How Much Memory Do You Need on a Card?

Technology today is wonderful. Our cell phones are more than just a phone. We can play music, take pictures, make videos and even surf the web. So, we want to keep some of the cool stuff we've made, how do we do this? Most of our gadgets, be it a cell phone, digital camera,mp3 player or even a digital photo frame have a slot for a memory card. The most common options for memory cards are micro or mini sizes. First you need to figure out what size card your gadget takes. Usually the instruction booklet tells you this. If you can't find it there, try your card, it won't fit if it's the wrong size. The first question is how much memory should my card have? When you want to buy a memory card for your device, you want to make sure you can keep everything you want on it. I highly recommend that you keep the card stored in the device. Changing cards is a good way to lose them. They are really small and most don't offer a way to label them to tell what you have stored on the card. So, how much memory do you need. Not as much as you'd think. The 2GB card is usually plenty to store whatever you want on it. You can store thousands of songs and pictures on one card, yes I said thousands. This is plenty of room. If you are planning on storing full length movies, and lots of videos, you may want to get a little more memory. 4GB or 8GB should be plenty for all of this. Yes, more is always better, but if you have an 8GB memory card in your phone, how much of it are you really going to use? Do you really need that much space? I don't think so. You will have to decide for yourself, but why pay for more when you don't really need it?