Toshiba has expanded its comprehensive portable memory card range with the addition of a high capacity 2Gbyte SD card and a 256Mbyte MicroSD card targeted at mobile applications.
Toshiba Electronics Europe has used CeBIT 2006 to announce the expansion of its comprehensive portable memory card range with the addition of a high capacity 2Gbyte SD card and a 256Mbyte MicroSD card targeted at mobile applications. The company has also unveiled a limited addition FIFA World Cup branded 512Mbyte USB Flash memory device, as well as showing other key products including a 1Gbyte high speed, high performance SD card. The new SD and MicroSD cards join a family of products that Toshiba has developed to provide the market’s most comprehensive range of removable memory options for audio, video, and data applications.

The 256Mbyte MicroSD card is the first in a series of Toshiba branded products in the new format and is ideal for mobile phones and other portable electronic devices.

The 1Gbyte high speed, high performance SD card on show at CeBIT delivers a ‘write speed’ of up to 20Mbyte/s, making it ideal for professional users such as photographers requiring continuous shooting operation.

In addition to cards, the Toshiba family includes USB Flash memory, and the new limited edition FIFA World Cup branded 512Mbyte USB product has been produced to mark Toshiba’s role as an official sponsor of this year’s competition.

This special USB FIFA limited edition will be available between May and June at selected major retailers including Euronics RedZac.

Toshiba’s SD cards are available in standard and high-performance options, with high-performance products delivering data transfer rates of up to 20Mbyte/s.

Standard SD cards are now available with capacities of 256Mbyte, 512Mbyte, 1Gbyte and 2Gbyte, and high-speed cards offer capacities of 256Mbyte, 512Mbyte and 1Gbyte.

MiniSD cards feature capacities of 64Mbyte, 128Mbyte, 256Mbyte, 512Mbyte and 1Gbyte.

USB Flash memory products currently available from Toshiba provide a choice of medium- or high-speed operation and are available in storage capacities of 256Mbyte, 512Mbyte, 1Gbyte and 2Gbyte.

Medium-speed products are designed to deliver the memory storage and performance required by a variety of consumer, office and other common applications.

High-speed USB Flash memory is designed to meet the performance demands of professional and other high-end applications where speed of data storage and retrieval is a more critical consideration.

The Toshiba card range is available from a wide variety of major retailers and specialist outlets, including Media Markt and Euronics RedZac in Germany.