Nate Lanxon
Nate is CNET.co.uk's expert on digital music and portable media. He was born just long enough before the beginning of the digital age to grow up with it, become one with it and then be utterly consumed by it. 'Geek by profession' has been his career goal for two decades.
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Monday 7 January 2008, 7:11pm
16GB microSD cards could be on the horizon
I've predicted that we'd see some interesting advances in flash memory this year at CES, and thus far it seems I was right.
It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of flash memory, particularly in the microSD form. I got all excited when I saw an 8GB microSD card for the first time, and continually remind myself not to take such awe-inspiring capacities inside such tiny form factors for granted.
Yesterday I was wagging chins with one of SanDisk's reps. Although we were mainly talking about solid-state hard drives -- not that he would tell me where the 100GB models sit on the company's road map -- we also discussed microSD.
"So tell me, are you going to give us 16GB microSD any time soon?" I asked. "Are you going to be at tomorrow's conference?" he replied, to which I answered in the affirmative. "Then watch this space," he retorted, with a smile.
Now I'm not one for idle speculation, as you know. But 16GB of microSD would be exciting to the point of nerdgasm, and I'm not-so-secretly hoping today could be the day we hear word of its release date.
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I hear these 16GB MicroSD cards from Sandisk could be available as soon as next week.!
Posted by Micky on Wed 28 May, 2008 10:42 AM
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