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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
This is my first smart phone so I know very little about SD cards. 32GB would be plenty space for me. Just as long as it will fit and be reasonably priced. I've had luck with Sandisk usb flash drives, so Sandisk might be good. Any suggestions? Thanks. Oh, and what's the "class" thing about? eg. class 10
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First thing you want to do is find the maximum size card your phone can handle. Sometimes you can use a larger card than they say but often you can't and you won't know it till you try to put too much on it. Sometimes the card just doesn't get detected if it's capacity is greater than the phone can handle.
If you just want to have room for stuff you're doing, such as books and audiobooks and maybe a few videos 32 gig is plenty. If you like to have a LOT of books, videos, pictures, audiobooks, etc on board you might be happier with a larger card. These days 64 gig cards cost so little more than 32 gig cards that I'd get 64 gig just in case you find you need it, assuming your phone can handle it. Most can.
As for the brand, Sandisk is extremely reliable. They were the first company to sell flash memory cards, or PCMCIA, which was a standard based on their design. They're now owned by Western Digital, another company known for very reliable products. Sandisk is always my first choice.
If the price is better on a card made by Samsung or SP or Kingston or Transcend or Verbatim I'll get one of those. There are a couple of other reliable brands whose names I can't think of off the top of my head. The one thing you don't want to do is get a brand you don't know is good. There are many, many ripoff micro SD cards even on Amazon. It's a big problem. Stick with the known brands.
Class is about speed. If all you're doing is storing books and stuff on it class isn't that important. Transferring a lot of stuff to a card with a lower class will take a little longer but you probably won't do that a lot. Transferring a book to a slower card won't make a noticeable difference.
If you're taking pictures and they're being automatically saved to the card then you might want a faster card. There are a few other situations that also might make you want a faster one.
Class 10 is pretty fast. Class 4 is slower. These days there isn't a lot of price difference if the card is as small as 32 gig, but there'll be some difference. If you're taking lots of pictures directly to the card you might want a UHS II card. UHS I is the same speed as class 10.
For most people most of the time it doesn't matter a lot what card you get as long as it has enough room for you and it doesn't exceed the phone's capability.
Barry