I read a blog post on Engadget today about Panasonic’s latest Secure Digital (SD) card, a 16GB SDHC. That really got my thinking about my first ever SD card, which was a 16MB Panasonic that I received free with my Palm m505 in 2000. At the time, 16MB seemed more than enough for all my photos and ebooks. 16GB these days will get quickly filled up with movies and large files.
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Is your Treo 650 smartphone showing its age? My own Treo has plenty of scuffs and scratches — after all, it’s been heavily used (not to mention clumsily dropped many times) for almost 2 years. If you’re planning to use your Treo 650 for a while longer, why not get a replacement housing for it?
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Since we know that the new Treo 680 smartphone can use the high speed, high capacity SDHC expansion card, it really was a matter of time before our Treo hackers got into the code. There apparently has been some success in transferring the necessary SDHC software drivers from the Treo 680 to the Treo 700p and Treo 650.
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Here’s another reason to buy the new Palm Treo 680 smartphone : it supports the new SDHC format. SDHC (SD High Capacity) cards are the next evolution of the popular SD (Secure Digital) format expansion cards that we have seen being used in Palm handhelds and smartphones since the Palm m505 days. Some folks at the Treocentral discussion forums have reported success using the higher capacity, 4GB and 8GB SDHC cards on their Treo 680 smartphones.
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