Product Overview

Kingston’s micro SDHC card makes your mobile content no longer tied to your phone/camera. You can share your 8 GB content with your friends, family and colleagues easily with this removable storage solution designed for mobile phones and digital cameras with expansion slots.

The Kingston Micro SDHC removable memory card has been developed specifically to expand the memory capacity of today’s high spec mobile phones. This card will enable you to store more music, movies, video clips, pictures, ring tones and more.

Now the Kingston micro SD comes with an SD adapter giving you the convenience to use it as a full size secure digital (SD) card in SD enabled devices, such as media card readers.There is a built in write protect switch inside the adapter which protects your data from accidental loss.

This card is also power efficient and consumes very little power therefore giving you an extended battery life in your mobile phone.

Features

Lifetime warranty
Includes SD size adapter
Class 4 Specification
4MB/sec. Minimum Data Transfer Rate
Dimensions 11mm x 15mm x 1mm

Secure Digital (SD) Cards have been in the market for around 10 years, Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) Cards are the advanced version made for the need of higher capacities as well as faster data transfer rate in digital cameras and other such devices. SDHC cards are designed for devices that are compatible with the SD 2.00 specification. Products designed exclusively to support previous SD specifications 1.0 and 1.1 will not be able to fully utilize SDHC cards. To check whether your device is SDHC compatible, look in your device manual or on the packaging/box for the SDHC symbol.

Capacity

SD – Secure Digital card capacities range from 8 MB to 4 GB and SDHC – Secure Digital High Capacity memory cards are flash memory cards with a minimum capacity of 4GB (gigabytes)!
SD and SDHC cards are a removable storage solution for compatible digital devices including digital cameras, camcorders, MP3 players, PDAs and more.
The increasing demand for high-capacity flash memory springs partially from the use of high-definition video and high-resolution digital photography, SDHC cards meet the challenge of these demanding products not only by providing greater storage but also by faster data transfer speed

Shape and Size

SD and SDHC cards look identical in size and shape, only SDHC-compatible cameras and devices can accept the new SDHC cards. Manufacturer differentiates its new cards with the SDHC logo on the card and retail package.

SD and SDHC Memory Cards

Data Transfer Speed

Users can get the maximum performance of their digital products by using digital memory cards that support the device’s highest data transfer speed.

The Secure Digital (SD) card falls in three Classes according to Data Transfer Speed (DTS) as follows:

Class 2: minimum sustained DTS of 2MB/sec (13x Speed)
Class 4: minimum sustained DTS of 4MB/sec (26x Speed)
Class 6: minimum sustained DTS of 6MB/sec (40x Speed)

The issue with these memory cards is that if the card has a write speed of 6MB/Sec or 40x Speed, then thats the maximum speed not the average speed.Lets say the device (eg. camera) will start writing the image or data to the card at 0MB/sec and then work up to the top operating speed of 6MB/sec and then slow down again to 0MB/sec as it finishes writing the data, thus meaning the average write speed may be around 3MB/Sec.

Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) cards have a guaranteed minimum write speed of say 6MB/Sec (40x Speed) will start at this speed and may in fact have a higher top speed – like the SanDisk Extreme III Secure Digital Card – SDHC 4gb Memory Card, this is a Class 6 card -therefore having a minimum sustained write speed of 6MB/Sec – 40x Speed, but has a top speed of 20MB/Sec – 133x Speed.

This means that the SDHC card starts writing data at a specified speed and sustain that speed, whereas regular SD Cards start writing data at 0MB/Sec and build up to a top speed; SDHC memory cards start writing the data at a higher minimum speed.

SD and SDHC Extra Features

Secure Digital(SD) cards were forced to create a new specification for SDHC cards when the previous specifications reached out at a highest capacity of 2GB. This occurred previously when SD cards hit the 512MB wall. The new 2.00 specification should last a bit longer, as it allows SDHC cards to reach a maximum capacity of 32GB. Secure Digital is so-named “Secure” because of its ability to protect copyright content through Digital Rights Management (DRM). Thats why it is the favored flash memory format in the industry.

Conclusion

But before purchasing a SD or SDHC memory card, make sure your device is compatible. If a device manual does not list SDHC cards, or state it is “SD specification 2.0 compatible,” the device cannot work with SDHC cards. Remember, if your device accepts SDHC cards, it is backwards compatible with standard Secure Digital (SD) cards too.

The new SanDisk 16GB micro SDHC memory card is fully compatible with Nokia N95. This represents a new boundary in capacity to be reached in the latest mobile phones that support the card.

Most of the Nokia N95 owners out there will want to know a little more about how the 16GB card performs in their phone so we did some extra effort and took some testing snaps of 16GB memory card working in Nokia N95.

Prerequisites

First make sure that you have updated N95 to the latest firmware version via the Nokia Update Manager as the older Nokia N95 firmwares will not handle the card well at all. We saw that it may trigger some O/S freezing and rebooting when you try to open the Gallery or Music Player.

The following tests were completed on the firmware version: 21.0.016 Nokia N95 – RM-159
*To check your firmware type this on your Nokia N95 *#0000# and make sure it’s the latest firmware version*.

So here are the snaps:

The new SanDisk 16GB micro SD memory card

Inserting the card into the slot.

It took 10-12sec scanning the memory card contents using the file manager.

As you can see we tested with over 10Gb of music files loaded onto the SanDisk card.
Selecting music tracks via the File Manager was straightforward and quick, with menu lists of music folders, and mp3 files from the memory card updating on the screen with no noticeable slowdown compared to onboard storage.

The playback of the tracks stored on the card was also faultless, without any skipping or buffering problems, from up to 320kbps encoded MP3 right down to lower bit rates.

Going to the Gallery and into Tracks, or into the Music Player from the Music menu folder is a different matter. To those familiar with the Music Player app, this is where a scan of the card contents will commence to update the cached track list. Due to the large number of files (over 4000 MP3 files in this case) this process is very slow. However it is a once only operation, as after the first scan, the cached file only needs a refresh. To avoid this lengthy scanning process it is possible to upload the track list via the Nokia PC Suite which stops your phone having to generate it for you.

Conclusion

All in all, we were very impressed to see the difference once again that Nokia’s support of its existing customer base via regular and meaningful firmware upgrades has made.
In this case Nokia N95 owners now have available an easy and affordable way to give their phones a new lease of life with 16GB of extra storage.

Other Compatible Phones

The following phones are also known to be compatible with the 16GB micro SDHC card:

Samsung i900 Omnia
Nokia N96 (release October 2008 – max capacity is 32GB inc the 16GB onboard!)
Nokia 6220 Classic
Nokia 6210 Navigator
Nokia E71
Nokia N95

HTC Touch Pro / Dual
HTC Tytn II/ MDA Vario III

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Capacity

The 4GB miniSDHC card is able to provide the fast speed and large capacity required to support increasingly popular but storage-intensive applications such as digital imaging, music and video record/playback functions as well as mobile television and videogames. The 4GB capacity can store up to more than 2,000 high-resolution pictures, more than 1,000 digital songs or up to 8 hours of MPEG 4 video.

Speed

SanDisk’s Mini SDHC product is a class 2 device: it delivers a minimum data transfer speed of 2MBps

while the Kingston Mini SDHC product is a class 4 device with a minimum data transfer speed of 4MBps.

Compatibility Issues

Remember, SD High Capacity (SDHC) card is the new SD memory card based on the SDA
2.00 specification, introduced by the SD Card Association. This new SDA 2.00
specification enables SD cards to reach higher capacities – 4GB-32GB.
Because SDHC works differently then standard SD cards, this new format is not
backwards compatible with legacy SD format host devices.

For compatibility check, look for the SDHC logo on cards and host devices (mobile phones,cameras,
camcorders, etc.)

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