Barb's Connected World » SDHC http://digitalmediaphile.com Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:44:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Stupid Toshiba Advocates Lagging Edge Standard for SD Cards http://digitalmediaphile.com/index.php/2010/06/23/stupid-toshiba-advocates-lagging-edge-standard-for-sd-cards/ http://digitalmediaphile.com/index.php/2010/06/23/stupid-toshiba-advocates-lagging-edge-standard-for-sd-cards/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:57:38 +0000 Barb http://digitalmediaphile.com/index.php/2010/06/23/stupid-toshiba-advocates-lagging-edge-standard-for-sd-cards/ June 22 press release from Toshiba announces an effort to “ promote a new SD card that integrates Wi-Fi wireless communication with data storage capabilities. The forum, the "Standard Promotion Forum for Memory Cards Embedding Wireless LAN"* has been founded by Toshiba and Singapore-based Trek 2000 International Ltd.. ‘

But they want to make this 802.11b/g and not the faster 802.11n (which is backwards compatible with b/g.

As any photographer knows, RAW files are huge, and even the JPEGs at Fine and Super-Fine resolutions are pretty big.

Eye-FI has done it right and offers SDHC cards that utilize 802.11n.

Why in the world would Toshiba (or anyone else for that matter) want to slow people down? This may be a price based decision. I sure have no interest.

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