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Originally Posted by Jeff Duntemann
I will certainly withdraw the objection if it's true, but the majority of online writeups indicate that support stops at 2 GB, including Wikipedia's description of the Kindle:
A SD card expansion slot is present. SDHC is supported, but only the first 2GB is accessible. Going up to 4 GB is good, but why stop there? 4 GB cards are now ~$25. The SDHC spec allows up to 32 GB (a limitation of the FAT32 file system more than the hardware spec) and those cards will be with us soon and cheap even sooner.
All engineering solutions are compromises, and the Kindle is a nice piece of engineering. Some things (like the tiny display) are understandable simply because that's the current state of the art. Other things, like limiting the expansion card slot to 2 or even 4 GB, are beyond comprehension. |
And you say you own a Sony Reader and think the Kindle is poor beyond comprehension? It has been stated that it likely works on 8Gig and probably beyond but nobody has tested it. You Sony reader can only read 2 Gig and many devices are even limited to 1 Gig. All hardware design has tradeoffs and expenses. I suspect the controller chip in the Sony is cheaper than the one in the Kindle and the Kindle specs are just conservative since no one has a 32 Gig card to test with.
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