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Friday, January 9, 2009
When I show people my USB flash drive and tell them it holds 16GB of data, that nearly always gets a wide-eye response. But man, if the SD Association’s just announced specification turns into reality, I’ll be using SDXC cards instead of my hard drive! Yes, the amazing announcement of 2 TB (that’s Terabytes) was told the world via CES today. Projected read/write speeds would be, “104 megabytes per second this year, with a road map to 300 megabytes per second,” according to the SD Association press release. So what would your iPhone with SDXC support be able to hold with such capacity? 100 HD movies, 480 hours of HD recording or 136,000 fine-mode photos to be specific. Oh ya, like millions of Contacts, too. 
“With SDXC, consumers can quickly download higher quality content to their phones, including games, video and music – giving consumers a richer media and content experience,” said James Taylor, president of the SD Association. “The SD interface already has proven itself valuable in mobile phones. Now, SDXC memory card capabilities will spur further handset sophistication and boost consumer content demand.”
Since this is specification, there is no actual dates for cards or support for them. The SD Association states the full documentation will be released for it by Q1 of 2009. Reality of when we’ll see SDXC cards on the street is probably at least 16 months.
