News & Reviews:   memory

As the latest Android now supports Adoptable storage – external storage that can extend the size of the internal storage – and even some integration SD cards into the phone itself – the Secure Digital Association, the body that governs the SD Card standard, has announced a new specification called SD 5.1 that introduces the Application Performance Class.

Samsung has just annoucned the industry’s first memory cards based on the UFS removable card standard. The new standard was finalized in March by JEDEC, an industry body that develops standards used in the semiconductor industry, and is based on UFS 2.0.

If you need more space for your stuff in your smartphone, the only way to expand it is with a microSD card. Sandisk has just introduced a beast of a microSDXD card that may catch your eye, as it has 256GB in something as small as your fingernail.