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Samsung quietly removes mention of UFS 2.1 storage from Galaxy S8’s specifications

Samsung always relies on multiple component vendors for its flagship smartphones. The Galaxy S8 and S8+ feature either the Snapdragon 835 processor or the Exynos 8895 chipset, depending on the market. The company also uses camera sensors from two vendors: Sony and System LSI. However, it appears that the company might also be using two types of storage solutions for its […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
8 years ago

Galaxy Note 7 review: Samsung’s next-generation phablet closes in on perfection

The Galaxy Note 7 is the smartphone from Samsung that is poised to wrap up 2016 before it's over and award the crown to the Korean giant once more. Samsung chose to refine the Note, and has made small tweaks that show that it has mastered the art of refinement. Apart from the small tweaks, yes, there are additions […]

By Deidre R.
8 years ago

Samsung declares UFS as the Excalibur of the future mobile world

Samsung unveiled the world's first Universal Flash Store (UFS) lineup of microSD cards about a month ago. UFS is the next-generation memory standard for mobile devices and Samsung is aiming to be a leader in this sector. The company talked about its future strategy for UFS at the Mobile & IoT Forum 2016 in Seoul. Senior […]

By Adnan Farooqui
8 years ago

Galaxy Note 7 may feature a hybrid UFS/microSD card slot

Samsung introduced a new mobile storage format based on UFS 1.0 last week. The company said that the new storage format is going to provide read and write speeds that are 5x better than microSD cards. The only caveat here is that the new UFS cards are not compatible with existing microSD card sockets which means there's […]

By Adnan Farooqui
8 years ago

Samsung announces the world’s first lineup of UFS-based microSD cards

Samsung has today taken the wraps off the world’s first Universal Flash Storage (UFS)-based microSD cards, which are available in a wide range of storage capacities, including 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB. Not only are these memory cards fantastic for day-to-day use, but they have also been optimized to deliver an excellent user experience when […]

By Josh L.
8 years ago

Samsung starts mass producing industry’s first 256GB flash storage for high-end devices

Samsung Electronics today announced that it has started mass producing the industry's first 256GB embedded memory based on the Universal Flash Storage 2.0 standard, for next-generation high-end mobile devices. The company says that this newly introduced flash memory provides performance that exceeds that of a conventional SATA-based SSD for PCs. Samsung's new UFS memory provides […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

Samsung will weigh its options before deciding to bid for SanDisk

Global semiconductor companies are competing to acquire SanDisk, Samsung tried acquiring it back in 2008 but withdrew its offer, this time around the Korean company is going to weigh its options before it decides whether or not it wants to bid for the US flash memory maker. SanDisk has reportedly selected an investment back to line […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

Samsung expected to use its next-generation flagship smartphones with super-fast UFS flash memory

Korean website ETNews is reporting that Samsung is gearing up to produce super-fast UFS 2.0 NAND Flash memory in order to equip its next-generation flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S6, with faster data storage solution. As opposed to the current eMMC NAND Flash technology, which can reach an average file transfer speed of up to 400MB/s, the newer […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
10 years ago

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