Transcend Launches Class 10 MicroSDHC Cards

Class 10 microSDHC card provides speeds up to 20 MB/s

Transcend has launched a range of Class 10 microSDHC cards in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB capacities. The cards retail at a suggested price of Rs. 800 for the 4GB model, Rs. 1,300 for the 8GB model and Rs. 3,800 for the 16GB model. Measuring 11mm x 15mm x 1mm, Transcend's Class 10 microSDHC memory cards are only one tenth the size of an SDHC card. Being Class 10, the diminutive SD 3.0 specification complaint microSDHC cards offer transfer speeds up to a maximum of 20 MB/s. That comes handy in smartphones, most of which now support HD recording and that can be a bandwidth hog.

The microSDHC card is also backward compatible with SDHC slots when you slot them inside provided SDHC card adapter. While variables like encoding standards, file formats, bit-rates and image quality settings will dictate the size of the media, The 16GB microSDHC cards can typically store up to 6552 pictures (based on 5 megapixel JPEG compression format), over 88 hours of standard quality video (MPEG-4 video at 384 Kbps), or 240 minutes of HD video (AVCHD at 9 Mbps), just so you get an idea.

All Transcend's SDHC and microSDHC cards are supplied with a limited lifetime warranty, which has never made sense to us, because in our heads limited lifetime warranty essentially means that the product is covered as long as it works. Doesn't that translate into no warranty at all? Jokes aside, lifetime warranty essentially means that the product is covered for the time the product exists in the market, although that is still subject to terms and conditions dictated in the warranty documentation, which ironically isn't available till you buy the product.