SanDisk announces world's highest capacity microSDHC card for mobile phones

By Julian Prokaza on Tue 08 January 2008

SanDisk 12Gb microSDHCSanDisk has announced the world's highest capacity microSDHC card with a whopping 12Gb capacity. No bigger than a fingernail, the 12Gb card can hold 50% more data than the currently available largest card (a paltry 8Gb) and according to SanDisk, can store the equivalent of 1,500 128Kbit/s MP3s or 24 hours of MPEG-4 video. 

The card means that it's now possible to pack almost as much music into a compatible mobile phone as Apple's top-end (16Gb) iPod touch, which is more than enough for most people.

SDHC cards of all types do require an SDHC compatible slot and won't work in standard SD card slots. Most relatively recent handheld devices are compatible, however.

The SanDisk 12Gb microSDHC card conforms to the new SD 2.0 specification and adheres to the SD Speed Class 4 Rating – a data transfer speed of around 4Mb/s, in other words. The 2.0 spec also supports cards with capacities of up to 32Gb.

[SanDisk]

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