Smartphone ‘mode’ can speed up devices and lengthen battery life

Phones, tablets and other devices slow down over time, no matter how expensive or cutting edge they were when you bought them. Now, researchers from Hanyang University in Korea claim a technology they developed can delay the inevitable. It’s called   WALDIO or Write Ahead Logging Direct IO, and according to team leader Professor You-jip Won, it’s a mode that extends battery life and speeds up phones by minimizing the amount of data a device records. “The core of the newly-developed technology is to record a small amount of data,” Won said. “This tech will make it possible to use low-priced flash memory for a long time, like expensive flash memory.”

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