Sandisk Ultra II 4gb SDHC Card Announced

Interesting how they arrive at that particular list of devices:

Apparently the Treo 650, 600, T5 and Zire 72 support 2gb SD cards via FAT16 (its maximum volume size for all practical purposes).

Then the newer LifeDrive, TX and Treo 700 series support 2gb by way of a FAT32 driver which just so happens to enable unofficial support for 4gb. I doubt we'll ever see Palm officially support 4gb SD 1.1 cards since the SD Consortium doesn't even officially acknowledge these cards. Basically, if Sandisk or Pansonic do not produce a card in a particular capacity like 4gb or 1.5gb, then I wouldn't really consider it a legitimate or widely-supported variant. The SD market is already fragmented enough as it is.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

I also have a cheap no-name (but new) internal SD card reader in my PC that's supposedly capable of SD 2.0 which is another moniker for SDHC. It handles 2gb and 4gb vanilla SD cards so I'll take that as a good sign.

The E2 was released in Spring '05 and the Z22 and TX in Oct '05, so technically those two are the final Palm PDAs produced.

Right now the LifeDrive, TX, Treo 700P and 700w/wx all officially support a FAT32 filesystem so you can use the non-spec 4gb SD cards on them.

To the best of my knowledge, I think FrankenGarnet is limited to only recognize drive volumes of 4gb or less. So that could be yet another reason an 8gb LD2 was never produced by Palm as rumored.

IIRC, FAT32 itself permits volumes up to 32gb but I think that was a Microsoft restriction and not an absolute limitation. At any rate, I suppose SDHC will be viable through 8gb and probably up to the teens--I doubt SDHC will reach 32gb in its current iteration.

128mb of program memory is definitely a limitation of FrankenGarnet, as evidenced by the Zodiac 2 and TX. That's PLENTY for my needs....128mb of program memory and a 4gb SD card makes for a nice combination. 128mb internal + 2gb internal flash (ala T5) + a 4gb SD card would be fantastic. With the plummeting flash prices nowdays, Palm could release a TX/T5 hybrid with a glammed-up version of TCMP in ROM and market it as a PMP PDP or as a Nano alternative.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P