Tech giants Samsung and OnePlus are expected to release their new and upgraded smartphone models soon. Samsung is all set to release Galaxy S10 series while OnePlus is also working on a new flagship named OnePlus 7, which has already been spotted in leaks and renders. These phones will get another major upgrade that will improve performance and that’s a new mobile storage standard called UFS 3.0.
UFS is an acronym for Universal Flash Storage specification for digital cameras, smartphones, and various consumer electronics devices capable of copying and reading data. The new UFS 3.0 standard aims to bring in higher data transfer speeds with increased reliability for flash memory storage facility. UFS 3.0 storage will also remove the confusion of getting different adapters for different types of cards.
UFS 3.0 storage predecessor, UFS 2.1 storage, is already found in several 2018 devices including the OnePlus 6T, which is one of the fastest Android phones you can buy. But UFS 3.0 destroys the old standard according to a leaked benchmark test.
Well-known smartphone leaker Ice Universe posted a screenshot on Twitter showing benchmark tests for UFS 3.0.
UFS3.0 Crazzzzzy！ pic.twitter.com/q7l3deeFH4
— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) January 6, 2019
If we compare UFS 3.0 with UFS 2.1, the sequential read and write speeds of UFS 2.1 is less than 800 MB/s and 300 MB/s respectively as compared to UFS 3.0’s sequential read and write speeds of 2,279.8 MB/s and 1,801.1 MB/s, respectively. Random read and write speeds are at 146.4 MB/s and 137.5 MB/s, respectively for UFS 3.0 whereas for UFS 2.1 offers random read and write speeds at 134.5 MB/s and 26.17 MB/s respectively.
Hardcore Android fans are already familiar with UFS storage, Samsung also happens to be one of the companies that mass-produce UFS storage, and a report in late October said that Samsung’s UFS 3.0 technology would be introduced this year.
The same leaker then said the OnePlus 7 would get new UFS 3.0 storage modules. But considering that Samsung is making UFS 3.0 storage, we expect the Galaxy S10 and Note 10 also to pack the same type of memory. Even if the leaker isn’t correct, the dawn of 5G, a new telecom standard that will deliver significantly higher internet speeds, will force smartphone makers to adopt faster RAM and storage solutions that can keep up with 5G speeds.
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