Kingston Develops New, High-Speed MicroSDHC Memory Card

It seems that some movement can finally be seen on the IT market, as some new products are coming out, albeit not in as high a numbers as some might hope, with Kingston being one of the most recent to present a new invention.

While the mobile industry is getting quite a healthy influx of new releases, what with CTIA Wireless 2011, the rest of the market seems to have slowed down a bit.

Certainly, Buffalo, Sapphire and NVIDIA seem to be going about their business, but most attention has been focused on how the Japan disaster hits things hard enough to threaten even Intel's ability to make more advanced CPUs.

It was also implied that tablets loaded with Android 3.0 have a chance to end up as more damaging to their makers' finances than helpful.

Fortunately, Kingston stepped up and drew attention away from such bleak thoughts by delivering its newest, high-speed memory card.

One could say that this is more of a mobile market release, since microSDHC cards end up in mobile phones, tablets and cameras. Nevertheless, this made the company's press release no less enthusiastic.

The memory card complies with the SD Card Association specification and bears the Class 10 rating, featuring speeds of at least 10 Mbps.

Available capacities are of 4 GB, 8 GB and 16 GB, while an adapter lets them act as full-size SDHC cards, should this be required.

“Kingston’s Class 10 microSDHC cards are compatible with many of the latest mobile phones including Android smartphones and BlackBerry devices, hi-def cameras and the increasingly popular tablet PCs,” said Mike Kuppinger, Flash card business manager, Kingston.

“The Class 10 speed provides faster data transfer rates and the various capacities help satisfy storage needs for users with both light and heavy memory needs.”

The cards, with or without SD adapters, are priced at between $22 and $139.