If you spend as much time reading smartphone specs as we do (thrill a minute, we know – jealous?), you’ve probably noticed a majority of SDHC-compatible devices list their maximum supported memory card capacities at 32GB.  But smartphones use microSD memory cards, which are only currently available with – at most – 16GB of storage.  16,000 megabytes is quite a lot, but where are the 32GB cards we’ve been so anxious to fill?

We check weekly for news on the 32GB microSDHC front, and today we sorta-kinda hit potential paydirt.  In September, SanDisk began shipping flash memory cards based on a new technology called X4, which allows memory cells to store twice the data of those in previous chips.  This development will push standard SD cards to 64GB of data in the coming months.  The first memory chips using the X4 technology (Secure Digital and Memory Stick Pro DUO) are now being shipped.

So, can 32GB microSD cards be far behind?  Inquiring media packrats want to know.

Source: SanDisk X4 Press Release