Samsung's 256GB flash memory chips are coming to high-end smartphones

Good news for everyone who constantly has to battle "not enough space" messages on their smartphone: Samsung has announced a 256GB flash embedded memory, aimed specifically for high-end mobile devices

Besides offering a lot of storage space — top smartphones today only go up to 128GB, if you don't count microSD cards — the new chips, based on the next-generation Universal Flash Storage standard, are also blazing fast. According to Samsung, they're nearly twice as fast as a SATA SSD for a PC, and, in at least one scenario, three times faster than high-performance external microSD cards.