SD Card Association announces Embedded SD |
Many portable electronic devices that are used today store data from office documents to music and video files using SD storage in the form of full-size SD cards and microSD cards. The association that promotes the SD format — the SD Card Association — announced a new standard today for Embedded SD storage.
The new standard would allow manufacturers to embed SD memory inside devices like cameras, phones, and MP3 players. The new specification allows makers to build devices that have internal and external storage using the same specifications.
Using the Embedded SD specification makers could put up to 32GB of internal storage into a device and have up to 32GB of external storage via SDHC cards as well. The specification defines the electrical and mechanical framework for embedding the storage. There is no word on when devices will show up using Embedded SD at this time.
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What a unique idea. Have a singular format imbedded that would work with many devices. I’m tired of so many different formats.
SD cards are so awesome. 4 and 8GB cards are insanely cheap.
And I’ve noticed that it’s always been cheaper to get an MP3 player that plays from SD cards + an SD card than to get an MP3 player with the same amount of internal memory.
Also I remember the Palm LifeDrive had an internal harddrive, which some hackers replaced with an internal CF card. The result was better performance and battery life.
So this must be good.