SD Card Association Announces Final Approval of microSD Specification
The SD Card Association (SDA), San Ramon, Calif., USA, announced final approval of the microSD specification now available for immediate use. The microSD card provides full compatibility and interoperability with current SD devices. The card is fully compatible with SanDisk's TransFlash cards and is supported in more than 40 handsets announced by manufacturers such as Motorola, Samsung, LG, Kyocera, and Sagem.In the mobile phone market, a small sized memory card is needed by handset vendors to provide memory expansion with the least impact on overall size. The addition of digital audio and cameras is driving this need for more memory in mobile phones. Conventional memory cards are, however, too big in dimensions for small mobile phone application. Hence, the SDA, with increasing focus on the mobile phone market has developed a new small sized SD card.
The SD Memory Card, along with the miniSD and now microSD cards, is the dominant memory format of choice for the wireless communications industry. The format is supported by SDA members Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sharp, Panasonic, Toshiba, NEC and other leading marketers of SD and miniSD-enabled mobile phones around the world.
