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Any plans for Palm to support >4GB cards?
RE: Any plans for Palm to support >4GB cards?
I will say not going to happen. Its a limitation of the fact that there is a 32 bit interface. I shutter at the funky ways developers would have to access the media to get at the extra space. (Hey lets go back and actually use something other than card 0!!)
Seriously, the scope of such a change is well out of the Garnet product cycle and silly with Palm's (and PalmSource/ACCESS's long since) focus on Linux.
I've long since thought that Palm would have done well to add a second media slot under the battery. This would have bought them some time. (VFS already supports this, see the T5 and the LifeDrive) Alas, they didn't. Works quite well on my Nokia N800. (Was a firmware upgrade and BAM! I can have 16GB... not that I would shell that out at this point)
Nope, time to either shop for a new device, or wait for 2009. Look at the bright side, we'll be past 32GB a card by then!
RE: Any plans for Palm to support >4GB cards?
Just like a more modern execution of the T5 or LifeDrive. And there are a fair amount of programs already two-storage-volumes-aware from the good ol' T5/LD/Clie days.
I'd personally rather see the above scenario implemented than 2 microSD card slots.
SDHC in its current form is spec'd to go up to 32gb and I imagine that'll be fairly widespread and affordble by this time next year. I would imagine that most companies will then start to put fullsize SDHC out to pasture on mainstream products within the next year or two. They'll then probably come up with an "SDHC 2.0" variant and it'll end up kinda like the "big" professional/prosumer card format for the years to come (much like how CF is now) with microSDHC being the smaller mainstream format.
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RE: Any plans for Palm to support >4GB cards?
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already? wow!
"Closer," but the smaller card technology may always lag a few Gigs behind the "old-fashioned" SD/SDHC format in size and speed (and durability and find-ability). Never figured they'd release an intermediary 6GB card - the 8GB card seems the logical step.
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**Another vote for a >100MB RAM Treo**