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Flash Memory, Not Networks, Hamper Smartphones Most

Posted by Soulskill on from the at-least-flash-doesn't-do-it-intentionally dept.

Lucas123 writes "New research shows that far more than wireless network or CPUs, the NAND flash memory in cell phones, and in particular smartphones, affects the device's performance when it comes to loading apps, surfing the web and loading and reading documents. In tests with top-selling 16GB smartphones, NAND flash memory slowed mobile app performance from two to three times with one exception, Kingston's embedded memory card; that card slowed app performance 20X. At the bottom of the bottleneck is the fact that while network and CPUs speeds have kept pace with mobile app development, flash throughput hasn't. The researchers from Georgia Tech and NEC Corp. are working on methods to improve flash performance (PDF), including using a PRAM buffer to stage writes or be used as the final location for the SQLite databases."

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  1. Re:I would like faster flash memory by Lumpy · · Score: 1, Troll

    That "software bridge" is called the craptastic USB stack that Microsoft uses on windows 7.

    Even if you open the iphone from the file manager and grab them by hand it takes forever. USB2.0 is utter crap for any large amounts of data transfer. Small single files? good, sustained data transfer is garbage. Apple was stupid for removing the Firewire interface from the ipod and iphhone.

    12 gigs of photos over USB 2.0 is slow as hell simply because the USB2.0 speeds are slow as hell.

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  2. Re:Why not a ramdrive? by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: -1, Troll

    the point is that a lot of morons are checking their Facebooks every 5 seconds while the smart ones aren't biting down into the mobile paradigm bullshit.

    Seriously, mobile people - They advertise throughput but cut you off at caps. They advertise this and cut you off at that. Are you all fucking morons?

    Yeah, you are. Dumb, dumb motherfuckers.

  3. Re:Now this I believe by BitZtream · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sigh, I'm gonna have to be a fanboy on this one cause its simply too easy and true ...

    If you want your phone not to stutter when you open an email then you shouldn't be buying a black berry or an android device. BlackBerry devices are just shit compared to anything else on the market now days and the Android UI design and implementation issues pretty much make getting rid of UI lag an impossible feat.

    Interestingly, I don't really have that issue when opening messages on my iPhone ;) /troll

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  4. Re:Or, you know, maybe by quasipunk+guy · · Score: -1, Troll

    Android just sucks.