I am confused about the external storage capacity of the N810. My goal is purchase the largest SD card available that will work with the N810.

The Nokia book says supported cards are: "Mini SD and Micro SD with adapater." Neither is the high capacity card ("SDHC").

My limited understanding of storage cards is that above 2 GB they become "high capacity" cards, i.e., Mini SDHC or Micro SDHC. The Nokia says only that it accepts Mini and Micro SD cards -- not SDHC cards.

The Nokia card slot is MINI SD yet Amazon.com pushes the Sandisk 6GB Micro SDHC (high capacity) card for the N810.

Will it work? How can it? Its the wrong size and there is no adapter to the Mini size (you cannot have an adpter from SDHC to SD as they are different chip sets).

You would need an adapter to put a Micro SDHC card into a Mini SDHC slot and I do not believe that there is one (there are adapters when the card is not high capacity).

I guess I really do not care so much about the technical answer to all of this as much as someone telling me what is the largest card I can buy for the N810 that will actually work?

Very interested in a helpful response.

SDHC cards are the ones you want to purchase for the N810.

-T.

yea, I'm interested in this as well. been surfing around for the answer for some time now.

... as long as they are "mini" or "micro" size!

The N810 WILL NOT take a regular SD card!

Omega

Will the 6 GB Micro SDCD card work? How would it fit, the adapter provided is for regular SD size. They told me that the adapter to Mini SD wont work either because one card is SD and the other SDHC. I have never seen a SDHC to SDHC (micro to mini) adapter. HAVE YOU????

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Geeez WFT, chill out! The micro uses an adapter to make it the size of the mini. If you can find HC cards that are "micro", they will work using the adapter (mini sized)... make any sense?

The maximum size (physical size) of cards the N810 can use is the mini-SD.... and can use micro-SD cards with an adapter.

Omega

I took a deep breath, sorry.

The fundemental problem is we have two variables here:

mini + micro and
SD + SDHC

I know Micro and Mini can adapt as long as they are both SD. Presumably they could as well if they were both SDHC -- but I cannot find an adapter that does it. Without that, you cannot go above 2 GB becasue there is no adapting between SD and SDHC.

Does this make sense?

Seems to me you are making a mountain out of a mole hill. Although I do not own an N810, it also seems to me that when you purchase a "micro" card that it will come with an adapter... if not, I will assume that the card that comes with the 810 probably has an adapter with it. An adapter is just that... an adapter. Seems to me that the adapter has nothing to do with whether the card is HC or not... its just an adapter.

Nuf said...

Omega

wait.. the n810 came with a micro/mini sd adapter?

does anyone know when the 8gb micro cards will be released?