SanDisk has launched its first 32GB SD card. It is a removable memory card for mobile phones, which twofolds the storage space of the vendor's 16GB microSDHC offering, that came just a year back.

However, this mass storage 32GB card comes at a whopping price of $200, almost four times the cost of most 16GB microSDHC cards available in the market. The size of the card is nearly the size of a thumbnail.

According to SanDisk, with this 32GB card, you can listen to music for over 35 round-trip flights between San Francisco and New York, at least for 175 hours, without repeating a single track.

The company said that the new microSDHC cards would chiefly aim the increasing smartphone demand, mostly for users who desire to store massive amounts of photos and media files.

Sanjay Mehrotra, Sandisk President and Chief Operating Officer, said, "With the large volume of photos, videos and music that consumers create and carry around, a high-capacity memory card is a must-have component of today's smartphone".

He added that SanDisk is glad to be the first to deliver the highest-capacity card.

The company said that next month, the new cards will dispatch in the US and Europe.