It would be so awesome to have small-ish phone with a 4.5" 720p display, maybe an SD625, some of this UFS storage and a 4000+mAh removable battery. Decent camera too, Xiaomi has shown me great things can be done in a budget of INR 7000 (price paid for my Redmi 2 Prime). Such a pity we're served big to mega sized showcase pieces that eventually become obsolete as planned.
Check out Samsung's 2018 Galaxy A series. Not sure about the battery capacity, but they always had great battery life (better than the S line for tyre same size), and everything else in terms of specs seems to be top notch.
I'm seriously thinking picking one up after a good price drop in the summer.
Exactly the same in my country too, where do you live? Can only get the A5 and A7 in India. Sony too discontinued the Xperia Compact series after the Z3 Compact. No X, no XZ Compact...
Nvme, or, in general, any protocol that doesn't require addressing ssds with protocols that were intended to be used with disks and, in particular, very thin protocols that present open channel devices (eg, the lightnvm extensions to nvme).
Hmmmmm? Host-controlled storage devices are the most practical way we have to do bounded latency storage io without something like xpoint or massively over-provisioning hardware. This leads to a much better user experience in mobile as it partially collapses the storage stack to enable intent-based management decisions.
The better question is if we are ever going to see the UFS memory cards that Samsung "preannounced" in mid 2016. Does Samsung think the memory card format competition is too great to absorb USF cards as well? Or is it a licensing thing? UFS (both internal or external) is strangely SCSI based rather than PCIe based (like NVME). So SCSI made a belated consumer comeback in the mobile space!
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ads295 - Monday, December 4, 2017 - link
It would be so awesome to have small-ish phone with a 4.5" 720p display, maybe an SD625, some of this UFS storage and a 4000+mAh removable battery. Decent camera too, Xiaomi has shown me great things can be done in a budget of INR 7000 (price paid for my Redmi 2 Prime).Such a pity we're served big to mega sized showcase pieces that eventually become obsolete as planned.
lilmoe - Monday, December 4, 2017 - link
Check out Samsung's 2018 Galaxy A series. Not sure about the battery capacity, but they always had great battery life (better than the S line for tyre same size), and everything else in terms of specs seems to be top notch.I'm seriously thinking picking one up after a good price drop in the summer.
ads295 - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link
I've always wanted the A3 but they dropped the generations after 2015 in my country.LordanSS - Monday, December 4, 2017 - link
Amen, brother. I'd like a 4.2" 720p display myself, but it's all about huge screens nowadays...Samsung doesn't even sell the A3 (the small one) in my country anymore. =/
ads295 - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link
Exactly the same in my country too, where do you live? Can only get the A5 and A7 in India. Sony too discontinued the Xperia Compact series after the Z3 Compact. No X, no XZ Compact...SydneyBlue120d - Monday, December 4, 2017 - link
What's next after UFS 2.1? Is 3.0 and 4.0 still planned?https://www.anandtech.com/show/10094/samsung-annou...
tuxRoller - Monday, December 4, 2017 - link
Nvme, or, in general, any protocol that doesn't require addressing ssds with protocols that were intended to be used with disks and, in particular, very thin protocols that present open channel devices (eg, the lightnvm extensions to nvme).SydneyBlue120d - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link
?!?!tuxRoller - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link
Hmmmmm?Host-controlled storage devices are the most practical way we have to do bounded latency storage io without something like xpoint or massively over-provisioning hardware.
This leads to a much better user experience in mobile as it partially collapses the storage stack to enable intent-based management decisions.
Santoval - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link
The better question is if we are ever going to see the UFS memory cards that Samsung "preannounced" in mid 2016. Does Samsung think the memory card format competition is too great to absorb USF cards as well? Or is it a licensing thing?UFS (both internal or external) is strangely SCSI based rather than PCIe based (like NVME). So SCSI made a belated consumer comeback in the mobile space!
oranos - Wednesday, December 6, 2017 - link
phones already easily doing 900+ in 2017. whats the big deal?