Huawei's NM cards benchmarked, show microSD-like performance.
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- Anonymous
- 7xb
- 22 Jan 2019
This is a very elegant design. (Unlike the stupid memory-stick design from Sony. Haha.)
The introduction of NM (NanoSD) makes it possible to have a standard slot with a shared interface such that a NanoSIM and a NM are interchangeable. Suppose you have a phone with only one NanoSIM slot. You can pull out that SIM and put in a NM so that you can copy files from the internal ROM to NM. You can put back the SIM once the file move operation is completed. In other words, every smartphone will support extended memory, in one way or other, in the future if this NM standard is accepted.
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- Alien
- 3RM
- 22 Jan 2019
Umm why should I be interested in some SD that only works with spying huawei garbage phones when I can and will go and buy the 400GB microSD from SanDisk that is recognized by any kind of phone or device?
Never going to buy a huawei product!
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- Anonymous
- i5V
- 22 Jan 2019
BUT HUAWEI WILL BE ABLE TO HACK ALL YOUR INFORMATION ON NM CARDS.
Now that's out of the way, the NM cards are great the size is such a benefit as in my M20P i can have extra storage or dual sim. The only downside right now is price.
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- Anonymous
- 7xb
- 22 Jan 2019
There is some confusion regarding NM (NanoSD) standard introduced by Huawei at Mate 20 series launch.
The primary driving force for NM (NanoSD) is to support future Hybrid Multi-SIM (Nano-SIM, Multi-SIM stand-by) within smartphones. NM is essentially a reduced version of MicroSD with identical internals. Size-wise, NM is identical to a Nano-SIM and 60% of the size of MicroSD. This makes support for Hybrid Multi-SIM simple. Multi-SIM refers to multiple nano-SIMs, more than 2 SIMs. If NM is not introduced, when future phones require support for Hybrid Multi-SIM, any support for additional memory extension will be difficult, due to space limitation. There is a growing demand for supporting 3-SIM-Stand-by (even 4-SIM-Stand-by) among Chinese smartphone buyers.
In terms of compatibility, price, performance and capacity, NM (nanoSD) is essentially identical to MicroSD. Every NM comes with a NM-to-MicroSD converter so NM is usable where microSD is usable. But in future Hybrid Multi-SIM slot, only NM will be supported. (NM can be put in where a NanoSIM is. You will need an additional larger slot for microSD if microSD is supported.)
The price for NM will be marginally higher than MicroSD initially, but will drop once its use is accepted. At this time, all NMs are OEM through Toshiba. Huawei doesn't charge license fees and makes no money out of it. Its acceptance will depend sorely on other Chinese smartphones makers. Whether other phone makers (Apple, Samsung, LG, SONY) adopt NM has no real-world impact.
Suppose you have a phone that supports 4-SIM-stand-by, but you only use one SIM. You can put in three 256GB NMs for 768GB extended memory. Isn't it wonderful? Have you ever imagined there will be a slot supporting multiple memory cards?
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- Anonymous
- tPG
- 22 Jan 2019
No such thing as faster speed, reasonable speed is fine for all microSD.
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- SquadBoi
- 7ki
- 22 Jan 2019
Love the Community, 21 Jan 2019It's not about the speed, it's the form factor. I'm glad NM... moreLm
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- SquadBoi
- 7ki
- 22 Jan 2019
xXENDER FREAKXx, 21 Jan 2019It's great to see HUAWEI pushing a new memory card standard... moreHow is it great? Pushing proprietary standards should've been left to 2000s. We are getting to universal standards and Huawei is trying to undermine it. Even Apple is seemingly moving to USB type C. Sony got bashed for memory stick, them so should Huawei
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- helloworld
- TSM
- 22 Jan 2019
you got to be kidding me ?
are you trying to render my collection of microSD useless ?
no thank you and also bye bye huawei you would not get my node nor money
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- zodiacfml
- sRj
- 22 Jan 2019
Why?
I like expandable storage but people are going away from it so why bother?
They could have simply shrunk the microsd card but retain the size/standard of the terminals just like what happened to shrinking of SIM cards.
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- Anonymous
- 7xb
- 22 Jan 2019
The primary driving force for NM (NanoSD) is to support future Hybrid Multi-SIM (Nano-SIM, Multi-SIM stand-by) within smartphones. NM is essentially a reduced version of MicroSD with identical internals. Size-wise, NM is identical to a Nano-SIM and 60% of the size of MicroSD. This makes support for Hybrid Multi-SIM simple. Multi-SIM refers to multiple nano-SIMs, more than 2 SIMs. If NM is not introduced, when future phones require support for Hybrid Multi-SIM, any support for additional memory extension will be difficult. There is a growing demand for supporting 3-SIM-Stand-by (even 4-SIM-Stand-by) among Chinese smartphone buyers.
In terms of compatibility, price, performance and capacity, NM (nanoSD) is essentially identical to MicroSD. Every NM comes with a NM-to-MicroSD converter so NM is usable where microSD is usable. But in future Hybrid Multi-SIM slot, only NM will be supported. (NM can be put in where a NanoSIM is. You will need an additional larger slot for microSD if microSD is supported.)
The price for NM will be slightly higher initially, but will drop once its use is accepted. At this time, all NMs are OEM through Toshiba. Huawei doesn't charge license fees and makes no money out of it. Its acceptance will depend sorely on other Chinese smartphones makers. Whether other phone makers (Apple, Samsung, LG, SONY) adopt NM has no real world impact.
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- Domestoboto
- I@H
- 22 Jan 2019
ZloiYuri, 21 Jan 2019I don't understand why people crying about cost of NM-cards... moreI bought a 128GB SanDisk microSD rated for A1 speeds for $33.
Huawei is selling their 128GB nanoSD for $56.
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- Domestoboto
- I@H
- 22 Jan 2019
AnonD-824731, 22 Jan 2019What's the point of this proprietary format?They're pulling a Sony (they had the Memory Stick format which was famously used in the PSP but was incompatible with SD) in that they can make significantly more money from people desperately wanting bigger storage on their Mate 20 phones than with people buying microSD cards from SanDisk or Samsung...
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- AnonD-824731
- 0mU
- 22 Jan 2019
What's the point of this proprietary format?
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- ZloiYuri
- gya
- 21 Jan 2019
I don't understand why people crying about cost of NM-cards? They costs as Sandisk cards of the same read/write speed.
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- Lyndino
- QHA
- 21 Jan 2019
Love the Community, 21 Jan 2019Oh yeah, with the PSP and PS Vita. Now that you mention it,... moreWhy change the form factor just to alleviate a miniscule amount of space?
How many billions of devices around the world are currently using microSD???
I for one would be super angry if the new standard wasn't compatible with the array of microSD cards I have acquired.
Increase internal storage rather than adopt a stillborn idea.
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- dude111
- 8{c
- 21 Jan 2019
xXENDER FREAKXx, 21 Jan 2019It's great to see HUAWEI pushing a new memory card standard... moreThis is far from a standard.
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- Anonymous
- YgK
- 21 Jan 2019
They're pulling a Sony. No thanks.