Originally Posted by ztdztd
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Hi guys,
So basically, it is a marketing deal. SDIO does not mean that it will work with a SDHC card. SDIO, to a person who knows just SD and SDHC would only ba able to work with SD.
thanks for the info David and Julie
regards,
ztdztd
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SDIO means the slot has input/output capabilities, it may work with a GPS, a Wi-Fi adapter, a barcode reader, etc. It by itself means nothing as far as the ability to read cards over 2 GB in size.
Back when HP released the first iPAQ h3800
They played games as well. That was when there was a lot of hype about what all one could do with an SD slot. But it turned out the SD slot in the 3800 series was not a real SD slot either back then. SD slots have 9 pins and I believe that the h3800 only had four connected. And before long HP had the h3900 which had a better SD slot. Then there was the 5400 which had a slot for a phone SIM card, and for a time hype about it's potential to be a phone, but again it wasn't a real SIM slot.
All of these almost slots are great for selling iPAQs, and HP doesn't actually have to deliver a real working product. Kind of just like the so called docking stations for the two hundred series. The two hundred was suppose to have multiple docking stations, but so far we don't even have one.