Will many prople be using 8 GB miccrSD cards?

nazoil

I'm just wondering if people will find much use for the latest 8 GB microSD cards from Sandisk in their mobiles? Sounds like a lot to me

towel401

i prefer compactflash myself.but to answer the question i don't think many people will be buying them for a while, because they are still expensive even compared to other memory cards and the famous "average consumer" will probably stick to the lower capacity ones for a while

jimmycrackcorm

8GB can hold a lot of high quality video on an N95 but most people will prefer to get an 8GB card to hold MP3's nstead of carrying an additional MP3 player.

Compared to a 60GB player, 8GB isn't a lot. I've a 6gb card myself only because the 8GB cards weren't available.

Flying

A Lot of Devices are not SDHC compatible, but it is handy for having a few hundred songs at hand

jester77

I'll be picking one up when I get the N82. The Sandisk 8GB is €80 from Amazon so I think it's an ok price for 8GB. I remember paying nearly that for my current 4GB SD card a few years back! 8GB is not a lot, once you add in some software and maps and leave some room for taking photos & vids.

Flying

Anyone know where I can get an 8GB Micro SDHC from as in a shop and not online

mkennedy

As Flying says 8gb micro-sdhc cards will only work with a few new devices- nokia n95, E90 and a few HTC WM6 devices like the Touch, Tytn II (Trinity possibly?).

8gb sounds like a lot but i'd say it'd be easy to fill- you can never have enough memory

e.g Tomtom maps and software and maps are close to 1gb.
Wikipedia is >1gb (up to 4gb depending on which one you use).
That leaves only a few gigs for mp3s (50-100 albums if you're lucky).
And that's outside of video which would be 200-300mb a film and things like podcasts etc.
So you really need 16gb to be anyway happy

snaps

The bigger the better! 6gb micro cards are best value. I picked one up for €40 on ebay the other day. Since i brought an HTC smartphone i havent looked back. I have email, music, video, internet (wifi), GPS all in one device. Same battery isn't the greatest but its great to have all applications in 1 area.

Mitch Connor

mkennedy wrote: »

As Flying says 8gb micro-sdhc cards will only work with a few new devices- nokia n95, E90 and a few HTC WM6 devices like the Touch, Tytn II (Trinity possibly?).

They will work in the LG Viewty, but the memory manager on the phone won't see it properly itself. (the 8GB Is usable, but the phone won't be able to tell you itself what is used/free)

mkennedy

snaps wrote: »

The bigger the better! 6gb micro cards are best value. I picked one up for €40 on ebay the other day. Since i brought an HTC smartphone i havent looked back. I have email, music, video, internet (wifi), GPS all in one device. Same battery isn't the greatest but its great to have all applications in 1 area.

Which device is that snaps.
The p3600/3600i or the p3300.
Or the touch-cruise?


Also who did you buy the 6gb card off- I can't see any 6gb cards under 50 euro myself!
Are you sure it's genuine (sealed etc). And is it a sandisk.

snaps

It was a second hand card and i won it via bidding. I use it in a htc S710