Brief Review: SanDisk Powered Nokia N82 8GB Edition
By Stefan Constantinescu on Friday, December 28th, 2007 at 12:13 PM PST In Accessories, Nokia
With the current dollar to euro exchange rate there was no point in me spending any money on electronic equipment in Finland. Low and behold I’m in the US for the next 2 and a half weeks and I took it upon myself to get an 8GB microSD card for my Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N82 since I already filled up my old 4GB unit. From the comfort of my bed I asked my Jaiku friends where I can buy one retail, Ricky the Symbian Guru said the Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Store and I knew there was one less than 3 miles away from my home.
Walked in, ask the lovely young girl if there are any 8GB microSD cards in stock, she brings one out for me from the back, I’m ecstatic that their SanDisk branded, she rings it up and $105.53 later here I am:
Where is the card?! I thought you would never ask:
It works just fine. You can grab the new theme I’m using from Zach over at Symbian in Motion.
How is the speed? Let us see how long it takes to move 3.5 GB of pirated Happy Hardcore and DNB music directly to the card via the full size SD adapter plugged into my Windows Vista Ultimate running Lenovo (OTCPK: LNVGY) ThinkPad’s T61 built in card reader:
I’m more than delighted. Highly recommended. 10/10
Update: Ricky asked me to post a screenshot of moving data to the card with it inside the N82 over USB. I don’t recommend you do this since it is mind blowingly slow:
“Let us see how long it takes to move 3.5 GB of pirated Happy Hardcore and DNB music directly to the card”
Wow, that is some difference between the card reader & USB! I knew USB was slow, but that slow???!!!!
Thanks
yea they need to fix that.
This isue can’t be “fixed” due the lack of high speed usb 2.0 support of the N82.
@Steve_R: The card reader was surely connected by USB, too. So you should question Nokia why they use outdated hardware in their flagship devices.
by “fixed” i meant in future models. the card reader is built into my laptop, chances are it is connected via an internal usb connection, but it may be something else. not sure.
I got myself a class 4 8gb mirco SD. And the card is very fast when using the usb mircosd reader. around 13mb sec transfer. I can movies on there etc in no time.
However using the usb cable its under 1 mb a sec transfer. Takes forever!
but how about the speed of the mobile while using micro 8gb ?
Hi there, the speed on the mobile is the same. Well it seems fast. Fast searching seek times on Divx movies with Smart Movie etc.
Its a recommend upgrade by me too.
hey man i want to know that after completely filling 8gb card with music, does the mobile hangs?
So is it really slower when you copy the data with usb?
very good
but how about the speed of the mobile while using micro 8gb ?
Very helpful information!
Thank you indeed!
i am great fan of communication devices.thanks for sharing this stuff.