Earlier this week at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2008) in Las Vegas, SanDisk announced a 12GB microSDHC (High Capacity) card, which will be available later this year.

Sandisk also announced a 32GB version of its Sansa View Media Player. However, another 32Gb flash based media player, the Creative Zen 32GB had already been announced in November last year. This brings the capacity of flash-based Media Players in line with the previous generation of hard drive based players, which started at 30GB.

Now with the 12GB microSDHC card, you can increase the capacity of your 32GB Sansa View to 44GB, for a yet to be announced price. As for the 32GB Creative Zen, it has a SDHC (Secure Digital high Capacity) expansion slot, and the largest SDHC Card currently available is 16GB, with a 32GB prototype SDHC already being shown by Panasonic at CES this year. So the 32GB Creative Zen could be increased to a total of 48GB of storage, and in several months that would be 64GB of flash memory total. All this in a flash player the size of a credit card. In comparison, the Sansa View is large for a flash-based MP3 Player, rather like an oversized rounded version of SanDisk’s popular e200 series of MP3 Players.

Of course microSD cards are not only used in MP3 Players, but also in cellphones and cameras.

Posted on January 10th, 2008 by mervyn