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Huawei's Nano Memory Cards are replacing microSD on its latest phones [theverge.com]

Alongside the slate of new phones Huawei announced today was an interesting addition: a new type of expandable storage the company is calling Nano Memory (NM), which replaces the traditional microSD card in the newly announced Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro.

Huawei says that NM cards, which are identical in size and shape to a Nano SIM card, are 45 percent smaller than a microSD card, and come in at least a 256GB storage and 90MB/s transfer speed version that the company showed off onstage.

On the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro, the NM Card goes in one of the slots on the dual-SIM tray, with users having to choose between extra storage or a second SIM card.

The SD 5.0 standard [soylentnews.org] added a 90 MB/s write speed class, intended to allow for 8K and 360° video recording.

The densest microSD cards available store 512 GB [soylentnews.org], so this 45% smaller 256 GB card could be of a comparable storage density.

Related: Samsung to Offer New Type of Flash Memory Card [soylentnews.org]
Western Digital Demos SD Card Using PCIe Gen 3 x1 Interface for 880 MB/s Read Speed [soylentnews.org]
SD Association Raises Max Capacity to 128 TB, Speed to 985 MB/s Using PCIe and NVMe [soylentnews.org]

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