Compatibility with 32GB microSD cards has been referenced in countless smartphone spec sheets over the past 18 months or so, but so far we’ve not seen any microSD cards with capacities larger than 16GB. We’ve waited impatiently for the promised doubling of capacity since the first 32GB mention in 2008.
And it now seems that wait is almost over.
Samsung has developed a new process for manufacturing higher-capacity memory chips and plans to begin mass production of 32GB microSDHC flash memory cards next month.
“The 32GB microSD card … stacks eight 32Gb NAND components and a card controller. The industry’s highest capacity, production-ready microSD card is enabled by the use of Samsung’s advanced 30-nm class 32Gb NAND flash memory technology.”
Source: Samsung Press Release
If you spend as much time reading smartphone specs as we do (thrill a minute, we know – jealous?), you’ve probably noticed a majority of SDHC-compatible devices list their maximum supported memory card capacities at 32GB. But smartphones use microSD memory cards, which are only currently available with – at most – 16GB of storage. 16,000 megabytes is quite a lot, but where are the 32GB cards we’ve been so anxious to fill? 
