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btw, it might just work, hence not necessarily a bad buy... expensive though...
It's not a terrible price for what it is (and if it works). I was expecting $200 or something with your filthy rich comment. I'm sure there was a time when we spent more than $100 on a 512MB memory card.
Think about it, take a 500G hard drive and extract ONE platter.
One platter is about 125G, thicker, but smaller than a DVD disc.
BUT.... have you guys ever taken apart a SD card? you'll realize most of the volume of the card is made up from the plastic cover, and PCB film...
the actual memory chip is no larger than a pen eraser, and no thicker than a credit card....
and those chips can hold 4-8G
There are major differences in writing to magnetic media which is like putting tiny drops of ink on paper and to flash which involves a couple of transistors per bit. With the platter analogy you forget the read/write head, the spindle motor and the actuator you need to make it all work not to mention the energy costs of keeping that disk spinning all the time (if you want to avoid lag), and let's not even talk about slow random reads/writes on magnetic platters.
Even with the SD card analogy, even though the chip is the size of a pencil eraser, you still need the plastic around it to make a MicroSD card. If they could make an 8GB microsd card they would have already done it. These cards are self contained and have their own interface built-in as well. Yeah I would love a 16gb or 32gb MicroSD card but it does not exist because I don't think it is possible to do just yet.
It has to be firmware because if a hardware change is needed to support SDHC, then it is no longer microSD.
Anyhoo, anyone find it pretty amazing that a DVD-worth of data now fits onto something the size of your fingernail?
MicroSDHC hardware can read microSD cards. It's very possible that we have microSDHC readers in our phones, since as others have said, the tech has been around for a while. This leaves us with 3 possibilities:
1) No one has tried using a microSDHC card and reported the results(it works)
2) The SDHC capability is crippled with the current firmware.(it doesn't work)
3) The phones don't have SDHC capability.
It seems like someone must have disassembled a n95 and priced out the parts inside...
Phone(s):
1: Nokia N95 (T-mobile, personal)
2: Apple iPhone (AT&T, personal)
3: Motorola RAZR v3m (Verizon, work)
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Originally Posted by sr1329
It's not a terrible price for what it is (and if it works). I was expecting $200 or something with your filthy rich comment. I'm sure there was a time when we spent more than $100 on a 512MB memory card.
Ha. I remember paying $270 for a 10MB CF card for my new Kodak DC50 one megapixel camera, which I paid $999 for.
I took about 20 pictures with the thing before my wife wanted to borrow it -- and lost the thing.
That was about 10 years ago. Yes, she is still among the living, and she is forbidden from touching my equipment now.
05-08-2007, 11:20
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