The advances in flash memory capacities is obscene. Back in January I bought an 8GB SDHC (Class 2) card for my Treo 680. I got this card for US$113. What a bargain!
The capacity allows my phone to act as an iPod substitute (currently about 5GB worth of songs - mOcean is quite a cool Palm app), as well as a digital photo album. The "Class 2" categorisation means it's not very fast, but this is completely sufficient for my uses. Assuming an ongoing trend of low speed, high capacity cards, I will upgrade as higher capacity cards are released. (The SDHC spec supports theoretical capacities of up to 32GB).
There is quite a premium for performance though. I read today that Microdia released a Class 6 (160x) 16GB SDHC card. For the mere price of US$3500. :)
I'll have to wait a little longer as supply and demand sort out the economics...
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