Just wondering if anyone is using a 32Gb Micro SD card in their SGS2, and if so what make [brand] is it and what are your thoughts on its performance?
I have a Class 2 Sandisk card - although its Class 2 its fast enough for encoding and decoding 1080p, which is all you need. I always recommend Sandisk, although other manufacturers are decent too. The mymemory branded one is OK, I got one of those for my partners phone and she's had no worries.
Here is another forum with some posts about cards, and the benchmarks of my Sandisk and Mymemory cards -
Micro SD cards
I have a Class 2 Sandisk card - although its Class 2 its fast enough for encoding and decoding 1080p, which is all you need. I always recommend Sandisk, although other manufacturers are decent too. The mymemory branded one is OK, I got one of those for my partners phone and she's had no worries.
Here is another forum with some posts about cards, and the benchmarks of my Sandisk and Mymemory cards -
Micro SD cards
Lol, i know NZtechfreak will probably say all you need is a class 2, sandisk. But personally, any major brand should do, either class 2 or 4 maybe class 6 if you want to future proof your purchase, however you will only really see performance benifits if the card itself gets plugged into a laptop for file transfer via sdhc adapter.
I guess check out Kingston or Crucial as well as Sandisk, maybe samsung.
When are you going to benchmark the major brands with the same capacity/class cards? That would be interesting
Just looking at some 32gb cards for the GS2 and have come across one for 45 sterling's made by Dane-Elec. It says that it is not *backwards* (WTF) compatible and to make sure the device is SDHC enabled and will accept the card, before buying. Does any one know that it is in fact SDHC enbabled. Also is this a good make?
If by "it" you mean the SGS2 then yes. I has to be because there is no such thing as a 32GB SD card that is not SDHC. Consequently, any device that accepts a 32GB card of any sort must be compatible with SDHC.
SD cards work in SDHC slots. SDHC card do not necessarily work in SD slots.
Good heavens! That's some music collection you must have
The SDHC standard only goes up to 32GB. The next version, SDXC goes way higher (more than 2TB I think) and these are available now in the SD card rather than micro SD form factor.
What I don't know is whether these will work in our phone. I suspect they may not but does anyone know for sure?
Source:The Kingmax 64GB microSD XC complies with SD3.0 and Class 6 specifications and is also backwards compatible with the SD2.0 specification, the company said. Kingmax estimates the microSD cards will be able to store around 15,500 MP3 files or around 155,000 JPEG images.
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According to this thread on Engadget Kingmax flaunts world's first 64GB microSD card -- Engadget there are already 64GB SDXC cards and the hardware is basically the same. The discussion on the comments on that page suggests that there will be no hardware incompatibility. I'm not risking >
I can't image using a C2 card in this phone. The C2 8G in my Aino would not keep up with its recording on the 8MP cam it had. Maybe the video is better compressed on this one, we know it has the power to do it, or it could be buffing the video to the ram?? Any way I've decided to stick with the C10 16G card from that I using in the Aino to get smooth recording. If I update to 32G I would look to a quality C8-C10 again as I see no reason to have a fast phone having to wait longer than needed on the SD card.
There is no point in buying a card that is faster than the phone can drive and my card can keep up with video capture or play so what would be the point of spending more money on a faster card?
I do lots of transfers to/from the PC. That is where most of my media is. Phones still can't match the capacity of a PC, drives in mine are just shy of having 5TB, so I'm often rotating media in and out of my phone to keep it "fresh".The only advantage really is data transfer via a PC, if you think you'll be doing lots of that, then it may be worth it, if not, then stick with class 2-4.
I do lots of transfers to/from the PC. That is where most of my media is. Phones still can't match the capacity of a PC, drives in mine are just shy of having 5TB, so I'm often rotating media in and out of my phone to keep it "fresh".
Maybe if I get bored I can still that old C2 in there and do some pic timing test, the retest with the C10. I know that on the Aino there was a big difference in the time between taking a pic and being able to take the next. With a 2.5 year old you need a fast camera or you always miss something. Again though, this is my first venture into Android and I've not had the phone a week yet. Maybe Android uses the ram for caching better than the Aino, I don't know.
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