Last week, a lot of people were disappointed to hear that the G1 would not be shipping with support for memory cards higher than 8GB. We were told that the T-Mobile G1 would get a firmware upgrade some time down the road to enable support for SanDisk’s 16GB microSDHC cards. Now it seems Google has had a change of heart. a Google Spokesperson was quoted saying: “We have completed tests, and the new SanDisk 16GB card will run on the current version of Android. No new firmware required.”
This news only seems logical since the technology to run a 8GB microSDHC card is the same for the 16GB card. I’m sure Google simply wanted to test the card out to make sure it would work before telling the world that it would support the card and then have there be a chance that it simply would not work. This news does give us hope that the T-Mobile G1 will also be able to support 32GB microSDHC cards once they hit the market is a year or so.
Currently a 16GB microSDGC card can be purchased at MSRP of $99.99at your local BestBuy store. More retailers are expected to be selling the card within the next month or so. A quick Google search does turn up a few only shops that are practically giving it away at $76 with free shipping and no tax (only if you are located out of state of course).
