SanDisk 32GB microSDHC Makes DroidX More Comparable

By now, you should have seen the crazy DROID X marketing blitz hitting the TV/Radio/Internet/Blogsphere and if you have not updated your smartphone to the new iPhone 4, you'd be interested to know this.  Droid X is a powerful little device built by Motorola, with 1GHz processor, super large LCD and 8MP pixel, its a worthy contender to challenge the Cupertino empire.  However, by default, Droid X is only shipped with a 8GB onboard memory and an extra 16GB microSDHC card (a whopping 24GB) which is a perfectly good competition against the 16GB iPhone 4; what if you need more storage than that, like the 32GB iPhone 4 has to offer? Well, thanks to SanDisk, when you purchase a Droid X, you can pick up a 32GB microSDHC card for $99 (otherwise cost $149), that is a whopping 40GB of phone storage w/ an extra 16GB of microSDHC on the side for swappable content.

Lets do the math:
iPhone 4 (32GB) = $299
Droid X (8GB w/16GB Card) $199 + SanDisk 32GB Card $99.99 = $299

Thanks to SanDisk, Droid X is now positioned more competitively, if not better!

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SANDISK's 60-Second Mobile Video Contest

SanDisk is kicking it up a notch for your summer. Grab your video-capable mobile phone and start recording your summer vacation; then upload a 60-second video to YouTube.com/SANDISK for a chance to win some cold hard cash and cool prizes:

* One $5,000 Grand Prize Winner will be announced after the contest ends.
* Five $1,000 Weekly Prizes go to each week's best entry.
* 25 Weekly Finalists will each win a 16GB SanDisk® mobile memory card, MobileMate™ Micro Reader, and a t-shirt. That’s a total of 25 cards and 25 readers given away each week. Videos will be judged on originality, ability to capture summer spontaneity and entertainment factor.

In short, you must submit your footage by 8/10/2009 and SANDISK will do their drawing weekly. For the contest rules, visit here.

Bonus Giveaway: The Mobile Experience blog is going to giveaway a SanDisk 16GB microSD mobile memory card for its own (Thanks SanDisk for sponsoring this!). Go to Twitter.com and retweet this event: RT@MobilExperience SanDisk 60-Second Summer Mobile Phone Video Contest, win up to $5K http://bit.ly/J2rjr You must retweet by 8/31/2009!

Review: SanDisk 16GB MicroSDHC Ultra Perfects HTC G1

If there is one thing I'd complaint about my G1 is that it did not come with a good size storage on board. Outside of a 192MB of on board memory, HTC decided they'll leave it up to the phone owners to find a solution. Well, thankfully, SanDisk has been cranking out high capacity MicroSDHC memories up to 16GB for my solution. A while ago, when SanDisk was the first to bring a 16GB MicroSDHC card to the market, I gave it a go on my Nokia N95-3. This has more than enough storage to keep the my N95-3 happy with all of my requirements for preloaded GPS maps, songs, etc. During this year's CES, SanDisk introduced the first ever 16GB MicroSDHC ULTRA (MSRP $119) for high speed transfer applications, I thought it'd be perfect for my G1.

The packaging is slim and efficient as many of the SanDisk packaging are. In between the plastic and cardboard hold a tiny 16GB memory chip within a protective case as well as a small MobileMate USB reader. Its important to note that new card readers should support MicroSD (upto 4GB) and MicroSDHC (over 4GB) as well as supporting the high speed transfer rate (USB 2.0), otherwise it can render your new high capacity cards useless. Lucky for me, the reader that comes with this package is both.

I've transferred the my iTunes music collection (888 songs, 3.74GB) onto this new card very quickly using the included card reader; it took roughly 6 minutes which is faster than syncing an empty iPhone or iPod over iTunes and USB cable). I also transferred the first season of The Office (6 episodes, 788MB) which took less than a minute. I am pretty impressed with the transfer rate as well as the tiny MobileMate reader. With 16GB of high quality memory, my G1 is ready to rumble. Now my G1 can match iPhone 16GB's capacity without any sacrifice. Oh, and this always give me the ability to upgrade to 32GB in the future.

SanDisk slotRadio - Radical New Way to Digital Music

SanDisk just announced a new digital music player which solves the hassle of acquiring songs, encoding songs and sync'ing them on a portable player. How? Simply buy this player which comes preloaded with 1000 billboard chart songs that have been put in various theme-based categories like: chillout, workout, etc. The songs are loaded onto a microSD card and cannot be removed and used on other devices. However, this is really a unique solution to people without a lot of time to organize playlists and acquire new songs. Atleast for me, I find myself spend less time on iTunes arranging the songs and rating them for playback; this solution would take care of all that and results should be solid based on the Billboard charts.

The player goes for $99 with 1,000 songs pre-loaded onto a card; it features FM-radio and 1.5" OLED display (cool!). Additional 1,000 songs can be had for another $39. It also comes with a headset for real convenience.

Personally, I never have the time to research for songs to upload to my iPhone, so something like this can save me the trouble of creating personalized playlists. I like SanDisk's approach of utilizing MicroSD cards as song album. I can see a weary traveler buying these units from train stations or airports simply because they want to easy to operate and hassle free setup to some good music. (Source: Jody P. from Lyman PR)

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.

Review: SanDisk 16GB MicroSDHC Card

Monstrous capacity! Those are the words to describe the new 16GB MicroSDHC card from SanDisk, the industry's largest capacity MicroSDHC product. I went from a 4GB card to the new 16GB card, which grew my Nokia N95-3 storage space by a whopping 400%. When I was running the 4GB card, I had to keep the Nokia Map downloads to a minimal, just grabbing some of the East Coast states (NY, NJ, CT) and a few other city capitals just to save some room for music and video. Now with the new 16GB card, I am dumping the entire US GPS mapset along with 5GB worth of music I normally keep on my iPod; amazingly, there is still plenty of room to spare, I love this thing!

SanDisk's new 16GB MicroSDHC card (MSRP $99) really lives up to their marketing slogan: "Wake Up Your Phone". Amazing that my Nokia N95-3 can now really give the 16GB iPhone 3G a run for its money (with Copy and Pasting included... haha). Special thanks to Jody P. from Lyman for the news and review unit.

SanDisk 16GB MicroSD Cards Available in Oct

Just got word from SanDisk directly that the 16GB MicroSDHC and MicroSDHC M2 Cards will be available in October through Best Buy Mobile and Verizon Wireless stores.  They will be the first retailer to carry these cards.  16GB in capacity, this is by far, the largest in MicroSD forma. SanDisk hopes to enhance your mobile experience and enjoy more music, pictures, videos, and office applications in this storage device.  As you can see from the picture, its so small, yet so big.  Amazing!

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