I knew this was coming; it is just that I did not fathom it would be so soon. Ladies and gentleman, I have an announcement to make: before 2016 ends, your smartphone will dare laptop and desktop computing supremacy across all fronts.
Smartphones today are propelled by computer chips that are as powerful as those found in PCs. Some, if not most of them run on 4GB or RAM, the same that you would find in most laptop computers. The locally built clone desktop that I am using to do this piece has an AMD dual-core computer chip running at 2GHz and 2GB RAM. All I am saying is that my desktop has half the RAM that your smartphone probably has.
My darling desktop has 1TB hard disk installed. In plain language, my desktop computer can store up to 67,108,864 Computer Crosstalk articles. For the last fourteen years, I have only done 702 such pieces. As much as your current smartphone has as much computing might as my trusted desktop, it is shy of the massive storage capacity my computer has. You probably have a mere 64GB. If you wish to know, that is a mere 6.24 percent of the 1TB.
Smartphones use flash memory which is slightly faster than ordinary hard drives. The only problem is that such memory does slow down the processing during complicated activities. Whilst hard drives can comfortably handle write or read jobs on a queue, flash memory does not even want anything to do with that.
Both hard drives and flash memory suffer from inability to simultaneously read and write; it is one way traffic.
Samsung has announced that it has come up with a new kind of flash memory that will revolutionise smartphone storage technologies. It is called Universal Flash Storage (UFS). This memory will enable smartphone to read and write data at the same time. It is more than twice the speed of current flash memory.
UF has four lanes like Kamuzu highway with two cars running simultaneously in each direction. Ordinary flash memory has eight lanes all running in one direction at a time. Whilst that may seem wide enough to carry a lot of data, the truth is that it is actually slower scheme as is it prone to cause a lot of collisions.
Universal Flash memory will debut in 256GB chunks. This means that soon Samsung phones will come with 256GB standard memory. Currently Samsung smartphones come loaded with 32GB memory while Apple’s starter pack memory is 16GB. To get to 64GB, you would have to part away with US$100 dollars and another US$100 to jump to 128GB.
With this development, Smartphones will soon have as much storage space as my PC. The only advantage that I will have is that I will still have a much bigger screen to take care of my aging eyes. Otherwise, you already have almost my big computer in your pocket. Reality can be brutally unforgiving.
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