Brief Review: SanDisk Powered Nokia N82 8GB Edition

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 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 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 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:

About The Author

Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

Mark Guim

“Let us see how long it takes to move 3.5 GB of pirated Happy Hardcore and DNB music directly to the card”

lol at the pirated comment.
Steve_R

Wow, that is some difference between the card reader & USB! I knew USB was slow, but that slow???!!!!

Thanks
Stefan Constantinescu

yea they need to fix that.
Blubb

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.
Stefan Constantinescu

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.
Chris

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!
LAD

but how about the speed of the mobile while using micro 8gb ?
Chris

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.
Mandeep

hey man i want to know that after completely filling 8gb card with music, does the mobile hangs?
John

So is it really slower when you copy the data with usb?
babai

very good
gamer

but how about the speed of the mobile while using micro 8gb ?
TD Games

Very helpful information!
Thank you indeed!