Samsung enables 4GB storage on cell phone

We get a large number of mobile phones promising the earth in features. These phones play video, audio, store other files, and a lot of third party applications can be installed on them. However, the base memory available on the phone is almost always very limited, and users have to buy extra memory storage. In the rush to make mobile phones smaller, or to fit more features while keeping the same size, this storage slot takes up a fair amount of the space.
Now Samsung has managed to put 4 GB of storage on a mobile phone chip set that could free up the need for putting external storage, thus also freeing up the space needed for an extra memory slot. It also means that users may not have the option anymore to not buy the extra card; it also means that users do not have to do the double tasks of first buying a phone, and then discovering that unless they buy an external card, all the promise of storing a number of songs is going to fall flat. Refer this article:

Samsung Electronics Co. has squeezed 4GB of storage into a mobile phone chip set that the manufacturer believes could eliminate the need for external memory card slots.
The embedded multichip system, called moviMCP, packs several memory functions into one unit, removing the need for an external expansion slot and thus freeing up space in tightly packed mobile phones, the company said Wednesday. The package includes two 16Gbit NAND flash chips and a controller, a 1Gbit mobile DRAM chip to support the processor, and a 2Gbit NAND flash chip for general handset operations.
The new multichip package will allow handset manufacturers not only to design smaller phones with higher storage capacity but also to significantly reduce the time required to develop these products, Samsung said.

Even though this could take some time to come to the market, this is overall a pretty positive development, and maybe contribute to the march of the mobile phone as the one device to carry everything. Add much more space, and this could be the mobile computer, with display and typing being the only restrictions.