SanDisk has announced that its 16 GB microSDHC and Memory Stick Micro (M2) mobile memory cards — the world’s largest-capacity removable storage cards currently available for mobile phones — are now available in Canada. Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores are the first major retail outlets in Canada to carry the 16 GB cards.

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The fingernail-sized 16 GB memory cards allow consumers to “wake up” the many storage-intensive features offered by today’s portable handsets such as music and video playback, high-definition digital camera functions, gaming and GPS applications. In addition to the mobile phone, consumers can use the 16 GB microSDHC card in a multitude of other devices, including video cameras, GPS receivers or MP3 players with a microSDâ„¢ slots such as SanDisk’s Sansa® players.

I remember spending upwards of (US)$400 on my first 1 GB compact flash card. The 16 GB microSDHC is listed on Best Buy’s web site at (C)$129.99 and the Memory Stick Micro version is expected to retail around (C)$170.