A micro SD card can be used in cellular phones, digital cameras, digital audio players, newer video players, GPS devices, portable media players, expandable USB flash drives, PDA’s, and other devices.
Micro SD cards were first introduced in 2005 and within 2 years they became one of the most widespread digital camera formats for point-and-shoot. Yet micro SD cards not only provide a great format for camera settings they also have massive storage. Although the micro SD card is very tiny, about 15x11x1 millimeters (approximately the size of a small fingernail) they hold from 128 megabytes (MB) to 8 gigabytes (GB) of memory. With an 8 GB you can store over 1100 high quality pictures, 1000 favorite songs, 21 hours of entertaining video, or several choice games.
These advanced memory cards support encryption and content protection making them extremely fast in transferring data. Simply, micro SD cards have a transfer rate of 10 to 20 MB’s per second. An average transfer rate for a 600 to 1200MB file would take about one minute to load, quite impressive.
Although some older model devices will not take a micro SD card, most all modern equipment will have a micro SD card slot. Common brands for cellular phones such as the BlackBerry Curve 8310, AT&T 8925 Tilt (HTC TYTN), LG Dare, LG Voyager, T-Mobile G1, and the Samsung BlackJack II will work superbly.
Brands for camera such as Vivitar Vivicam 5.1MP V5024 and the 8.1MP Underwater Digital Camera, Sony Cybershot DSC-W170, and most Olympus cameras will take over a thousand pristine pictures with an advanced memory card. Other devices such as a Garmin Oregon 400t GPS system or a jWIN 2 GB MP3 Player are also compatible with a micro SD card.
There are quite a few micro SD cards on the market. A few products that hold vast amounts of memory, have superior quality, and have a reasonable price are the SanDisk 8GB microSDHC Card CLASS 2, Kingston 4 GB microSDHC Class 4, Kingston 8 GB microSDHC Class 4, and theTranscend 4 GB Class 6 microSDHC.
SanDisk 8GB microSDHC Card CLASS 2:
Model Number: SDSDQ-8192-bulk
ASIN: B0012Y2LLE
Memory: 8GB
Performance Speed: Class 2
Weight: 1.6 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Kingston 4 GB microSDHC Class 4:
Model Number: SDC4/4GB
ASIN: B000VX6XL6
Memory: 4GB
Data Transfer Rate: 4 MBps minimum
Item Weight: 0.5 ounces / 1.4 grams
Dimensions: 0.43 x 0.59 x 0.39 inches / 11 x 15 x 1 millimeters
Adapters: Full-size SD (with adapter), microSDHC
File Format: FAT 32
Operation temperature: -13 to 185 degrees F / -25 to 85 degrees C
Storage temperature: -40 to 185 degrees F / -40 to 85 degrees C
Kingston Tech Support: Free
Warranty: Limited lifetime
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Kingston 8 GB microSDHC Class 4:
Model Number: SDC4/8GB
ASIN: B001CQT0X4
Memory: 8GB
Form Factor: microSDHC
Hardware Platform: PC
Item Weight: 0.5 ounces / 1.4 grams
Dimensions: 0.8 x 0.4 x 2.6 inches
File Format: FAT 32
Kingston Tech Support: Free
Warranty: Limited lifetime
Compatible with microSDHC host devices
Not compatible with standard microSD-enabled device/readers
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Transcend 4 GB Class 6 microSDHC:
Model Number: TS4GUSDHC6
ASIN: B0013DXVYK
Memory: 4GB
Performance Speed: SDHC Class 6 compliant
Form Factor: MicroSD
Hardware Platform: PC
Item Weight: 1 pound
Dimensions: 5.2 x 3.2 x 1 inches
Adapters: Full-size SD (with adapter), microSDHC
Fully compatible with SD 2.0 Standards
Plug-and-play operation
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5
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