The day has come.
Smartphones can now hold as much data as a mainstream laptop. As long as you
are willing to pay a price premium for a 1TB internal storage on your new phone
or put a 1TB microSD card inside. Yep, you read that right - 1TB microSD cards
are now a thing.
Micron and SanDisk
unveiled their microSD cards during this year's MWC in Barcelona and while
Micron brags about being the first commercially available card, the SanDisk
alternative boasts about being the fastest one.
Peak read speed is
160 MB/s vs. 100 MB/s for Micron's, but the latter beats the former when it
comes to write speeds with just 5 MB/s. The maximum write speed of the Micron
microSD card is 95 MB/s. The SanDisk microSD will be available from April for
around US$ 449 while MIcron's solution still hasn't got its pricing. It will also
come out sometime in the second quarter of this year.