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Transcend or Sandisk?

2 replies · 1,941 views · Started 11 October 2005

Hello!
I have just registered for this forum and I can say i found out a lot o things about my phone in a short time.
But I havent found the answer for one question.

I have a n6670 and am planning to buy a much highter memory card.
I found only a few brands:

Kingston 128MB up to 512MB, but i read on the forum that other users had problems with them, also the speed is max. 2MB/s

Sandisk 128MB to 512M but i cannot find the read and write speed anywhere on the net. just a place said minimum 1.6MB/s, but i have lost the link. saying minimum 1.6MB/s i suspect that the speed could be somewhere around 2MB/s too.

Trancend 128MB or 256MB. These are high speed, 15MB/s from the datasheet and double voltage. But unfortunetely these are out of stock and i will have to wait for them about 2 weeks.
I don't have the possibility to buy online, so these are the only options.

Now, is it worth buying a highter speed card?
I couldn't find anywhere the max speed that the phone could read or write to the card(I am curious about this too). Because, if it is not highter than 2MB/s then why buy the faster card?
I have a USB 2.0 card reader, and the difference could show up here when i use the card in it, but since this will not be too often, i wouldn't mind the slower speed.

With the card reader i have tested the speed of the card in the phone, the 64MB one. I could say it was roughly 1MB/s so, not much fast....

I hope somebody from this forum can help me solve this problem and maybe provide some answers to the questions above.

Thanks

The card speed has no real impact, because your phone doesn't have the hardware or software support for high-speed cards.

I've used both Kingston and Transcend cards without any problems (currently using a Transcend 512MB MMCmobile card).