How to choose the right memory card

If you believe that your phone does not have enough internal memory, you can increase its capacity by using a memory card, in case your phone supports it. The right memory card is not easy to find and market is full of large number of brands, types, memory cards of different capacities and all of that can be petty confusing. If your phone supports memory card, you can choose among two standard cards: micro SD and micro SDHC.

Best Memory Card Solution

Many smartphones today come in a variety of versions, offering a lot of internal storage space, but for those who like taking videos in full HD, memory card is a must, since these files require a lot of space. The best solution for your mobile phone is to choose the largest memory card which usually comes with a capacity of up to 64 GB, and they are just perfect for video shooting.

As for the cheaper handsets, they often come with little storage space, in which case the use of memory cards is essential, in order to store more photos, video and music files.

Memory Card Advantages

One of the important memory card benefits in the mobile phone is their effect on video quality. Since slow memory cards have a bad influence on the video quality, it is recommended to use a card with a higher speed, which can greatly contribute to the videos you store. Mobile phones tend to cache data before printing, and when it happens high speed can be very useful so the entire process can run smoothly. In order to avoid video quality problems, it is recommended to choose Class 6 memory card-the higher the class, the better the video quality. The same applies to the performance, because a memory card can affect your entire phone's speed, which rather makes sense, since a part of your mobile content is already on the card.

Standard microSDHC Card - Class 6 – 32GB from Samsung

Memory Card Sizes and Capacities

Memory cards for mobile phones can be divided into three categories - Micro SD, Micro SDHC and Micro SDXC. The names indicate their sizes so the memory cards are classified this way:

* Micro SD card: 2 GB;
* Micro SDHC card: from 4 to 32 GB
* Micro SDXC card: from 64 GB and more

Memory Card Classes

Memory cards can be also distinguished by their speed class, so they are divided into four classes: Class 2, Class 4, Class 6 and Class 10. These numbers refer writing speed in megabytes.

* Class 2 means the card can write data with 2 megabytes per second
* Classes 4 and 6 show how fast the card can write data to a partially filled card
* Class 10 indicates writing speed of 10 megabytes per second, which means higher speed as well.

Ultra High Speed memory card

If you thought the Class 10 memory card has the largest writing speed, you were wrong. There is also UHS-standard (Ultra High Speed) for writing speed higher than the one of Class 10. It is the fastest standard available and these cards are used by some of the most demanding smartphone users who have great content on their mobile phones that needs to be stored elsewhere.