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Sony Says Proprietary Memory Format for Vita Prevents Piracy

Hardware maker and video game publisher Sony Computer Entertainment has said that the proprietary memory cards that will be sold for the upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld are designed as a means to eliminate any potential for piracy on the device.Muneki Shimada, who is one of the developers working on the new hardwa...

5 December 2011
16:41 GMT

PlayStation Vita Memory Cards Prices Revealed by GameStop

Specialist video game retailer GameStop has revealed the price that gamers will have to pay in order to get their hands on the proprietary memory cards that the new PlayStation Vita handheld from Sony will use when it is launched early during 2012.The company says that the smallest of the memory cards will cost 29.99...

28 November 2011
16:41 GMT

Prices Revealed for PlayStation Vita Memory Cards

Video game hardware maker Sony has confirmed at the Tokyo Games Show that the Japanese launch date for the PlayStation Vita handheld is set for December 17 an that the device will start selling with 24,980 Yen when it is out.And now the company has also begun talking about the memory cards that interested gamers will...

20 September 2011
03:33 GMT

95 MB/s SDHC UHS-I Memory Cards Introduced by Panasonic

Panasonic has released some pretty OK SDHC cards to accompany its numerous digital cameras over the past couple of years, and now, the company's back with yet another such product, namely a series of UHS-I Memory Cards.Without a doubt, Secure Digital memory cards have become a lot more popular these days than th...

8 March 2011
15:01 GMT

Industrial-Grade SD/SDHC Memory Cards Announced by Green House

Although we typically associate the concept of a SD and/or SDHC memory cards with digital cameras, the truth of the matter is that these storage media are used for a much wider array of purposes, and that's exactly the reason why Japanese company Green-House has just introduced a new line of such memory cards, t...

31 January 2011
04:01 GMT

New 32GB microSDHC Memory Card Launched By Silicon Power

Given the fact that the amount of content available for smartphone owners nowadays is quite impressive, the need for extra storage space becomes more and more dire, and that's exactly the reason why Silicon Power has just officially released yet another addition to their series of microSHDC memory cards, this ti...

18 January 2011
08:38 GMT

New 128GB 600x CompactFlash Card Released by Atremex

The need for improved performance and more storage space seriously manifests itself in the memory cards' segment as well, larger and faster CF cards, such as the brand new 128GB 600x CompactFlash card from Axtremex, making their way onto the market over the past few months.As PhotographyBlog reports, the new sto...

17 January 2011
15:01 GMT

New Kingston SDHC UHS-I UltimateXX Memory Card is Really Fast

Without a doubt, photographers and videographers who really want to push their digital cameras or camcorders to the limit require some ultra-fast memory cards that will help them achieve this goal, and that's exactly the type of product Kingston released at CES 2011, namely the SDHC UHS-I UltimateXX memory cards...

12 January 2011
04:18 GMT

128GB, 100MB/s CompactFlash Card Launched by SanDisk at CES 2011

The advanced photo and video cameras currently available on the market require plenty of space for storing HD videos or large-size photos, not to mention some high data transfer rates as well, and that's exactly the reason why SanDisk brought to this year's CES a brand-new CF card model, delivering extreme ...

6 January 2011
02:00 GMT

Sony Outs 3 New SDHC Memory Card Series

Although Sony is best-known for its proprietary memory card format, the MemoryStick (and its several variants), the company seems to have fully acknowledged the very high level of popularity SD cards enjoy nowadays and rolled out three new SDHC memory card ranges, designed to work with most of the compatible products...

13 December 2010
04:14 GMT

Windows Phone 7 Doesn't Love MicroSD, Supports 'Mass Storage' Mode

Windows Phone 7, the latest flavor of Microsoft's mobile operating system, comes to the market with a series of rather interesting features when it comes to the possibility to expand the available storage space on a device running under the platform. As reported ever since the operating system was still in the ...

19 November 2010
10:13 GMT

CompactFlash Cards Getting TRIM, 167 MB/S Speeds with Latest CF 6.0 Specification

Although CF (CompactFlash) memory cards seem to be loosing ground, compared to their Secure Digital (SD) counterparts, the truth of the matter is that there are still certain specific areas (such as that of high-end DSLR cameras), where this standard reigns supreme.For this reason, the fact that the CompactFlash Asso...

19 November 2010
03:10 GMT

Hoodman Raw Steel SD Card is Steel-Plated, Eyes Iron Man

We should face it by know, consumer electronics manufacturers from all over the world will do just about anything in order to get you to purchase their products, going as far as rolling out certain products that will prove useful for some pretty petite market niches, and that's exactly the case with the photo ac...

12 November 2010
08:13 GMT

Samsung Rolls Out Its Own-Branded Memory Cards

Samsung, one of the world's leading vendors of consumer electronics and storage products, has recently announced, in Taiwan, the introduction of its premium Samsung memory cards. Designed to compete with similar products from the likes of SanDisk, Kingston and others, the new Samsung-branded memory cards are ava...

16 October 2009
04:21 GMT

Sony Ericsson to Adopt MicroSD for Future Phones

It seems that Sony Ericsson users will no longer face compatibility problems with the memory cards that work with their handsets, as the company is determined to move forth towards using MicroSD memory cards in its future mobile phones, starting with the recently announced Sony Ericsson Satio, Aino and Yari. As man...

3 June 2009
09:50 GMT

Toshiba Unveils 16GB microSDHC Cards

Toshiba Corp., a leading developer of memory card technologies and solutions, along with its subsidiary Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., has unveiled the latest addition to its memory card offering, the 16GB microSDHC products, which deliver the largest capacity available on the market. Moreover, the comp...

27 November 2008
06:03 GMT

128GB microSDHC Cards on the Way

Bigger is always better, or so they say. This always applies when it comes to storage space though, and it seems that the SanDisk Corporation, inventor of flash storage cards, is on its way of proving that once more. The company has already made available, last month, the 16GB microSD and M2 memory cards. Now, i...

21 October 2008
05:34 GMT

Fujifilm Intros Four New SD Cards, Including 16GB SDHC

It's quite a well-known fact that modern digital cameras are now capable of taking shots at very high resolutions (which, unfortunately, occupy quite a hefty amount of space), while camcorders capable of shooting in High Definition and storing the videos onto flash memory cards are already pretty mainstream. Tha...

30 September 2008
01:43 GMT

Lexar Pushes Speed Of Its CF Cards to 233X

It looks like Lexar has had quite a lot of surprises in store for this year's Photokina. After announcing the launch of a Kodak-branded SDHC card and adopting Eye-Fi technology for one of its own cards a short while ago, the flash memory manufacturer has just announced a significant improvement to its Profession...

24 September 2008
15:21 GMT

SanDisk Presents Faster, Larger Extreme IV CompactFlash Cards

Photokina is not only an event where the most important names in digital photography showcase their products, but it's also a very good opportunity for memory card makers to announce new and improved models, designed for the various camera segments out there. We've seen yesterday some pretty interesting ann...

24 September 2008
03:01 GMT

Pretec Develops World's Largest and World's Fastest CompactFlash Memory Cards

As some of you might remember, Pretec launched back at CES one of the world's largest CompactFlash cards, providing 48 GB of storage space. Then, at CeBIT 2008, one of the company's representatives talked to Softpedia about the speed of their cards, which was far superior even to SanDisk's most impress...

23 September 2008
15:01 GMT

Firmware Update Doubles Transfer Speeds of Eye-Fi Wireless Memory Cards

We've recently informed you that Eye-Fi had entered a partnership with Lexar, the latter adopting the former's wireless technology for one of its own cards. However, that hasn't stopped Eye-Fi from updating its offerings, and the company has just announced at Photokina that it will make some enhancemen...

23 September 2008
10:22 GMT

Lexar Introduces Kodak-Branded 16 GB SDHC Card

Cross-promotions between digital camera makers and memory card manufacturers have always enjoyed quite a high level of success, and that's simply because, typically, most users also purchase a memory card whenever they go shopping for a new digital camera. And that's also the case with the Lexar – Kod...

23 September 2008
10:21 GMT

Eye-Fi Adopted by Lexar, Becomes Shoot-n-Sync Wi-Fi Memory Card

Some of you might remember that, a while back, a start-up company called Eye-Fi has launched what everyone considered at the time to be an absolutely revolutionary product, namely an SD card with built-in wireless communication capabilities. Back at CES 2008, the company announced a partnership with memory giant Lexa...

19 September 2008
02:06 GMT

SanDisk Intros Ultra-Fast, 32GB Extreme III CompactFlash Card

Flash memory is becoming the favorite storage media for a lot of devices nowadays, including here professional video cameras (while digital photo cameras have used it since they first appeared on the market). For this reason, SanDisk, one of the world's largest manufacturers of flash-based storage solutions, has...

12 September 2008
15:51 GMT

Embedded SD Memory to Appear Soon in Portable Devices

The SD (Secure Digital) is among the world's most popular types of memory card formats, if not the most popular. The number of electronic devices that use SD cards for storage purposes is absolutely huge, and that's the reason why the SD Card Association has decided to make a step forward in the format'...

12 September 2008
03:16 GMT

SanDisk Extreme III Breaks SDHC Speed Record, Reaches 30MB/s

Generally, memory card manufacturers tend to launch new and enhanced memory cards long before the digital cameras actually capable of taking full advantage of their features arrive on the market. However, that's not the case with SanDisk, who, in order to compliment the launch of Nikon's D90, has just annou...

26 August 2008
17:51 GMT

Kingston Bumps Its SDHC Memory Cards to 32 GB

SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) memory cards have come to replace the old SDs, providing both higher storage capacities and transfer speeds for just about any type of device, ranging from digital cameras to portable music players. And even if there are relatively few users who actually do need so much storage spa...

13 August 2008
05:36 GMT

SanDisk Goes for Apple's Neck...Sort Of

Apple's iTunes service represents probably the best-known method of music distribution, next to the CD and DVD, of course. However, it would seem that the people over at SanDisk are seriously considering a whole new approach to this concept, as they've announced that the company will promote DRM-free music ...

20 March 2008
14:51 GMT

Panasonic Announces the World's First 20MB/s, 32 GB SDHC Memory Card

Everyone seems to be hopping onto the SDHC bandwagon these days, as the most important names in the industry keep rolling out all sorts of "world's firsts", whether we're talking about storage space or transfer speeds. And one of the latest such announcements comes from none other than Panasonic, who has j...

13 February 2008
12:51 GMT

Kingston Also Rolls Out a New SDHC, "Just" 16 GB Though

Since all modern digital cameras require a memory card for storing photos, memory card manufacturers are also tightly connected to the digital photo industry and thus to PMA2008. So, it's actually no wonder that some of the respective companies, including here the people over at Kingston, used this opportunity i...

1 February 2008
13:41 GMT

SanDisk Boosts SDHC Lineup, Reaches 32 GB, 50 Percent Faster Access Speeds

Every major name in the industry (well, at least from those segments related to digital photography) is making some sort of announcement nowadays, as they can't simply leave PMA2008 go by without taking advantage of this golden marketing opportunity. And one of the latest to join this announcement frenzy is SanD...

1 February 2008
02:10 GMT

Transcend Rolls Out a 32GB 133X CompactFlash Card

Although most professional photographers would rather pack several 4 GB CF memory cards than a single, large capacity model (for fear of possible breakdowns), the most important manufacturers of such storage products keep pumping larger and larger versions on the market, probably in a competition among themselves rat...

21 January 2008
13:06 GMT

CES 2008: SanDisk's Storage Products Offer Higher Speeds, Larger Capacities

Although this year's CES has come and gone, we'll keep informing you for a while longer regarding the various products the most important names in the industry have come up with at this international fair. So, after reading quite a few things about SanDisk's products lately, it's about time to tak...

11 January 2008
07:16 GMT

CES 2008: Lexar Lets the Memory Cards and SSDs Roll

As expected (or, better said, pretty much like everyone else in the industry), Lexar has come up with quite a few novelties for this year's CES. Some of the announcements are related to the company's collaborations with Kodak and Disney, one to its Crucial brand, while another to a very important upgrade t...

10 January 2008
03:26 GMT

CES 2008: Sony Intros 16GB Memory Stick PRO Duo Memory Card

Sony has started this year's CES with several A/V-related announcements, including here quite a large number of handheld camcorders that can record directly in HD format. And in order to complement this line-up, the Japanese company has also introduced a Memory Stick PRO Duo memory card which sports a whopping 1...

7 January 2008
09:31 GMT

Transcend's Got A 16GB SDHC Card Coming Our Way for 139 Euro (200 US Dollars)

It seems that 16 GB is be the new milestone in memory cards nowadays, as every major manufacturer of such memory storage solutions is rolling out its own version. Thus, after we've talked about Ritek and Delkin launching last week their 16 GB UDMA Compact Flash memory cards, Transcend has provided some interesti...

10 December 2007
13:41 GMT

Yet Another "World's Fastest" 16GB UDMA CompactFlash Card Hits the Shelves

Although 16 GB UDMA CompactFlash cards are not exactly growing on trees, it seems that they're becoming increasingly popular among semi-pro and professional photographer, due to their high access speeds, large capacities and, more importantly, to the emergence of digital cameras that can actually take advantage ...

7 December 2007
08:50 GMT

Ritek Rolls Out Family of Ultra High-Speed, Large-Sized Compact Flash (CF) Cards

Compact Flash (CF) memory cards are perhaps the second most important "must have" item in the arsenal of any serious photographer, since this is the format used by most high-end digital cameras currently available on the market. Moreover, having a speedy CF can prove to be quite an advantage for the photographer, and...

6 December 2007
09:11 GMT

Samsung Unveils World's First 30nm-class 64Gigabit NAND Flash Module

Samsung is the world's largest supplier of NAND Flash memory modules and in order to maintain its position, the company's constantly trying to improve on the design of its chips, besides trying to make the manufacturing processes more efficient. And yet another proof of Samsung's sustained efforts come...

23 October 2007
06:06 GMT

"All Your Memory Cards Are Belong To Us!" Say the Japanese from Elecom

Memory cards are among the most popular flash-based storage solutions around, as they pack quite a lot of storage capacity in a very slim and portable form factor. Nevertheless, working with a large number of various formats can prove to be quite a difficult task and this is the reason why the Japanese company Elecom...

26 September 2007
03:31 GMT

A-DATA's New Memory Cards Are Roomier than Old HDDs

Flash-based memory cards have become extremely popular over the past few years, as they provide very large data storage capacities in extremely small and portable form factors. And that seems to be exactly the case with A-DATA's latest offering, a trio of memory cards that provide huge storage spaces, even accor...

5 September 2007
08:26 GMT

SanDisk Ups the Ante, Launches 4GB SDHC Plus and 8GB Memory Stick Pro Duo Cards

As it considers itself to be the world's largest manufacturer of flash data storage card products, SanDisk has to constantly live up to its name and launch upgraded products that will answer the consumer's demands for increasingly higher data storage capacities. And that's exactly what the company seem...

3 September 2007
03:31 GMT

OCZ Launches Its Own Line of microSD Cards - Up to 66X Transfer Speeds

It's becoming somewhat of a trend among memory makers to come up with their own Flash-based memory storage devices, including here USB drives or memory cards. And it seems that the people over at OCZ have decided to join this very competitive market, as they've just announced the release of their microSD me...

28 August 2007
09:21 GMT

Toshiba Intros Three SDHC "Godzillas": 32 GB and 16 GB SDHC, 8 GB microSDHC Memory Cards

SDHC (or Secure Digital High Capacity) memory cards are becoming increasingly popular among consumers, especially due to the fact that they provide very large storage capacities, as well as fast access and read/write speeds. And one of the latest announcements regarding this particular area of the storage products ma...

22 August 2007
09:46 GMT

Kingston Rolls Out Super-Small, Super-Fast miniSDHC Memory Cards

As the customer demand for products that provide very high storage capacities in quite a small form factor has seriously increased over the past few years, more and more memory makers come up with new and advanced solutions meant to satisfy that demand. And one of the latest such companies is Kingston, who has just a...

14 August 2007
06:56 GMT

SanDisk Launches World's First 6 and 8 GB microSDHC Memory Cards

It seems that the competition on the memory cards' market is getting tougher and tougher, as manufacturers rush to roll out such storage solutions with increasingly high capacities, reaching limits that seemed to be just fiction only a few years ago. And the latest announcement of this type comes from SanDisk, w...

28 June 2007
15:56 GMT

Toshiba Extends microSDHC Line-Up with a 4GB Model

Memory cards represent the storage solutions of choice for a large number of portable devices, as they provide relatively large storage spaces in a very small and reliable form factor. And considering the fact that data storage space and access speeds are extremely important nowadays, Toshiba has added yet another mo...

27 June 2007
01:17 GMT

SD Memory Cards Will Soon Turn Wi-Fi

SD memory cards are currently among the most popular storage solutions for a large number of portable devices, ranging from digital cameras to mobile phones and PDAs. However, in order to transfer data, said cards must be either inserted into a card reader or the devices they're providing storage for must be con...

12 June 2007
05:36 GMT

16GB SDHC Cards from Kingmax Spotted in the Wild

SDHC memory cards represent the future of the Secure Digital format, as they have provided very high storage capacities while retaining the same physical dimensions. The number of manufacturers that jumped aboard the Secure Digital High Capacity bandwagon is quite high, one of them being the Kingmax company, who is s...

8 June 2007
07:31 GMT


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