Huawei banned from using microSD cards

[Jamie McKane]

Huawei banned from using microSD cards

Huawei has been barred from the SD Association, meaning it will no longer be able to sell products which support official SD and microSD card standards.

The SD Association confirmed to Engadget that it barred Huawei from membership in order to comply with orders from the US government.

 

[Nobody Important]

Jeez, the US guavament is really committed to making sure Huawei fails as a company.

 

[quovadis]

5G patents. Nuff said.

 

[Genisys]

Not such a big deal

 

[quovadis]

Not such a big deal

They’ll probably just introduce a cheaper, faster standard.

 

[Sinbad]

They’ll probably just introduce a cheaper, faster standard.

They did already

 

[Genisys]

They’ll probably just introduce a cheaper, faster standard.

This finally forces another manufacturer away from the SD card standard, now we might start to see more of a price decrease on onboard storage, which would hopefully be carried onto customers.

Besides that, the "requirements" to have 1TB of storage in a phone is hogwash, unless someone downloads a lot of torrents, 1TB is really overkill. And to the people saying "What about photos?", we have cloud storage for that.

 

[quovadis]

This finally forces another manufacturer away from the SD card standard, now we might start to see more of a price decrease on onboard storage, which would hopefully be carried onto customers.

Besides that, the "requirements" to have 1TB of storage in a phone is hogwash, unless someone downloads a lot of torrents, 1TB is really overkill. And to the people saying "What about photos?", we have cloud storage for that.

The larger onboard storage sizes are usually for people that love video and record a ton of 4k and probably 8k soon - but its becoming a more negligible cost these days when factoring the overall cost of the devices.

 

[quovadis]

They did already

Well then they need better marketing people to drive adoption.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

I think they have been using there own sd cards for a while now?

 

[FiestaST]

I think they have been using there own sd cards for a while now?

Late last here with the Mate 20 (Vanilla & Pro).

I believe availability is still poor.

 

[Swa]

Sensational headline. As I understand it it's only the full specification that's licensed and there are unofficial implementations that use open software. Also there's nothing stopping someone from inserting a USB card reader.

 

[quovadis]

Also there's nothing stopping someone from inserting a USB card reader.

I think it's only Apple that could pull off a mobile phone with a dongle.

 

[Swa]

I think it's only Apple that could pull off a mobile phone with a dongle.

No people that really want to use it will get their own.

 

[Arthur]

There's a helluva lot more US-owned IP and tech that can be denied. For a start, every HDD pays royalties to IBM ... most common storage devices use the FAT formats owned by Microsoft ...

 

[D3fl3ct1on]

Not to worried there is cloud storage

 

[NeonNinja]

And to the people saying "What about photos?", we have cloud storage for that.

What about 4k?

 

[Fox1]

What about 4k?

We have 5G for those 4k videos to be uploaded to the Huawei cloud. Yes Huawei has their own cloud system.

 

[NeonNinja]

We have 5G for those 4k videos to be uploaded to the Huawei cloud. Yes Huawei has their own cloud system.

With what data?

 

[quovadis]

We have 5G

Local storage will most likely outpace cloud usage but bring on those cell towers every 150 metres.