being, as theres no room for these combo connectors and the M2 has been widely accepted by the SE customer base.
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max_wedge
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yeah right. whatever. I have no doubt that K850 will run microSD fine. What do you mean hard to choose which to use??? Whatever you have in hand, whatever is cheapest or whatever you can afford. Atleast one has the option.
The microsSD adapter means you can buy microSD memory for the K850 and still use it in your MSDP readers, camera or old phones.
As to performance, maybe but lets not jump to conclusions. People said same things about msdp afapter but they work fine.
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anyer
Joined: Sep 29, 2007
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It's really a good improvement of SE phone.
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mustafabay
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On 2007-09-29 05:25:47, juniji wrote:
The k850 is not a 'shape of things to come' for SE. Good luck with the combo connector. This is combersome and a pain in the ass for most users. Difficult to figure out which card to use, difficult to insert.. a disaster all the way around.
juniji
I believe in reviews it was mentioned that well each card only fits one way and if you feel like you need a hammer to knock it in to the socket the you have the card upside down. That seems pretty simple and I don't think people will be changing cards every 5 minutes for it to become soooo combersome.
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harryville
Joined: Jun 22, 2004
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so it seems that microsd HC cards work in SE phones!!! |
ToAoM
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They indeed work fine. I tried the adapter in mx cardreader and the funny thing is that it can now read the sdhc card where it could not with a sd adapter.
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ToAoM
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Just tried a quick test with a Sandisk SDHC card of 4GB in the Transcend adapter and on my PC I get an average write speed of almost 4MB/s and a read speed of 5.5MB/s. I find that very decent.
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Memzee
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Interesting, although I have a feeling that direct support for microSD in the K850i is limited to 2GB. I'm personally going to wait to see what performance is like when you have a memory card of that size or even a 4GB M2 before I buy one. |
ToAoM
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I've got a 1 and a 2 GB as well i'll test them tomorrow.
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max_wedge
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On 2007-09-30 23:57:46, Memzee wrote:
Interesting, although I have a feeling that direct support for microSD in the K850i is limited to 2GB. I'm personally going to wait to see what performance is like when you have a memory card of that size or even a 4GB M2 before I buy one.
why wouldn't it? SD architecture supports up to 32GB, why would SE artifically limit the SD capacity? Doesn't make sense they would offer SD at all if they want to force us to use M2?
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Memzee
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They're not forcing you to use M2 unless you want to put in a 4GB card. And it wouldn't be the first time SE have limited something when the hardware is there. |
max_wedge
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On 2007-10-01 09:46:47, Memzee wrote:
They're not forcing you to use M2 unless you want to put in a 4GB card. And it wouldn't be the first time SE have limited something when the hardware is there.
who said you can't use 4GB microSD? You said you have a "feeling" it won't support larger than 2GB. On what do you base this feeling? Because to my mind I can't see any reason why it won't support microSD larger than 2GB.
I agree SE and most OEM's have at some time limited hardware. But as I said, why would SE even offer microSD support if they want to force you to use M2??
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Dogmann
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@ max_wedge
Actually it's not SD cards that support up to 32GB it's SDHC cards that do and there is s big difference. You can not even use a normal card reader for SD cards built into computers to read them you need a special SDHC reader. But the fact that SE have given the K850 SDHC support is a great move as 6GB cards are already available for about £40 and the 8GB cards are expected any time soon with even larger cards expected next year .
Marc
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