Nokia provides a 1 GB microSD alongwith all the N95s sold in India. Eventhough 1 GB is good enough if you are going to store only images shot from the camera, if you are planning to replace your mp3 player with the N95, probably you need more storage. I searched for a 4GB microsd all of Bangalore, but could not find one. There was no one selling it in Ebay India too.
On the other hand, I could see plenty of sellers selling the Sandisk 4GB microSDHC in Ebay UK starting at a killer price of 25 UK pounds. Most of them were providing worldwide shipping too. Though I had some bad experiences in the past when I ordered electronics from abroad, I took a small risk and ordered one. That was on thursday evening (9th August) India time. I was expecting delivery in about 10 working days. Guess what? I had the item delivered at home on Monday morning (13 Aug). That means I waited for only one working day for the item to be delivered from UK through Royal Mail. It can't get better than this.
I loaded all my favorite music from the iTunes library into the new microSD card. The 1 GB card shipped with my N95 is happily serving in my Nikon D40 now.
By the way, don't be fooled by Nokia's specification which says that microSD cards upto 2 GB are supported. There are reports which say that prototypes of 8 GB microSDHC working like a charm in the Nokia N95.
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Kev (UK) 09.04.07 at 9:34 am
Jag, you mention in your review of the 4GB card that Nokia are only saying up to 2GB and I notice from you “My Two Cents” web/blog that you have used a HTC Wizard/O2 XDA mini s. Do you know what card size the Wizard will cope with ? I have a 512Mb card that I am now using as the 4Gb card I have kept corrupting. I keep getting the “Unable to display the attachment” message. HELP - Cheers - Kev
Jaganath 09.04.07 at 10:26 am
Hi Kev,
I havent tried beyond 1 GB on a O2 Mini S. You should be able to use upto 2 GB since they are normal SD cards (not the SDHC variety).
4 GB cards are supported after firmware update on N95! Effectively, the new firmware enables "SDHC" support on N95. Since the HTC wizard does not support SDHC, you will not be able to use 4gb (and above) on HTC Wizard.
-Jaganath