i'm looking to get a micro SD card for my phone, but i cant find anywhere that will tell me how much information i can get on a 1gb card. is it about the same as a 1gb mp3 player? my 1gb mp3 player holds about 500 3min songs.

12/31/2006 12:10:40 AM

Which is heavier, a pound of gold or a pound of feathers?

12/31/2006 12:11:40 AM

what he's saying is 1gb=1gb

i've been looking for a microSD card as well. they have price breaks on slickdeals.net and bensbargains.net from time to time but i havnt been able to catch one.

personally i want a 2gb card... that should hold a good bit of music and leave room for camera phone pics

12/31/2006 12:14:52 AM

technically? feathers, gold is measured using the Troy system (12oz/lb) whereas feathers are measured using Avoirdupois weight (16oz/lb)

but i get where you're coming from...thanks

i'm looking on ebay right now, they are some really cheap 2gb cards, like 50-60 bucks, if you trust the people on ebay, which i do, so far...

[Edited on December 31, 2006 at 12:20 AM. Reason : /]

12/31/2006 12:19:21 AM

Forget ebay. Just keep an eye on the forums on http://www.slickdeals.net

They have deals on SD cards about twice a week

12/31/2006 12:44:09 AM

I have a 512MB microSD card I will sell for $10. PM me.

12/31/2006 12:46:09 AM

i'm looking for 1gb at the least

12/31/2006 1:02:33 AM

Check this one out

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820134215

12/31/2006 2:10:53 AM

Quote :

"technically? feathers, gold is measured using the Troy system (12oz/lb) whereas feathers are measured using Avoirdupois weight (16oz/lb)"

self pwnt!

12/31/2006 3:05:57 AM

GODDAMMIT SPOOKYJON YOU DUMB BASTARD

12/31/2006 6:00:03 AM

jtmartin, i hope you feel honored that i am giving you a shout out in this thread...the first post was very what the fuck ish...but you came in bam second post and cleared that shit up

Quote :

"like 50-60 bucks, if you trust the people on ebay, which i do, so far..."

in summer of 04 i got a 256mb chip off ebay for like 27 after shipping(if that price sounds wrong it might have been a 128) and its still going strong after all kinds of shit

[Edited on December 31, 2006 at 8:03 AM. Reason : .]

12/31/2006 8:01:27 AM

IMO, dont pay those prices right now... you will see it drop very very quickly in the future as it always has, and youll be able to get twice the space for the same price down the road...

But then again .... I guess 60 bucks wont kill a dude.

12/31/2006 8:19:35 AM

i was thinking about waiting for a price drop as well. the 2gb i believe is the largest size commonly sold for microSD. i figured maybe i could buy a cheap 512mb and get by til i find a good 2gb deal

12/31/2006 8:34:35 AM

cc has one advertised 14 bucks for 1gb after rebates

12/31/2006 9:08:33 AM

Make sure your phone can actually address that much memory. Some of the phones have limits.
Check out this site as well, I've had luck with them in the past.
http://dealnews.com/memory/prices/mini-SD/56/2GB.html

12/31/2006 9:31:00 AM

my brothers got v3m's for christmas, and they're limited to 1gb

12/31/2006 11:06:26 AM

Check the slickdeal forums too, they had one a couple weeks ago, but I'm not sure if it's still there

12/31/2006 1:28:11 PM

yah i keep a regular eye on slickdeals.


i know with my phone (LG VX8300) it was originally limited to 1gb, but the newer firmware will allow up to 2gb

12/31/2006 4:45:26 PM

you can get a 1gb for $10 most days, i think there was a 2gb up for $16 last week

my ds haxes use them so i keep an eye out

1/2/2007 8:17:14 PM

Quote :

"i know with my phone (LG VX8300) it was originally limited to 1gb, but the newer firmware will allow up to 2gb"

did you have to go to the store to get the update?

1/2/2007 9:29:55 PM

^^I'd like to know where you do your shopping. $16 for a 2GB? I've never seen anything even remotely close to that.

Anyways, here's a sandisk 2GB for $64 shipped with a free memory card reader. That's a pretty decent price. I just ordered 2.

http://www.bensbargains.net/deal/16641/

1/3/2007 1:52:38 PM

there was a link on the fatwallet forums to a $19 2gb microSD deal. however, you should be warned that many phones do not support cards greater than 1gb. make sure your phone supports > 1gb microSD cards before wasting your money.

Quote :

"technically? feathers, gold is measured using the Troy system (12oz/lb) whereas feathers are measured using Avoirdupois weight (16oz/lb)"

There is a divverence between a Troy ounce and an Avoirdupois ounce. Troy ounces are a bit more than Avoirdupois ounces. In fact, a Troy pound is 0.822857144 Avoirdupois pounds and an ounce of gold weighs more than an ounce of feathers!

[Edited on January 4, 2007 at 1:06 PM. Reason : ]

1/4/2007 1:04:29 PM

Quote :

"did you have to go to the store to get the update?"

I just got my phone a few days before Christmas, so it has the newer firmware that supports 2gb. I was doing research about it though, and it sounds like if you take your phone in they will update the firmware for you (i think for free). You can always call the Verizon store.

1/4/2007 1:09:29 PM

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"I'd like to know where you do your shopping. $16 for a 2GB? I've never seen anything even remotely close to that."

It's all about timing and paying attention to specials. Before the holidays TigerDirect had a 2 gb SD card for less than $20 and this week they have a special to get a 1 gb SD card for $4.99. I have also seen pretty good deals in the sunday paper pretty often, someplace like Best Buy or Circuit City will have a 2 gb card for pretty cheap, like $30 or so, but they come and go with the weekly deals.

EDIT: However it looks like that is just for regular SD size, sorry guys, wasn't thinking micro...

[Edited on January 4, 2007 at 2:07 PM. Reason : ]

1/4/2007 2:05:48 PM

Yeah, I picked up a 4GB regular SD right before christmas for $40.

MicroSD is a LOT more expensive.

Also keep in mind that it helps to pay attention to where, and what brand name of flash card you buy. About a year ago I found a pretty decent deal (at the time) for a 2GB MiniSD card from an overseas online retailer I had never heard of. They claimed it was sandisk, so I figured it couldn't hurt. When it arrived it said sandisk on it, but something about it didn't look quite right. It worked for about 2 days before I could no longer get anything to read or write to the flash. After further inspection (I ripped the damn thing open), it looks like it was nothing more than a cheap chinese knockoff with sandisk labeling. IMO, it's probably worth a few extra bucks to go with name brand stuff and buy from reputable dealers.

1/4/2007 2:10:09 PM

No doubt, I had that problem too back when I was trying to find a 1 gb memory stick pro duo for my PSP a little more than a year ago, they were expensive as shit.

1/4/2007 2:14:02 PM

prices are always coming down on this type of stuff

I just picked up a 4GB Mem Stick Pro Duo for $55, no rebates


With the release of Samsung's new NAND flash technology (just announced a couple days ago), this stuff should get even cheaper QUICKLY.

1/4/2007 3:37:37 PM

it should drop but microSD cards are still expensive due to their size.. they are like smaller than your fingernail

1/4/2007 8:14:19 PM

FYI, SD, MiniSD, MicroSD are ALL DIFFERENT and TransFlash is the same as MicroSD

Just don't buy a miniSD thinking it's the same as a microSD, it's not.

1gb microSD card for $23 shipped
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820211042&ATT=20-211-042

[Edited on January 4, 2007 at 10:07 PM. Reason : .]

1/4/2007 10:05:03 PM

1GB for $20 AR

http://bensbargains.net/deal/17043/

1/8/2007 10:46:53 AM

1 GB for $5 AR

http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/detail.asp?dpno=4010230&store=ecost&source=ECOSTCJ&adcampaign=email,ECOSTCJ

1/8/2007 4:03:14 PM

^plus expensive shipping = $14 AR

$4 if you use are a new GCO customer

[Edited on January 8, 2007 at 6:58 PM. Reason : gco]

1/8/2007 6:55:49 PM