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Kingston Shipping 32GB SDHC Card Next Week

Kim Poh Liaw — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:34:01 +0000

Kingston Digital announced the release of an SDHC Class 10 card. Shipping February 26, the Kingston SDHC Class 10 card is available in 16GB and 32GB capacities. The card meets the Class 10 data transfer rate specification but has an enhanced performance of up to 22MB/sec. read and 18MB/sec. write.

The 16GB Kingston SDHC Class 10 card (Kingston part#: SD10/16GB) has a suggested retail price of $129.00 (MSRP U.S.) while the 32GB card (Kingston part#: SD10/32GB) has a suggested retail price of $245.00 (MSRP U.S.).

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Kingston Digital Ships Speedy Class 10 MicroSDHC Card

Kim Poh Liaw — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:35:58 +0000

Kingston Digital announced the release of a 16GB microSDHC Class 10 card. The 16GB microSDHC card has a minimum data transfer rate of 10MB/sec. and ships either as a stand-alone microSDHC card or with adapters. The card will be sold at around 139 USD, comes with life time warranty and a SD adapter to use it with a SD card reader.

“With the new speed class, host devices such as high-definition cameras or the latest smartphones are being designed to optimize their write performance to take advantage of the more responsive memory card speeds,” said Wendy Lecot, Flash card business manager, Kingston®. “Now that the Class 10 card specification is five times faster than a Class 2 card, users will see swifter copying and transferring of photos, music, videos and e-books when using a multi-format card reader such as the Kingston Media Reader or MobileLiteG2 with a PC.

MWC2009: Kingston Digital Releases 16GB microSDHC Card

Kim Poh Liaw — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:00:49 +0000

Kingston Digital announced it is releasing a 16GB microSDHC Flash memory card for use in mobile phones. The larger capacity card offers greater storage options for the latest mobile phones and other digital devices and joins the microSDHC card family which includes the 4- and 8GB products.

The Kingston 16GB microSDHC card (Kingston part #: SDC2/16GB) has a suggested price of $90.00 (MSRP U.S.). Although the microSDHC card format is identical in physical size to the original microSD card, microSDHC is compatible with microSDHC host devices and not backward compatible with standard microSD-enabled devices or readers.