Hacking Kingston 1gb MicroSD (Japanese) in the UK

[smelialic]

The topic and description say it all really, are there any other reliable, speedy stores other than ebuyer that sell the Kingston 1gb MicroSD at a decent price?

I ask for this particular card (and the Japanese rather than Taiwanese manufactured version) as the consensus appears to be that this is the best micro SD card.

 

[Sinkhead]

MobyMemory or 7DayShop have always worked well for me.

- Sam

 

[krystaldark]

http://www.addictsupplies.com/

This site separates their Kingstons into Japan and Taiwan cards, actually at different prices too. I ordered one after searching everywhere and it arrived really fast too. I had a useless CycloDS for long!

The only thing is, and I wonder if this is the same with all cards, it says Made in Japan, and then in Chinese characters below it says Assembled in China. Bit of a trick, as you'd only know this if you can read Chinese.

 

[111111111]

http://www.picstop.co.uk/Micro-SD---TransFlash have always been good for me, fast and cheap. They have toshiba 1gb cards (which are the original mnfr - kingston just rebadge toshiba cards for the made in japan ones) for £8 delivered. Kingston are £1 less (email to make sure they are japanese first though, they were when I last ordered but could be taiwanese now).

 

[mcp2]

The parts were probably made in Japan and then shipped to China for cheap labour.