If there's one thing tech-savvy people like seeing in their memory cards, it's more stuff. Needless to say, Sandisk has taken that to mean OODLES of pictures, music, and more, as they've just announced the development of a 12GB microSDHC card for use with all your favorite gadgets.

More on this sweet new development after the jump!

Mobile phone and NDS owners may find common ground in this particular news bit, which pertains to SanDisk and their upcoming 6 and 8GB MicroSD High Capacity (microSDHC) flash cards.

The manufacturer has just sent out word that they have begun sending out samples of both flash memory drives to major phone manufacturers and mobile network operators for testing and evaluation.

Shipping is expected to begin late this year, although SanDisk has yet to announce the news card's expected retailer prices. For the mobile phone owners, the 8GB card will enable you to carry a total of 2,000 songs, or more than 5,000 pictures, or up to 5 hours of MPEG-4 videos.

We also imagine the guys in the portable gaming scene will find this announcement uplifting, given that homebrew-enabling cards like CycloDS Revolution support the format. Games aside, that'll leave plenty of room for your comics, videos, images, and the ton of homebrew you'll need to keep all these files running properly. Keep posted in case the test results for SanDisk's upcoming microSDHC cards get released.

If you're looking for a new memory card to hold your files, then you might want to check out Best Buy. The company's currently advertising that SanDisk 2GB Secure Digital Memory Cards can now be bought for US$ 29.99 a pop. That's twenty bucks off the regular price of US$ 49.99.

That's also US$ 50 cheaper than, for example, a PNY Secure Digital memory card with the same storage capacity. Yeah, it's a pretty OK bargain, if you ask us. Of course, with Best Buy's recent admission of the existence their secret Intranet site (which was "never meant to mislead customers," or so the company says), you might want to be extra careful.

Thanks to jpcguy89 for the heads up!

Say goodbye to your free-loading days because come next year, you'd have no excuse not to chip in. Thanks to a new wireless standard called Near Field Communication (NFC), you'll be able to pay simply by swiping your cell phone a few inches from a cash register. The NFC Chip embedded in your phone will be able to send your credit card number stored in your chip by way of short distance radio waves.

If you're thinking that this is nothing different from radio-frequency identification (RFID) and other contactless payments, well hear us out first. Not only could a NFC give data, it could also take in data, such as a receipt zapped to it by a cash register or a bus schedule from a tag embedded in a bus-stop sign.

And if you're thinking that this would only be an unnecessary waste of your hard-earned dough, think again. You need not buy a new cell phone to use this one. The miniSD-card-size adapter from SanDisk can add NFC to any smartphone with a Symbian operating system when it hits stores next spring.

Expect a 4GB SD card from SanDisk to drop this month. SanDisk's upcoming product will be based on version 2.0 of the SD standard, also known as SDHC. This 4GB card will deliver a minimum data transfer rate of 28MBps, making it a  'Class 2' under the SDHC specification.

As there is a scarcity of devices having SDHC slots, SanDisk is planning to bundle their 4GB SDHC memory card with a compact USB adaptor. No word yet on the price and exact release date for this SanDisk product.