SanDisk Announces Mobile Ultra 16GB Cards

SanDisk announced the release of Mobile Ultra series of its MicroSDHC and Memory Stick Micro today. With 16GB being the market's largest and fastest product available for mobile users. Included in the announcement is the new Memory Stick Micro which is designed to be used with new Sony Ericsson smartphone like the hot Xperia X1. Sizes available includes 4GB, 8GB and 16GB.

MicroSDHC 2GB, 4GB and 8GB Becoming Cheap!

For anyone with a decent, releatively new smartphone, the best way to increase your media storage is by adding more MicroSD memory. Most new phones should even support greater than 2GB aka MicroSDHC memory. Sometimes, buying a smartphone w/ MicroSDHC support proves to be a better economical solution with the flexibility to upgrades than phones with embedded memory (ie. N95-4, iPhone, etc...). For example, I paid $500 for my N95-3 and started with a 1GB microSD I owned. I paid $35 for a 4GB microSDHC a while ago. If I have waited, the 8GB microSDHC would cost the same today. In the future I could even expand to 16GB. In the mean time, a N95-4 would have set me back at least $650, while it has 8GB internal memory, this is it for the phone, no future upgrades and when it comes time for firmware restoration, it has proven to be less convenient.

The price for MicroSD or MicroSDHC memory cards are dropping fast, take a look at the pricing points below for example. Its a great time for you to load up your phone with pictures, videos and MP3s.

Kingston MicroSD 1GB - as low as $7
SanDisk MicroSDHC 2GB - as low as $11
SanDisk MicroSDHC 4GB - as low as $15
Kingston MicroSDHC 4GB - as low as $21
SanDisk MicroSDHC 8GB - as low as $38

Possible Way to Wipe iPhone Memory Clean

Yesterday, I blogged about personal data being pulled off of refurbished iPhones due to the special type of NAND memory used on current iPhones. Today, I stumbled across an article written by Securosis.com which may bring a solution to this problem. In short, it involves the use of three very large playlists which will attempt to overwrite your memory with enough junk data essentially burying your relevant personal information. Read on to get the full scope. (Source: TUAW)

Note: this has not been professionally tested, so please be mindful as to what you should do with your unwanted iPhone.

Update 07/08/08: iPhone 2.0 Firmware to offer "Secure Erase" function.