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[ NNSquad ] Slow smartphone? It's not the network, it's NAND flash
Slow smartphone? It's not the network, it's NAND flash
http://j.mp/ADFsEo (Computerworld)
"The researchers tested top selling 16GB embedded flash memory cards in
several Android smartphones and found performance over WiFi varied
between 100% to 300% across applications. In one flash memory test,
performance dropped more than 20X. "A good chunk of time for users is
spent waiting for websites to load ... [and for] applications to
load," said Hyojun Kim, a Ph.D. student in the College of Computing at
Georgia Tech. And, while waiting for apps to load is annoying, a more
nefarious impact of poor flash performance is that it depletes a
smartphone's battery. Kim, lead author of the report, Revisiting
Storage for Smartphones, discussed the research at the Usenix
Conference on File and Storage Technologies here this week."
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