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laffen Posts: > 500

SanDisk today announed that it will start shipping 8 GB M2 cards later this year. SanDisk will be the first company offering 8GB size.
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SanDisk Corporation today announced that it is shipping 8-gigabyte (GB) Memory Stick Micro™ (M2) flash memory cards to phone manufacturers and mobile network operators (MNOs) for testing and evaluation purposes. Primarily used in Sony Ericsson mobile phones, the 8GB SanDisk M2 cards are ideal for the growing number of consumers who make their mobile phone—with its built-in music player, digital camera and video player/recorder—the centerpiece of their digital lifestyle.

At 8GB, SanDisk offers the largest capacity M2 card in the world. The new card will allow consumers to listen to more than 2,000 digital songs, or store more than 5,000 high-resolution pictures, or up to 5 hours of high-quality MPEG 4 videos . The announcement was made at IFA, the world's largest consumer electronics show, where SanDisk is exhibiting at Booth 130, in Hall 15.1 of Messe Berlin, through Sept. 5. By contrast, Sony announced their largest M2 capacity card in July this year. The size is 2GB and should be available from September. Sony plans to launch a 4GB version later this autumn.

SanDisk8GBM2MemoryCard

"With the addition of an 8GB SanDisk M2 card, consumers will instantly have the same amount of storage as the largest capacity iPhone," said Jeff Kost, senior vice president and general manager of the Mobile Consumer Solutions division at SanDisk. "Furthermore, removable cards make it easy to share content you create with friends, ‘sideload’ content and files from a computer and have virtually unlimited storage by simply purchasing more cards. SanDisk is enabling people to get more out of their phones than ever before."

Retail release of the cards and availability to phone manufacturers and network operators is planned for Q4 2007. Pricing has not yet been determined.

In addition to its Memory Stick Micro M2 cards, SanDisk also offers a broad range of both embedded and removable storage solutions for mobile handset manufacturers and mobile network operators. These include iNAND™ and mDOC™ embedded flash drives and microSD™, microSDHC™, miniSD™ and MegaSIM™ cards.

SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products, using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.
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Posted: 2007-08-31 16:40:18
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Aware Posts: > 500

Hoorah!

Was going to get a 4GB for the T650, but this'll be perfect......

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Posted: 2007-08-31 16:44:41
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himlims_nl Posts: > 500

4gb is beeing sold here in Netherlands round 70euro's
i have not been able to recover any retail prices for the 8gb version
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Posted: 2007-08-31 16:46:50
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jakontil Posts: > 500

wow, that's gigantic for a memory card! but i think consequently, the speed of the card will be reduced?

i wonder how much it will cost!.

@aware, is the 4 GB available on sale? how much does it cost?

i hope P1i will support it

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Posted: 2007-08-31 16:46:55
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alexlt Posts: > 500

I just get 2 x M2@4Gb, but I will sell them for this

Any estimated price??
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Posted: 2007-08-31 16:46:57
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Aware Posts: > 500

Try play.com, they're ~£35......

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Posted: 2007-08-31 17:05:21
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max_wedge Posts: > 500

On 2007-08-31 16:46:55, jakontil wrote:
wow, that's gigantic for a memory card! but i think consequently, the speed of the card will be reduced?

Larger cards are just as fast as small ones.

You can fit more on a larger card, so access times are often slower on larger cards because they are fuller, but once a folder is loaded the speed is just the same. Keeping smaller folders will avoid the slow reading of folder contents.

Other than that there is really nothing slower about a larger memory card. The phone doesn't have to look through the whole card everytime it access's data - the file system uses an addressing method to find data quickly and efficiently.
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Posted: 2007-08-31 17:12:17
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skylineR35 Posts: 279

i bought 2GB M2 just few days before 4GB are introduced.
its priced at about 80USD.
now the price is about 37USD...
i wonder when the 8GB come out mine will be more and more cheaper

i wonder why computer RAM price dont go down as fast as memory cards

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Posted: 2007-08-31 17:16:52
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PeterKay Posts: > 500

8gb

Blimey, all in hte same size as the 128mb M2 card i sold yesterday for £1

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Posted: 2007-08-31 17:18:42
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crossmatched Posts: > 500

what is the maximum memory capacity for the new

phones? T650/k850/w910 et al can accomodate 4 gigs of M2? 8gigs of M2?
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Posted: 2007-08-31 17:54:06
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