Now, here’s a story that could end up impacting massively on the wide, wide world of mobile phones. Well, eventually, anyway. Sync Blog are reporting that a brand new class of memory card has been announced at the CES (the Consumer Electronics Show, for anyone who didn’t know) in Las Vegas, which’ll allow you to store a lot more data on your device.
I’m not talking 8Gb. I’m not talking 16Gb or 32Gb.
I’m talking 2 terabytes, or, to put it another way, 2,000Gb…
Two. THOUSAND. Gigabytes.
Dear god, that’s massive. Now, needless to say, it’s not going to be that big on launch, and of course, no mobile phones will actually work with it yet, since the new cards themselves, called SDXC (for Secure Digital eXtended Capacity) aren’t compatible with current SD slots. But, can you imagine them not appearing in mobile phones? No, me neither. Just imagine something like a next-gen Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, say, where they’ve changed the card format to SDXC. That instantly gives you 2Tb of music on your phone, or in the region of 500,000 songs.
That, of course, begs the question of how the hell you’re ever going to fill something that size! I’ve put a large part of my record collection on my X1 Xperia, and I’ve only used about a gig and a half. And that’s with the songs in higher-quality-bigger-file-size format, as well. I suspect there isn’t actually enough music in the world to fill 2Tb. Put it this way: DVD movies come on discs that are usually about 9Gb in size, so if a single movie, with all its extras on that disc is 9Gb, you’d be able to fit over 200 DVD-quality films on the 2Tb SDXC card. And yes, that includes all the extras on the disc, too…
Why do I get the feeling that a fair few mobile phones, when they get access to these supermassive cards, will be filled with films of an, erm, artistic nature…?
No words on prices or when we’ll actually see a 2Tb memory card in the wild, let alone when they’ll shrink one down to microSD size to fit in mobile phones (and you just know they’ll fit it in a card the same size as my fingernail), but as soon as more info turns up, we will be shouting about it!
I’m not talking 8Gb. I’m not talking 16Gb or 32Gb.
I’m talking 2 terabytes, or, to put it another way, 2,000Gb…
Two. THOUSAND. Gigabytes.
Dear god, that’s massive. Now, needless to say, it’s not going to be that big on launch, and of course, no mobile phones will actually work with it yet, since the new cards themselves, called SDXC (for Secure Digital eXtended Capacity) aren’t compatible with current SD slots. But, can you imagine them not appearing in mobile phones? No, me neither. Just imagine something like a next-gen Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, say, where they’ve changed the card format to SDXC. That instantly gives you 2Tb of music on your phone, or in the region of 500,000 songs.
That, of course, begs the question of how the hell you’re ever going to fill something that size! I’ve put a large part of my record collection on my X1 Xperia, and I’ve only used about a gig and a half. And that’s with the songs in higher-quality-bigger-file-size format, as well. I suspect there isn’t actually enough music in the world to fill 2Tb. Put it this way: DVD movies come on discs that are usually about 9Gb in size, so if a single movie, with all its extras on that disc is 9Gb, you’d be able to fit over 200 DVD-quality films on the 2Tb SDXC card. And yes, that includes all the extras on the disc, too…
Why do I get the feeling that a fair few mobile phones, when they get access to these supermassive cards, will be filled with films of an, erm, artistic nature…?
No words on prices or when we’ll actually see a 2Tb memory card in the wild, let alone when they’ll shrink one down to microSD size to fit in mobile phones (and you just know they’ll fit it in a card the same size as my fingernail), but as soon as more info turns up, we will be shouting about it!
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incredible....
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