The Shadow takes microSD cards, which is fine for sizes up to 4GB, but once you get above that, the format changes to microSDHC (which stands for Secure Digital High Capacity). The difference is that in order to achieve higher capacities, microSDHC has a slightly different memory addressing method than microSD and a theoretical maximum size of around 1TB. That’s a lot of storage. To learn more about SD memory card formats, check out the article at Wikipedia.
You may be wondering if you the Shadow is compatible with this different type of memory, and as reported by forum user Picasosz, they are. He is using an 8GB microSDHC card to store a handful of music and several movies on his Shadow. Right now, you can buy an 8GB SDHC card for about $119 over at the AllShadow.com Store.
December 13th, 2007 at 9:44 am
4GF SDHC card (A-DATA clas 6) works as well
December 14th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Technically, I believe the SD spec tops out at 2 GB (and even that takes a trick that not all readers support), not 4 GB. You can get 4 GB cards that aren’t SDHC, but I’ve read that they don’t conform to the official SD spec.
Also, unless things changed, I read that the SDHC format maxes out at 32 GB, not 1 TB. Wikipedia wasn’t clear on that, mentioning both 32 GB (maybe as the largest announced size so far) and a theoretical maximum of 2 TB.
Regardless, I doubt we’re going to be running media servers on our devices for a while….
December 14th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Haha. Thanks for the clarification, Steve.
You mean — you can’t find a use for 1TB of data on your phone?
January 31st, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I just got a 8GB SDHC and it works fine. I have all sorts of thing save here, and it is awesome. I will be adding more…
So from personal experience i know it works fine. And you can find them really cheap on ebay, and you can receive it in about a week.
February 18th, 2008 at 12:00 am
CORRECTION, the shadow doesn’t use micro sd. it uses Micro SDHC. and is compatibile with ALL micro SDHC cards. BUT…the larger the size, the longer it takes to access information ESPECIALLY if you have 7 GB of USED memory of a
April 7th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
i am alright withy the 1gb microsdhc card i have in my phone, but i may get a 4gb later on if i start to get out of hand with music and vids, and more files
May 20th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Elijah, how much longer does it tack to access the saved data? and, to all, is it worth getting the 8gb card as opposed to the 4, 2 and 1gb cards? besides as a possible status symbol?