Had gotten really good user reviews and benchmarks, once again not really surpassing class 6's, but there didn't seem to be many detractors or horror stories of people ordering a lexar and getting some knockoff forgery in the mail.
which card are you purchasing djblue? link goes to a list of suggested products..
I think there was a URL parsing problem -- it included the period at the end of the link.
Try this, I think it's what the link was originally intended to go to:
Newegg.com - ADATA 32GB Class 4 Micro SDHC Flash Card with V3 USB Reader (Black/Blue) Model AUSDH32GCL4-RM3BKBL
Ever click the gallery app and have to sit and wait while the app generates the thumbnails? Or view the photos and they are all fuzzy for a while until the app can fully render the detail? Get a fast one, and your thumbnails and photos load near instantaneously.
so basically the phone as is holds 12, and i can replace the 8 gb one with up to 32? I'm assuming its easy to do?
Thanks for the help
anybody see any good sales lately or have a good recommendation for a 16 or 32 one?
I just read this whole thread. One thing to keep in mind: it's not just about handling the bitstream of burst photos or streaming videos. Ever click the gallery app and have to sit and wait while the app generates the thumbnails? Or view the photos and they are all fuzzy for a while until the app can fully render the detail? That's all caused by a slow SD card. Get a fast one, and your thumbnails and photos load near instantaneously.
Not really. The math just does not hold up. Lets say that you have a 2mb picture. The class 2 card should be able to load that picture in less then 1 second. If you had a class 10 card, would load the picture in less then 1/10th of a second. The difference between 1/5th of a second and 1 second is not really processable to the human mind. And that is just the transfering speeds.
The difference in just the read times, class 2 card should beable to get about 8MBPS read time and the class 10 should be able to get about 16 MBPS.
That would take a 2 MB thumbnail ( 2MB is the same as a 8megapixel jpg) less then 1/4 of a second for the class 2 card and about 1/32 of a second for the class 10 card. Now we are way pass the ability of the humans to see the difference in the actual loading of an image.
Loading a thumbnail is even worst, given that it would be like 200KB, which would be like 1/320 of a second for class2 and like 1/1640 for a class 10, (that is just a guess).
In the real world, unless you are reading and writing massive files to the card consistency you would never be able to tell the difference between the performance of a class 2 card compared to a class 10 card. In order to notice the difference, you would have to transfer more then 2 MB files consistency between the cards.
When you have a issue with thumb nails appearing it more likely a problem with the drivers or the thumb nail has to be created, rather then a simple display.
Once again, the size of the thumb nail vs the transfer speed, the math just does not hold up.
PS, I have a ton of cards, all speeds. In the real world, I use a class 10 card only for 1080p playback, but a class 4 card works to. For simple pictures, 720p, and music, a class 2 card is faster then most of you need. On the other hand, transference large files, like 5 gigs +, you really do see the difference in transfer speed.
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