Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Memory Cards for Electronic Gadgets


The first SD Cards were introduced into the market in 2000 by the Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., this was done in collaboration with SanDisk and Toshiba. These were initially called flash cards and were used in digital cameras, handheld computers and video game consoles. With the number of new devices coming into the market, the SD cards have become more popular in recent times.

On an average SD cards measure 32 x 24 x 2.1 mm in dimension and 1.4mm in thickness. All SD cards are built with a write protected switch that takes care of unintentional deletion or addition of data. MiniSD and MicroSD are used directly in SD slots with the physical interface adapter. The average capacities of SD cards, today range from 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB. At online shopping website homeshop18.com many of the popular brands are available on the site including Sony memory card, Transcend memory card, SanDisk memory card and Kingston memory card. There are upcoming brands like Lexar also available on the site for purchase. 

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