Slow smartphone? It's not the network, it's NAND flash

Computerworld reports some interesting research. While users and experts typically point to processor chips and wireless network connectivity as the culprit of poor smartphone performance, storage is more of an issue, according to researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and NEC Corp. This researchers are of course not neutral because they want to promote phase-change random access memory (PRAM) as some form of caching for writing NAND flash. But even keeping that in mind the speed differences between the tested embedded flash memory cards are really remarkable.