The technology of flash has seen massive improvement as this product demonstrates.
Innovation has seen a 1000 x microSD card capacity increase in less than a decade.
Now the latest SanDisk 128GB microSD card has enough room to store 16 hours of full high definition video, 7,500 songs, 3,200 photos and more than 120 apps on a single card.
The 128GB microSD card – the highest storage capacity in a removable form form factor – can be used with a variety of devices especially Android smartphones and tablets.
And not only can the card store more data, it can also offer high performance for high read/write speeds to record and playback high resolution images and full HD video.
The microSD format was introduced in 2004 with a 128MB capacity. The ability make that capacity 1000 times larger is the result of a proprietary technique by SanDisk.
This technique allows 16 memory die to be stacked on top of each other and each shaved to be thinner than a hair.
SanDisk’s 128GB Ultra MicroSDXC card is available in stores now and is priced at $199.
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