Maybe one of the very finest advances in the smartphone evolution is the adoption of user-expandable storage. Recently that means a microSD slot which is actually capable of supporting up to 16GB of data on something the size of a pinky fingernail. In this review we have a quick look at the Kingston effort, a 16GB microSDHC card with minimum data transfer rate of 10MB / sec.

Overview
Kingston sells the card by itself, with a package that includes miniSD and regular SD adapters, and even with a brilliant tiny USB reader. This suggests the card may be employed successfully in anything from cell-phones to PCs to digicams.

The USB reader is nice for users who need to load on plenty of content to the card but might wish to bypass a slow phone interface or have a computer without a card reader. The class ten cards can be found in capacities from 4GB to 16GB, an increase in speed over the previous generation microSDHC cards and higher capacity over the microSD format.

Benchmarks
While it isn't difficult to presume that all memory cards are made equal and make a purchasing call based entirely on price, there's a performance part of the equation. For modern smartphones that are built to perform with the focus on digital media capture and consumption, access times to the primary body of storage are vital.

If all that you are using the card for is snapping photographs camera telephone photos this would possibly not be a concern, but when you start to add HD video recording to the equation transfer speeds matter.