Samsung Announces 8GB microSD card

Samsung today announced it has developed a new 8GB microSD memory card for mobile phones, double the size of the 4GB cards just announced in February from other card makers.

According to Jim Elliot, director of flash marketing, the new cards will offer data transfer rates of 16MB/sec for reads, and 6MB/sec for writes. You'll be able to put these cards in an extender for use in full-size SD slots, as you can with other microSD cards.

Nice development for portable storage, but don't plan on using the cards any time soon: Samsung says it doesn't plan to ship these cards until mid-2008. Also, the company hasn't yet announced a price.

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