News & Reviews:   SD card

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.

Many smartphones has microSD slots to support additional local memory expansion. Thanks to Android 6.0 expanded memory function, the microSD can be added as part as the system memory. To further expand your paltry 16GB/32GB internal storage, Samsung as introduced their latest entry to their EVO SD line, the EVO Plus 256GB.

Toshiba has recently announced new UHS-II SD cards in the form of the Exceria and Exceria Pro product line-ups. They follow the new UHS-II standard for currently the world's fastest write speed of 240MB per second for the Exceria Pro and 120MB per second for the Exceria. Both Exceria Pro and Exceria cards have a maximum read speed of 260MB per second. Faster read and write speeds are important for photographers who need a nearly instantaneous response from their digital camera and don't want to be slowed down by a memory card.