T-Mobile was running a promotion for customers who buy the T-Mobile Dash (HTC Excalibur), when they bought the T-Mobile Dash they would recieve a free 512 MB microSD memory card with some additional software. (Offer expired April 30th sorry)

The microSD card is a Kingston card and while Kingston may not be the biggest name in memory cards they are in my opinion the best. So this is a micro review of their microSD card. So why are they the best?

Well I performed a series of simple non scientific test. I timed how long the three microSD cards I had took to load a song via Windows Media Player Mobile on my Dash, how long it took to install Live Search onto each of the cards and how fast I could transfer files on the card onto my computers desktop using the adapters they come with. Each test the kingston memory card out performed similar cards from its major competitors such as SanDisk and Crucial by 1 or 2 seconds. The microSD card from Kingston that T-Mobile offered was 2 seconds faster in everything when compared to the Crucial card and tied or was 1 second faster than the SanDisk card.

I know those test aren’t the greatest of examples and 1 or 2 seconds faster may not seem like much but it is what it is. Sure I could of benchmarked the cards and gave you a bunch of numbers a lot of people would have trouble understanding, but I figured I would use a stop watch and actually time the performance, as those numbers in my opinion tend to be more realistic.

The Kingston microSD card that T-Mobile users recieved via the promotion also included FizzWeather and Concrete No Limites Texas Hold’em poker game.