SanDisk’s latest MicroSDHC card has a 12GB capacity. If you’ve ever held one of these cards, you’ll appreciate the true beauty of this article. If you haven’t, we’re talking small. MicroSD is a very small form factor, about the size of a small pinky nail. (The actual memory bank on the whole chip takes up about half the space.)

Currently you can buy the 8GB MicroSDHC cards for around $130. That’s about $16 per gig, and factor in the +$2 per gig on the next model up, we’re talking about $18 per gig on the 12GB model, totaling $216.00 USD is our guess at the price (SanDisk hasn’t released pricing info yet).

These little cards allow you to carry a very large amount of music and video with you on your phone or other supporting devices. (A device compatible with MicroSD might not be compatible with MicroSDHC. Usually a firmware update will fix this.) That gives iPhone fans new options. A good smart phone with media capabilities will really make competition for the iPhone when you can add your own higher capacity removable media.