The SD Association is a non-profit organization made up of around 900 companies which set out the standards for SD memory cards. They've announced the latest iteration of SD cards, SD express, which aims to provide 985MB/s transfer speeds. Even better, the maximum storage size has grown from 2TB to a huge 128TB. This comes as part of the new SD Express specification, which adds PCI Express and NVMe interfaces to support such high transfer speeds. These speeds are necessary for some of the most demanding applications. SD cards are often complained about for their speed. High speed is needed especially when it comes to recording high-quality video on a DSLR, for example.
This upgrade comes from the previously attainable 624MB/s, meaning that the SD Association has achieved a 58% increase over the previous version. SD Express will be found in SDUC, SDXC, and SDHC memory cards, and they will be backward compatible with other devices.
"SD Express' use of popular PCIe and NVMe interfaces to deliver faster transfer speeds is a savvy choice since both protocols are widely used in the industry today and creates a compelling choice for devices of all types," said Mats Larsson, Senior Market Analyst at Futuresource. "The SD Association has a robust ecosystem with a strong history of integrating SD innovations and has earned the trust of consumers around the world."
NVMe is most famous in mobile technology for being used in iPhones and provides large transfer speeds. Android phones often lean towards UFS, with the Samsung Galaxy S10 tipped off to possibly have UFS 3.0 for up to 2900MB/s.
While these SD card speeds won't really be relevant to smartphone users, they could very well be in the future. Currently, maximum microSD card read speeds top at about 160MB/s, so it stands to reason that the technology will eventually trickle down as we find better ways of compressing such high-speed technology into smaller form factors. The SD Association has released a video to explain more about SD Express, which you can check out down below.
LG X2 is the companies new budget-friendly smartphone which has been introduced in Korea. This device will be available in Aurora Black color variant and is priced at 198,000 Korean Won (approx US$ 176). This new handset will be available via four different operators in Korea starting today but nothing is known about the global rollout yet. Well, LG is set to launch many other smartphones which will be launching exclusively in South Korea.
This budget-friendly device which is dubbed as X2 from LG will come with a polycarbonate shell but from the images, we can see a lot of space is been wasted at bezel in the bottom where the capacitive touch buttons have been placed. The handset will be coming with a 5-inch HD (1280 x 720 pixels) resolutions with an IPS display. Under the hood, the device will be powered with a 1.3GHz Quad-Core Snapdragon processor coupled with 2GB RAM.
The handset will come with Android 7.1.2 Nougat operating system but nothing is mentioned about the further updates. There is a fingerprint sensor on the device to enhance the security levels and LG has provided a 2500mAh battery to power this budget-friendly smartphone. The device supports 4G LTE connectivity and has the connectivity options like Bluetooth v4.2, GPS, A-GPS, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and few more. Moreover, The device measures 144.8 x 71.9 x 8.2 mm and weighs 152 grams.
LG has provided an 8MP camera on the rear with LED flash and it will be accompanied with a 5MP selfie camera. Since it is a budget-friendly device we cannot expect the dual camera setup which has become mandatory on almost all the smartphones. Apart from these, the smartphone will have a 3.5mm audio jack and has an onboard memory of 16GB which can be extended further with a microSD card slot. Are you planning to get this smartphone from LG? Comment in the section below and stay tuned to Android Advices for more news and updates.
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