We know which one we’d rather take — but alas, we came packing the meager 4GB card in our personal phone as we sauntered up to SanDisk’s booth at a CTIA press event this evening, not that juicy 32GB bad boy right above it. At the top there you can see the silicon that goes into each and every 32GB microSDHC to come out of the foundry, and it’s pretty insane: 8 layers of 32nm 3-bit-per-cell memory. The SanDisk rep we spoke to said that other companies not capable of pulling off the 8 layer trick will be at a significant disadvantage, since they’ll need to go with a higher density at the brutal cost of a lower yield rate — and as we all know, a chunk of silicon that’s failed QA is little more than a paperweight (and not a very effective one at that). We’ll take three.

Samsung’s new 64GB flash NAND and 32GB microSD card may be the first of each to market, bringing lots more storage space to phones like the iPhone, Droid and Nexus One as well as other handheld devices. Big win! We don’t have specific information on either of the products (no pricing, availability, or speed) but we do know that mass production on the 32GB microSD card should start next month, which means with any luck we’ll start seeing them in the first half of this year. The 64GB NAND ( moviNAND , technically) has been in production since December 2009, so it should hit even a little sooner. What does this mean? 64GB iPhones (Apple uses Samsung NAND for the iPhone, so this chip could well show up in an iPhone). 32GB cards for the Droid and Nexus One.

We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget question is coming to us from David, who’s looking to get himself a boot drive that’s fast, durable, fast, reliable and fast. “I’m looking for a solid state drive, around 32 to 64GB, for use in my web server. The drive will contain my web sites and the operating system, either Windows Server 2008 R2 or Ubuntu. Large storage is handled by a separate RAID array, so capacity is not an issue

Even though we have yet to see the long-hinted 100GB and 200GB prototype Blu-ray discs as real products, TDK is looking beyond that, ready to display 320GB ten-layer platters at CEATEC 2009 that can be read and written with current blue laser technology. Key in stacking so many layers is improving the transmittance of the outermost layer as seen above - that nearly clear one on the right doesn’t require a more powerful laser to get through. The only thing we can’t see? When or if any of these will actually be released. [Via Hot Hardware ] Filed under: Home Entertainment , Storage TDK stacks 10 layers on a single 320GB disc originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds

Shortly after giving the Pro-HG Duo a similar treatment, Sony has gone and bumped up the capacity of the Pro Duo to 32GB. For those of you keeping track, that equates to around 225 minutes in full HD mode for Handycam owners. Cyber-Shot users can also get 29 minute clips in 720p. [ CrunchGear ]

What’s not to love here? Just look at that handsome blister pack , ready to mince flesh in your enthusiasm to get at Sony’s largest and most convolutedly named Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo HX. The 32GB stick is rated at 20MBps reads or 15MBps writes when using the bundled USB adapter. Imagine, had you purchased pretty much any device other than that Cyber-shot, Handycam, or Alpha shooter from Sony you could have been enjoying 30MBps read/writes from 32GB SDHC class 10 cards . Nope, no availability date or pricing announced, how could that information possibly be useful in a press release? Filed under: Storage Sony’s 32GB Memory Stick Pro-HG Duo HX proves that product naming is hard originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:28:00 EST

When it comes to claims of being the world’s first or fastest, there’s a big difference between announcing product and actually delivering it for retail. So let’s be clear, SanDisk might be announcing the world’s fastest 32GB SDHC card today, but it won’t be shipping until August. It’s not even the first 32GB class 10 SDHC card announced since Panasonic did its unveiling more than a month ago — and this is where SanDisk’s speed claims get confusing. That “class 10″ logo is supposed to be a standard means of identify the card’s speed as rated by the SD Association.

A tipster just dropped off a few internal Microsoft docs that point to a September 8 launch of the Zune HD . In addition to that, the tipster says it’s coming in 16GB and 32GB versions. All pretty logical. We already knew that the HD has Nvidia’s Tegra inside, which makes it a high powered, high performance device that can handle HD output and possibly some nice gaming. What we don’t know is what the cost of the OLED screen and the cost of Tegra will make the final price

Take it for what it’s worth (which may be nothing, quite honestly), but a bona fide “iPhone 32GB” placeholder has appeared in the ‘Coming Soon’ section on T-Mobile Austria ’s website. Generally speaking, we wouldn’t give this kind of slip too much credence, but considering that a similar slip at T-Mobile Germany was accurately foretelling two years ago, we’re cautiously optimistic that all those rumors of a more capacious iPhone are legitimate. We hate to remind you that loads of smoke generally leads to fire, but hey, June 8th ain’t too far off anyway. Larger screen cap is just past the break. [Via AreaMobile ] Continue reading 32GB iPhone placeholder appears at T-Mobile Austria Filed under: Cellphones 32GB iPhone placeholder appears at T-Mobile Austria originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 22 May 2009 05:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .

John Gruber over at Daring Fireball has a pretty good track record when it comes to Apple rumors — remember his spot-on predictions for the unibody MacBook Pro ? — so when he’s got a thing or two to say about all the next-gen iPhone chatter, we listen. While not making any promises, he does say he’d wager quite a bit on a new model coming to WWDC, with about twice the CPU horsepower (and possibly twice the RAM, too) as the current model. He also adds some credence to all that talk of video recording , but makes no mention of potential background apps and plays down any surprise tablet or “iPhone mini” cameos. He goes on to add release date would be sometime in July in 16GB and 32GB varieties