wraggster
March 19th, 2015, 19:41
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/e9c37f1234b6f614fc4cf92b514e80f8/201709720/samsung-galaxy-a5-samsungtomorrow.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/18/samsung-can-put-128gb-of-storage-in-your-low-cost-phone/)
Just because you're not splurging on a top-of-the-line smartphone doesn't mean that you have to settle for a tiny amount of storage. Samsung certainly thinks that way -- it just announced (http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150318006549/en/Samsung-Electronics-Introduces-High-performance-128-Gigabyte-3-bit-NAND#.VQn6IBDF_gM) a 3-bits-per-cell flash memory chip that promises 128GB of storage in "mass market" (read: more affordable) mobile devices. It's based on the plain eMMC tech you see in most phones instead of the fast UFS format (http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/25/samsung-ufs-flash-memory/) inside the Galaxy S6 (http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/01/meet-samsungs-galaxy-s-6-and-galaxy-s-6-edge/), but you probably won't complain about the speed when it can still read sequential data at a very respectable 260MB per second. The one catch? There's no word on when it'll be ready, so you may be waiting a while before you're carrying a budget phone with more drive space than some laptops.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/18/samsung-can-put-128gb-of-storage-in-your-low-cost-phone/
Just because you're not splurging on a top-of-the-line smartphone doesn't mean that you have to settle for a tiny amount of storage. Samsung certainly thinks that way -- it just announced (http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150318006549/en/Samsung-Electronics-Introduces-High-performance-128-Gigabyte-3-bit-NAND#.VQn6IBDF_gM) a 3-bits-per-cell flash memory chip that promises 128GB of storage in "mass market" (read: more affordable) mobile devices. It's based on the plain eMMC tech you see in most phones instead of the fast UFS format (http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/25/samsung-ufs-flash-memory/) inside the Galaxy S6 (http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/01/meet-samsungs-galaxy-s-6-and-galaxy-s-6-edge/), but you probably won't complain about the speed when it can still read sequential data at a very respectable 260MB per second. The one catch? There's no word on when it'll be ready, so you may be waiting a while before you're carrying a budget phone with more drive space than some laptops.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/18/samsung-can-put-128gb-of-storage-in-your-low-cost-phone/