The Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona is a stage to showcase cutting edge products in the field of technology. Due to the high speed internet boom, the production and consumption of digital media content has risen several folds. With the growth of digital media consumption, the  need for hardware to store this content has also risen. Two well-known names in storage solutions, Micron and Sandisk owned by Western Digital have announced the world’s first microSD cards with a whopping 1TB storage capacity. Both companies claim promising transfer speeds with the products.

The two praiseworthy storage microSD cards launched at the event [...]

SanDisk’s mammoth 200 GB microSD card, which caused a bit of a stir at MWC in Barcelona this year, is finally up for grabs. Pushing the limits of portable storage, the device has a massive storage capacity of 200GB and is claimed to have a transfer rate of 90MB per sec, or 1,200 photos per minute. As a Class 10 memory card, it is presumably geared towards photographers and filmmakers who need more space than other SD cards can typically provide.

The microSD card is also waterproof, temperature proof, shockproof, X-ray proof, and magnet proof.

Despite all the announcements made at Google I/O for the new Android M OS , Google left out a set of updates that may be slightly more crucial to some people. With the developer preview of Android M now available to those with Nexus devices, some of the new features we saw are interesting.

However, one big thing that will affect every Android phone buyer in India is the new handling of microSD storage. With Android M, all new handsets will have the ability to turn microSD card storage into system memory. This is a very big deal, especially because it will make buying a larger capacity smartphone redundant. Companies often charge premiums for higher capacity variants of the [...]

ADATA has launched their new range of microSD cards called the Premier Pro , aimed at professionals and demanding consumers, the 16GB and 32GB editions come with a 45MB/s read and 40MB/s write speeds and support the latest SD 3.0 standard.

They are expected to be available sometime in June, but the pricing remains unknown. The 8GB variant is supposedly the snappiest of the lot and has the highest access rates.

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