Samsung introduced world's first 2GB MMCmicro card for mobile phones. It is only about the size of a postage stamp. (File photo)

    BEIJING, April 20 (Xinhuanet) -- Samsung Electronics Wednesday announced that it has developed a 2 GB MultiMediaCard (MMCmicro card) for use in mobile phones.

    The card is about the size of a postage stamp (12mmx14mmx1.1mm), and combines four 4Gbit NAND flash devices. According to Samsung, the card can store 12 hours of mobile video and is fast enough to download three hours of it in under two minutes. An adapter allows the card to be plugged into any multimedia card slot. The card can read at 10MB per second and write at 7MB per second.

    Availability and pricing of the card have not been announced; however, Samsung said that it will be shipping a 1 GB MMCmicro card, which was announced about three months ago, "later this year."

    Some U.S. Retail sources said that they would expect the pricing of the card to come in at "less than 50 dollars."

    Samsung cited research by Dataquest, a semiconductor market research firm that said that between 2005 and 2010, the multimedia card market will grow 17 percent and the MMCmicro market by 95 percent. Enditem

(Agencies)