Samsung has finally released its flagship smartphone for this year, the Galaxy S8. Many have expected that the South Korean tech company unleashed one of the impressive devices in the current line of handset products today. However, latest news disclosed that the company allegedly cheated how fast the said smartphone storage really is.
Samsung is a multinational tech company that is famous for designing and manufacturing high-end products that include consumer related appliances like television, refrigerators, washing machine and others. But the company is now well-known for producing advanced devices such as smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches. Now, its latest line of the handset, the Galaxy S8, is making a big buzz right now in the trade market.
Dubbed as "Project Dream" by Samsung, Galaxy S8 has caught the attention of consumers since last year. Many believed that it will start a new revolution for handset device due to its reported boastful design and features. But now, the South Korean tech company seems to have deceived its smartphone buyers on one aspect of its features.
According to BGR, Samsung appears may have lied about how fast the Galaxy S8 storage is. Minor issues on the phone like sudden restarts, red tint on the screen and Wi-Fi connectivity problems might have gotten away from user's criticism but the phone's storage is one of its important components.
Samsung introduces a built-in UFS 2.1 internal storage for the Galaxy S8 that appears to be the company's fastest flash storage for its wireless gadgets. But, the South Korean tech company has now completely removed the mention of UFS 2.1 storage from the device official specifications page.
Ubergizmo further added that Samsung appears to be using Toshiba's UFS 2.0 chips which is much slower that the UFS 2.1 version. UFS 2.1 storage yields more sequential read speeds of 800MB/s as against the 500MB/s of the UFS 2.0 chips. From this, users are obviously have been tricked by Galaxy S8 advertisement.
However, Samsung isn't the only company who has been lying about their phone's specification. Just recently, Huawei went the same criticisms on their P10 memory chip using a slower eMMC flash instead of high-speed UFS storage they've advertised. As of this moment, the South Korean tech giant has not yet released any statement regarding the Galaxy S8 controversy.
