SanDisk Corporation announced last week the availability of its 16GB microSDHC and Memory Stick Micro (M2) mobile memory cards. These cards have the world’s largest storage capacity for mobile phones available on the Canadian market.

The fingernail-sized memory cards allow consumers to use the many storage-based features offered by today’s smartphones, such as music ans video playback, digital camera functions, as well as gaming and GPS applications. Consumers can also use the memory card in video cameras, GPS receivers or some MP3 players.

SanDisk’s 16GB microSDHC card will cost $119.99 and the 16GB M2 card will be at $169.99. The 16GB microSDHC cards will be available at Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores in December.

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This week, SanDisk announced it is now shipping an upgraded line of its SanDisk Extreme IV CompactFlash memory cards designed for professional photographers. The entire series of SanDisk Extreme IV memory cards are 12.5 per cent faster, and the new 16-gigabyte card can store two times more than the previous models of the cards.

The SanDisk Extreme IV CompactFlash cameras feature advanced technologies that are compatible with all CompactFlash cameras. Depending on the kind of camera used, the increased performance of the new SanDisk Extreme IV card may be able to reduce the delay between shots, allowing photographers to take more photos on one memory card. The new memory card from SanDisk also enables faster card-to-computer data transfer speeds.

The SanDisk Extreme IV also caters to professional photographers because of the sheer data size of the photos they typically take. Professional photographer typically shot in RAW or RAW+JPG format, which require up to ten times more card capacity than JPG images. Such capacity performance is ideal for sporting, fashion or wildlife photographers who tend to use continuous shooting mode.

The latest SanDisk Extreme IV CompactFlash card us retailing for approximately $400 Canadian.

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