"Approved" Cards Not Necessarily Safe For Samsung Focus

[4Nines]

I guess when Samsung said “Approved”, they did not mean “safe to use.” Apparently people that bought the 32GB Sandisk SD card to use with their Samsung Focus got a little surprise when their memory card crashed their devices. Samsung has since noticed this and called for a removal of the memory card from their stores. This does bring up a little concern however because if Samsung cannot tell what is safe for their phones, then are memory cards really as bad as Microsoft put it?

News via: WPC (Sandisk pulls "approved" SD cards for Samsung Focus | Windows Phone Central)

[Admin]

Wow what a fiasco this is turning out to be. No card is safe! Hide your cards, cuz they crashing every SD card up in heyah!

[terrykeeler]

This is the response I got today from SanDisk support when I asked about cards for the Focus:

"We would like to inform you that Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 only works with Windows 7 certified micro SD/SDHC memory card. As of now SanDisk do not manufacture any Windows 7 certified micro SD/SDHC card. We request you to contact Samsung to check which all cards are compatible with your phone."

I guess the key word here is 'certified'...looks like I am still on hold until this gets figured out.

[Admin]

Which the sad thing is it appears even some "certified" cards are having problems.

[minicooperwill]

Supposedly some people are having success with the SanDisk 8GB Class 2 that you can pick up from Costco for $25. I've read it in a couple different forums. I too have been waiting to know "for sure" that one of these (or ANY of the micro SD cards would work, for that matter) before picking up a Focus to replace my iPhone3. I was thinking maybe since there is a coupon for $7 off the Costco one for the 3 days after Thanksgiving that I'd go for it; maybe I'll just buy the memory and hold off on the phone.

[matthias2986]

This is the response I got today from SanDisk support when I asked about cards for the Focus:

"We would like to inform you that Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 only works with Windows 7 certified micro SD/SDHC memory card. As of now SanDisk do not manufacture any Windows 7 certified micro SD/SDHC card. We request you to contact Samsung to check which all cards are compatible with your phone."

I guess the key word here is 'certified'...looks like I am still on hold until this gets figured out.

I like that, its like saying "if you want to fly to the moon in your car you must own a flying car, currently no flying cars exist." =P

[donzebe]

Has anyone try Cards above class 4 sd/sdhc card? I am sure the class of the cards matter. Not all hardward accept standard sd cards with lower speed. Most recent hardware will accept Sd/sdhc cards of higher speed of 4 to 10. so 32 gb card with a lower speed of 2 or 4 classes may not be compactible with some hardward that are optimized for HD pictures and video.