I don’t worry just about battery life on my devices; I also fear storage won’t be enough. Unlike battery life, storage is hardly an issue, yet I always consider getting more local storage than I need. So when I saw Samsung’s new microSD announcement on Wednesday, I was curious to see what this next-gen of microSD cards can no.
It turns out that Samsung will do something not usually expected from microSD cards. The new SD Express microSD card will deliver speeds of up to 800MB/s, which is faster than SATA SSDs that go up to 560MB/s. Additionally, Samsung announced its first 1TB microSD cards, though these models won’t support the same speeds.
What’s interesting in all of this is that Samsung pitches these microSD cards as “differentiated memory solutions required for tomorrow’s mobile computing and on-device AI applications.” However, the Galaxy S24 flagships, which come with Galaxy AI powers and on-device AI features, can’t take microSD storage. Like other flagship Android vendors, Samsung dropped microSD support years ago.
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