Smartphone of the future – storage
Sure cloud storage is already near limitless. But while data connections are less than reliable the instant storage of local disks are still sought after. You don't see many Chromebooks around yet, do you? But now that many mobiles, like the HTC One, are doing away with memory card expansion options we want more internal storage.
That’s why Samsung’s newly developed SSDs are exciting. They use – big breath – super-compact three-bit multi-level-cell 10 nanometer process technology. That, essentially, means we can look forward to more storage, with super-fast 400-megabit connections. Try doing that in a cloud. Although we do concede that when cloud connections are good enough local storage, for anything other than buffering, may be a thing of the past.