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Samsung Galaxy S10 teardown confirms UFS 2.1 storage while the Galaxy Fold supports UFS 3.0
TechInsights has done a teardown of the Exynos Samsung Galaxy S10+, confirming that the phone has UFS 2.1 storage. The Galaxy Fold will have UFS 3.0.
There are five days left until the Samsung Galaxy S10, S10+, and S10e go on sale in the US, Europe, India, and other markets in the globe. In terms of internal hardware, the phones come in two variants: a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 variant for US/China/Latin America, and an Exynos 9820 variant for the rest of the world. One thing we didn't know about up until now was the storage specification of the phones. Samsung has been using UFS storage since the Samsung Galaxy S6, and the company's 2018 phones used UFS 2.1 NAND. Last year, a few rumors alleged that the Galaxy S10 series would have UFS 3.0 storage, but a TechInsights teardown reveals that the rumor didn't pan out.
Samsung is now making 1TB UFS chips for mobile devices
Samsung just announced that they started mass producing of 1TB UFS 2.1 chips. It is rumored the Galaxy S10+ will be announced with 1TB internal storage.
Samsung is the largest flash storage manufacturer in the smartphone industry. They supply Universal Flash Storage units for so many OEMs. The company just announced that they started mass producing of 1TB UFS 2.1 chips. Samsung has only gone as far as 512GB on the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 model last year. It is also rumored that the Samsung Galaxy S10+ will be announced with 1TB internal storage, which automatically means that it will use UFS 2.1 instead of expected UFS 3.0.
The Hardware Lottery Continues: Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ Varies Between UFS 2.0 and UFS 2.1
The Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ can feature either UFS 2.1 or UFS 2.0 for storage, leaving consumers in a fix. Read on to know more about this issue!
A few weeks ago, it was reported that Huawei undertook some controversial decisions with the Huawei P10 and P10 Plus. In a nutshell, the Huawei P10 and the P10 Plus could feature any combination of LPDDR3 or LPDDR4 for the RAM and eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, or UFS 2.1 for the storage. This essentially made purchasing the device a hardware lottery as you're paying the same price for the device as anyone else, but the device you bought could be objectively worse than someone else's P10/P10+.