Things to Remember while Buying a Memory Card

Let's take a look at some important tips to consider while buying a Memory Card Online or Retail for your Smartphone

Generally a memory card expands your mobile phone storage memory which in turn let you store more data. But the first thing which I want to clear is that Memory Card is not just only for storage purpose. The performance of your Android Smartphone or iPhone depends upon your Memory Card Read and Write Speed. Here in this post you will learn how to buy a Memory Card.

Well its not as easy as you just visit a retail shop ask for a MicroSD card and with transaction you end a purchase. You ain't gonna buy this mobile accessory again and again unless you got any free gift cards or something. Remember this mantra - buy once and buy wise.

So now take a look at these important tips which you have to consider before making your purchase.

1. Well most commonly all the latest Android Phones ROM operates on Android 4.0 and above versions which allow you to move your app data to SD card, this feature is known as APP2SD.
   
   As you move your app/game data from internal storage to sd card. Your allocate data for the moved files. The high speed memory card make it easy to access the data promptly in comparison to low performance memory cards. For a practical purpose try to move the data on a Class 2 memory card and a Class 6 memory card and play the game or app. You will spot the difference by yourself.
2. What is Class in Memory Card? Class is a classification of Memory Card in respect of their transfer speed. The higher class memory card has comparatively much faster than preceding one.
   Class 2
   Class 4
   Class 6
   Class 10
   For a low to mid end smartphone, you can choose from Class 4 or Class 6 Memory Card. I suggest you to buy a Class 10 or UHS 1 (Ultra High Speed) only if you owe a high end smartphone. A higher Class 10 or UHS is generally required for high resolution photo capturing which requires maximum amount of RAM.

3. Price factor - Price matters, a 8GB Class 2 memory card cost only 150-250 INR. A Class 4 or 6 memory card cost a little higher than that. Various dealing sites help you to buy a better and performance memory card at lowest price. So before buying a memory card, keep track on them too. Also the event sales lower down the price amount too.
4. Brand Matters - Its hard to say which Memory Card Brand works better for you but in order to solve this dilemma, you can ask you friends, relatives, you can read user reviews on Amazon and Flipkart or make a forum post. You can post a question here too. I will happy to help you in buying a best memory card. You can choose from SanDisk, Toshiba and Kingston. I have read user issues with local brands or loose products. Check this one.
5. Performance Benchmark - You can use Antutu Banchmark app to benchmark your Memory Card read and write speed. These utility apps does not requires root. Just install it in your friend smartphone and benchmark their Memory Card, do a little comparison test and then decide which one to buy.

Your Memory Card performance also depends upon various factors -

• Latest and updated memory cards make data transfer faster.
• While working with data cable, your transfer speed depends upon your android phone RAM usage. Also in many cases transfer via USB cable is lower than from memory cards.
• Quality of cable - a lower quality cable can hampers the transfer rate. 
• Beware of duplicates and fake products. 

I hope these tips helps you. There is nothing new in this post but just a general idea which may helps some new guys. If it helps you, click that like button from below. 

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