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Help Maximum SD card capacity?

I wonder if a firmware update will allow for larger capacities (ie 64GB) later on? hmmm

It might depend on hardware support... currently microSD supports up to 4GB, and microSDHC support from 4GB to 32GB. MicroSDXC may be required for capacities beyond 32GB. I do not know what the EVO 4G supports hardware wise, but I just wanted to point out that firmware is just one part of the equation to support 64GB and higher capacities.

Note: I have not seen an microSDXC cards anywhere, but microSD is just a sub-format of SD cards and SDXC cards are currently being produced for newer digital cameras.
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There were some firmware / driver updates for older SD card readers that allowed them to address SDHC cards. My old IBM laptop shipped with a reader that was SD ready, but later had an update that allowed it to read > 2GB cards. I believe it was the same with my PPC-6700 phone that I had before my touch pro.

Assuming the electrical contacts are the same on SDXC cards are the same as SDHC, it's feasible that a driver update could allow use of SDXC.

If it's a different physical pinout on the new cards, then no amount of driver updates will fix it :(
 
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hello, this is iowa of the future. im loving my htc evo 5g webos/android hybrid. microsd has been out dated. it is now nanosd, and has a current capacity of 1tb.



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LOL and this is TS also from the future, also loving the EVO 5G bigger brother, the Sprint HTC Voyager
5G WiMax/Lte World phone 2.0 mhz hybrid.
 
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