TRANSFLASH APPROVED BY SDA

Written by Adam Gosling

Thursday, 14 July 2005

SanDisk Corporation has announced its TransFlash storage card format was officially endorsed by the SD Card Association and will be known as the microSD card. The microSD and the TransFlash card are fully compatible, but the company plans to migrate its 10 mobile phone manufacturers across to the approved standard. The company also announced the availability of a 512MB version of the card and said it plans to increase capacity to 1GB card by this year and to 2GB in 2006. The microSD format is the smallest removable storage device in the world, but is only classed as semi-removable. SanDisk currently supplies ten major handset manufacturers with TransFlash cards and has placement of this card at more than 60,000 retail storefronts. There are already more than 40 mobile phones that support TransFlash are shipping or have been announced. More than 5 million of the TransFlash cards have been shipped since SanDisk announced the format with mobile phone maker Motorola in February last year. “Mobile phones now feature built-in high-resolution camera functions, content downloading capabilities and entertainment features that clearly demonstrate the need for removable storage cards to enhance mobile device capabilities," said Paul Reinhardt, newly appointed executive director of the SDA. "SanDisk worked hard to ensure that the TransFlash card offers handset makers and consumers an ideal combination of large capacity, small physical size and cross-platform interoperability. By making this specification an industry standard, we believe this will spur even greater adoption and market acceptance.” Related news items Major Players To Test WiMAX Interoperability -26/09/2007 Nokia E51: Smarter Than It Looks -19/09/2007 New Flash Memeory Card Standard Coming -16/09/2007 Broadcom Enthusisam for 802.11n Wavers -06/09/2007 ASUS A686/696 GPS PDA -23/08/2007 Newer news items New Storage Card Standard Increases Capacities -19/07/2006 8GB 133X CompactFlash From Lexar -19/07/2006 Solid State Drives Could Replace Hard Drives -17/07/2006 Run Windows Apps From Your USB Drive -13/07/2006 Webaroo Offers Online Content Offline -10/04/2006 Older news items SECURE USB DRIVE -26/04/2005 Tag This Now: