TF Card?

So you are in the market for. . . let's say a new tablet . . . and you see that the device supports a TF card. You wonder . . . what is a TF card?

First, there are a lot of acronyms flying around in the multimedia world, some of which you have already heard about and others have yet to be "discovered." In the Student Multimedia Design Center you have by now become very familiar with the term "SD card." The SD stands for Secure Digital and describes a storage format that is non-volatile or can retain data even when there is no power source. In other words, when you take a photo with your digital camera the photo is retained on the card even when removed from the camera.

Now back to the TF card. Like the now standard SD card, the TF or TransFlash card is also non-volatile memory. In fact a TF card is an SD card only in a smaller size. The more common name for a TF card is microSD.

A brother to the TF or microSD card is the miniSD.

image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital