The future of flash based technology
March 16, 2006 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Mobile Monitor, The Unwired Life
My co-editor Art wrote a very interesting piece on the future of flash-based technology for laptops. Following the trend of the migration of HD-based hardware storage to flash-based storage, it should logically follow suit that flash technology should get better and cheaper as time progresses.
The iPod nano was testament to this migration. Though the nano’s baby brother (iPod shuffle) possesses a relatively huge amount of memory (1GB), the nano has proven that flash storage can grow exponentially (maximum iPod nano storage is currently at 4GB) as well as become cheaper in the long run.
Art explains further:
Two trends in particular will …read more
