A couple of years back, the Nand Flash was unheard of. And, now take a look at the sea of changes in the usage of Nand Flash-based application for the storage media in today‚s CE space. It‚s the miraculous Nand Flash which saves power; cuts cost of ownership in any application and has very high MTBF. Its miniature size saves mechanical frictions and has no heating problem. And, its biggest plus point is that this technology is now available up to16GB size. The USB Flash disk drive was the first to make inroads into the mass consumer use of Nand flash technology for mobile personal storage. iPod made a great use of it by revolutionizing the way music was being carried and enjoyed.
Following the proliferation of MP3 Players, usage of flash as a utility storage solution became a mass-appeal product. MP4 is aimed at carrying your home entertainment anywhere you travel.
Telecom users never thought that they will have so many solutions and applications built around Flash cards as the storage medium. Today, we easily expect music tones, email access, AV function, picture transfers, and even we expect TV to start running on mobile handsets. The base of the memory for the mobile devices is the Flash memory. With so many varieties of telecom appliances in the mobile handsets and PDAs, the Flash technology has made it extremely easy. Don‚t be surprised! if you get a native storage of 100GB capacity on a mobile phone soon.
SSD has already become the buzzword in the CES show USA last month. Many laptop manufacturing companies have already announced a few models with SSD. Solid State Drive will bring an age of large capacities replacement time from conventional HDDs. Some of the fantastic products have been introduced in the market during the last quarter. One of them is Eee PC from ASUS ˆ a tiny laptop with 4GB native storage. It is most popular in the international market as the product serves both the purpose of net surfing with 4GB within and the USB port having access to the external USB flash drive makes the product size small, power-efficient and beautiful in design
Digital Photo Frames have the Flash Cards readers displaying pictures you have captured and can also play MP3 music. All the car stereos have started coming with the USB, which has made a tremendous change in the car music. There is no need now to carry many CDs in your car. Just have one 8GB USB flash drive and you can comfortably have 2,000 songs.
New-generation DVDs have USB feature, which makes the usage of flash drives versatile. You can play high quality Home Theatre music in your living room. New generation has a fashion statement asking any electronic gadget must have USB flash drive option. I was taking a test drive of the German car BMW. The demonstrator made a big statement that it has an 8 CD changer. I told him that the Germans are so backward that they still don‚t have USB Flash drive connectivity to music. Soon we will start having TVs with Flash used as the small native storage which will provide miraculous options.
Flash technology is the future of IT and consumer electronics in the world.
