SanDisk Starts Shipping X4 Flash Cards, Will Eventually Be Awesome

SanDisk's X4 tech packs four bits of data into each memory cell, compared with the typical one or two bits. That means they'll be able to far exceed the 32GB limit on SDHC, microSDHC and others, and they've started shipping. More »

Kingston MobileLite G2 Card Reader Protects Your Cards Like They're Delicate Flowers

Kingston's followup to its MobileLite, the MobileLite G2, brings a new, dual-slider design that aims to protect your SD/HC and microSD/HC cards from harm. It's the most caring card reader on the market. More »

Nintendo Opens SDHC to Bootable DLC

Nintendo's decision to eschew a standalone Wii hard drive for the support of SDHC was a good one, as users can buy tiny and cheap 32GB SDHC cards to expand storage. But what just you could store was in question. More »

Wi-Fi MicroSD Card Makes Eye-Fi Look Obese

Japanese phone king KDDI is showing off a MicroSD card with built-in Wi-Fi, sorta like those photo-uploading Eye-Fi cards everyone loves so much. Actually, they're exactly like that, except, well, much smaller. More »

SanDisk Claims Title of World's Fastest 32GB SDHC Card

The new Extreme SDHC card from SanDisk comes in 4/8/16/32GB capacities and boasts speeds of up to 30MB/s, which SanDisk claims as the world's fastest. More »

New MacBook Pros Can Boot From Their Internal SD Slot

Aside from photo transfers and straight up storage expansion, the SD card slot in the new MacBook Pros has a single, extremely cool trick up its sleeve (slot?): it's bootable. More »

LaCie Data/Share SD Reader Callously Mocks the Sacred Taoist Concepts and Yin and Yang

USB flash media readers aren't exactly ripe for innovation, so it's rare that they surprise us in a way that doesn't inspire laughter. But 69ing two readers into one compact, featureless lump? That's kinda genius. More »

Rubik's Cube Card Reader Will Only Make You Look Smarter

Of course, it's not an officially licensed real Rubik's Cube (unless you're looking at the easiest Rubik's Cube in history), but Brando's "270˘X x 270 X Card Reader" comes close enough. More »

First SDXC Card Is The World's Fastest, Only Holds 32GB

SDXC, the new memory card spec announced at CES, promised exciting things, storage-wise. Pretec demonstrated the first card that'll support the standard, and at a mere 32GB and 50MB/s, well, it's a step. More »

Pen Reads Four SD Cards While Looking a Bit Like a Rocket

Thanko's 4-slot SD card reader/pen, but we're waiting for the 8-slot, double X-Wing version. No word on retail price, but we're sure it'll be available soon at various online import vendors. [Akihibara News]

USB Cable Features Clever Inline SD Card Reader

Here's a simple, fantastic idea. This otherwise standard USB cable adorns its wire with an inline SD card reader, creating a 2-in-1 SD reader/USB cable. More »

Elecom Waterproof SDHC Cards Keep Wet Memories Dry

While they won't do much to salvage that fancy camera, Elecom is trusting that some of us will benefit from their waterproof SDHC cards.

Toshiba Pops Out 16GB microSD Card, Ultra-Fast 8GB and 16GB SD Cards

Sandisk may have a 16GB microSDHC card already a little sneakily on the scene, but now Toshiba's announced it's joining the game with one of its own. The card is compliant with SD memory standard version 2.00, as are the other two cards Tosh is making: The 8GB and 16GB SDHC cards with a maximum write speed of a speedy 20MB/s. All of these tiny memory units are due for production and sale over the next two to three months, so you'll be slipping them into your cellphones and cameras from early '09. [Toshiba]

SDHC Driver for the Palm OS Released

Palm gets lost in the midst of all the iPhone and Android hype, but if you still love your good old Palm OS, Dmitry Grinberg has finally released an SDHC driver that allows for card support. The program is available for devices like the Tungsten T|C, Tungsten E|2, Tungsten T|5, LifeDrive, Palm TX, Zire 31 and Zire 72, with other machines like the T|T3 and the Zodiac on their way. At $21, its really not a bad deal for all that extra storage. [TamsPalm]

Sandisk Exreme III SDHC Cards Blaze Along at 30MBps, 50% Faster than Before

Sandisk previously popped new Extreme III versions of its Memory Stick lineup, and now it's extended the tech to SDHC. The new family of cards can cope with 30MBps read/write data rates, a 50% speed boost over previous versions and a "new speed record" according to Sandisk. They're designed for digital cameras that have a high-speed burst mode, like the Nikon D90, and can safely capture "39 images in continuous shooting mode at 4.5 frames per second with a file size of 6.0 MB JPEG L Fine per image." You'll have to wait 'til October, and expect to spend $64.99 for the 4GB card, $109.99 for 8GB and a sizable $179.99 for 16GB. Press release below. More »

Triple Format Hitachi DZ-BD10HA Blu-ray Camcorder Also Writes to HD and SDHC

For folks who smartly don't want to be locked into any particular format, the DZ-BD10HA adds the option to record 1080p videos and stills to its built-in 30GB hard drive or an SDHC card, on top of mini-Blu-ray discs. A dubbing feature also promises to dump footage from the SD card or HD directly to mini Blu-ray for archiving, without a PC. On top of that is a 7-megapixel CMOS sensor, face recognition and optical image stabilization. Hitachi's first Blu-ray cam, the DZ-BD7HA, was a bit of a stinker image quality wise according to reviews, so we'll see if the new sensor performs better this time around when it ships in the U.S. next month for an even $1,000. More »

Adapter Uses Six SDHC Cards For Voltron-Like DIY SSD Drive

We've seen them for CF cards—now, there's an SSD enclosure that will take up to six of the SDHC cards you have lying around and tie them into a single 2.5-inch SATA SSD. While it won't match speeds of dedicated SSDs (especially if the cards you're using aren't near the high end), the boys at Impress managed 111.4 MB/s read and 55.2 MB/s write times using six 8GB cards—not too shabby for a DIY solution that will save you some money (the adapter is $90 in Japan), especially if you're already swimming in big SDHC cards. [Impress]

Toshiba Launches Small, Cheap HD Palmcorder: Camileo H10

Toshiba's budget HD camcorder, the Camileo H10, actually doesn't skimp on features, it seems. The SD-based device records in 720p to its internal 64MB memory, or SDHC cards (up to 8GB, around 4 hours of footage) and has a 10 megapixel CCD. It squeezes in a 5x optical zoom, video stabilization, motion-detection shooting, night mode, HDMI output and a 2.7-inch display. Not bad for $350, and available from the end of July. [Pocket Lint]

3.5-Inch Digital Photo Frame from HP Small but Chic

There's been a slew of Hewlett Packard products over the past few days and, although this digital picture frame is probably the smallest of the bunch, it's pretty damn cute. Available in Europe at the moment, the frame has QGVA resolution, is SD-, SDHC- and MMC-compatible, can hold up to 45 pictures, and costs $76. Like I said, cute. [CNET Asia]

Cheaptastic $199 12-Megapixel GE Camera Spotted on HSN

In case you were wondering when the final treaty would be signed in the megapixel war, I think today is as good as any day to call it. There's a 12-megapixel GE—that is to say, brand-licensing no-name Chinese manufacturer—camera selling on HSN for "under" $200. It even lists a 2.7" LCD, an SD/SDHC card slot (though up to 4GB only, so not sure the deal there), and shooting up to ISO 3200. Despite all this, our suspicion is that its pictures won't be exactly Canon-grade to say the least. At any rate, a test of this baby will answer once and for all whether megapixels matter. [HSN]

Flash on Flash: SSD Benchmarked Against SDHC

Tablet PC Review benchmarked the SSD storage format vs SDHC (high capacity SD cards), concluding that SSD substantially outperforms the other flash format. To SDHC's credit, it produced access times that rivaled SSD, but while a class 6, 8 GB SHDC card read at around 18 MB/s and wrote around 14 MB/s, a 128 GB SSD read and wrote at over 90 MB/s. The point? Just a reminder that not all solid state is created equally. [PC Tablet Review via JKK on the Run]

Panasonic AG-HMC150 Shoots on SDHC

After nearly six years, Panasonic is finally releasing a true HD successor to the popular but aging AG-DVX100. The $6000 AG-HMC150 shares triple CCDs, optical image stabilization, and audio capability with the DVX100, but adds a variety of HD formats including 1080/60i, 1080/30p, and 1080/24p. Panasonic has confirmed a basic 13Mbps recording mode but hasn't given a firm number for the "enhanced mode" for "higher-level use." Hopefully it will be closer to the AVCHD maximum 24Mbps and show what the format is really capable of. It'll use the same SDHC cards you'd use in a basic point-and-shoot. Jump for the press release. More »

Panasonic 32GB SDHC Card Fastest Yet

Panasonic's 32GB SDHC isn't the first one, but at class 6 (meaning it writes at least 6MB/s) it's the fastest 32GB card yet. [Market Wire]

SanDisk's 8GB Ultra II SDHC Doesn't Even Need a Reader

Making flash memory USB compatible without a card reader seems to be the hot thing to do nowdays, and SanDisk is following up on the craze with their Ultra II SD card with USB interface. It's 8GB, has a $99 MSRP, and can fold in half to reveal the USB connector that you can easily shove into the USB slot on your machine. Because if we have to carry around one more thing in our bags when making the mad dash to grab a seat at Macworld, we may just collapse halfway in and have to blog prone on our stomachs in the aisle. [BusinessWire via jkontherun]

Sandisk 32GB SDHC Eats HD Video For Breakfast

This new Sandisk 32GB SDHC card may give you colossal space for HD video capture, but we'll see if the Class 4 speed rating holds up under such pressure. The card is driving down memory prices though - despite costing $349, it's half the cost of Toshiba's model a few months ago. It won't be available until April, and by then at least one memory hungry camera will need such huge capacity. [Wired]

Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

CORRECTION: The RiData SDHC card is a Class 2 card, not a Class 4 as we originally reported. More »

Panasonic Intros AG-HSC1U 3-CCD 'Pro' Camcorder Using SDHC Memory Cards

Panasonic unveiled its AG-HSC1U camcorder, a 3-CCD high-definition shooter that the company is billing as the world's smallest 3-chip professional HD camera. Its specs are nearly the same as its brandmate that uses those 4GB (88-minute) SDHC cards, the HDC-SD1, but it adds a 40GB hard drive on which to store their footage. The camcorder's also equipped with a slightly faster Leica lens, an f/1.6 as opposed to the f/1.8 of that more consumer-oriented HDC-SD1. More »

Kingmax Announces 4GB Capacity on a Tiny MicroSDHC Card

Kingmax has discovered how to make twice as many fairies dance on the head of a pin, shoehorning 4GB of data onto a microSDHC flash memory card, a first. This is simply amazing. Just look at that size comparison I've made above—a credit card looks like it's the size of a billboard next to a microSD card. When you hold one of them in your hand, it's hard to believe it can even store 1GB on its form factor that's barely the size of a baby's fingernail, much less 4GB. More »

Ultra SDHC: More Storage for the Money

For those of you who happen to have a device that actually makes use of SDHC cards—which are not backwards-compatible with gear that takes standard SD—Ultra has announced a new card that packs in 8GB of storage with a read speed of 18 MB/s and a write speed of 3MB/s. More »

Toshiba 8GB SDHC Memory Card: More Bits, Less Compatibility

Until now we've heard idle talk of 8GB SD memory cards coming by the end of this year, and now Toshiba has actually announced one. The bad news is this SD-HC008GT4 card, like all SDHC cards, isn't compatible with existing devices that use those old-fashioned SD memory cards. That's right, if you want to dance all those angels on the head of this pin, you'll have to spring for a shiny new device that supports the SDHC (that HC stands for "high capacity") standard. More »

SanDisk 4GB miniSD SDHC Card: Not Compatible With Current miniSD Devices

SanDisk rolled out a 4GB miniSD high-capacity flash (SDHC) memory card, giving you the ability to cram a whole lot of stuff onto a little flash card that's about the size of a fingernail. But don't try to slide this baby into that cellphone that uses regular garden-variety miniSD cards, because that's not going to work. It'll fit perfectly but then nothing will happen. More »

Pretec's 8GB SD 2.0 Memory Card

Pretec will release an 8GB SD 2.0 (SDHC) memory card before the end of the year that will have access speeds of up to 20MB per second. Unlike SD cards using the old SD 1.0/1.1, cards following the SD 2.0 standard won't have a 4GB size limit. Chalk this up to a new method of allocating space on the drive: whereas the 1.0/1.1 standard used something called byte addressing, the new standard allocates space using sector addressing. Perhaps not the most compelling information, but it's not every day that a Dell laptop explodes. More »

Panasonic SDR-S150 SD Camcorder Has Triple Sensor, But Only MPEG-2

Panasonic is updating their flash memory based camcorder...kind of. Like its predecessor, the SDR-S100, it'll use its three chip array to individually capture red, green, and blue light. And it'll forgo the more recent MPEG-4 format for the MPEG-2 format, presumably to make DVD transfers quick and dirty. (Don't quote me on that part, please.) It also has the same image stabilizing feature, and a similar Leica lens. So what's new? It'll go for $999 instead of $1200, and it'll support SDHC— the high capacity SD memory cards that go up to 4GB. We like that, especially since MPEG-2 is hoggier than MPEG-4. A card that big will give you 3 hours and 20 minutes of recording time. According to our friends at Panasonic, it'll be ready for a US launch in September. – Brian Lam More »

Elecom PCMCIA Card Reader With SDHC

Instead of lugging around a separate card reader with your laptop, why not buy this Elecom MR-PCA12 PCMCIA card reader that slides directly into your laptop. The card supports SDHC, SD, MMC, smart media, memory stick, memory stick pro, xD, miniSD, microSD, microSD, RS-MMC, RS-MMC 4.0, memory stick duo, and memory stick pro duo—though some need adapters. More »