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The logo of Samsung Electronics is seen at the company headquarters in Seoul March 13, 2009. Reuters/Lee Jae-Won

Samsung is currently working on the Galaxy S6, the flagship smartphone that is poised for release in the coming year. It has been rumoured that Samsung has given the Galaxy S6 smartphone the codename 'Project Zero' as the company is aiming to construct it from the ground up.

On the first week of this month, International Business Times reported about the speculated Samsung Galaxy S6 specifications, and in the previous week IBTimes also reported that the handset may feature a dual-edge curved display along with Snapdragon 810 SoC. Now, the Korean website ETNews has revealed that the Galaxy S6 will feature the high-speed Universal Flash Storage, or UFS, 2.0 NAND Flash storage, reports SamMobile. According to the source, the existing eMMC NAND Flash allows users to transfer files at a speed of 4000 MB per second.

What about the new UFS 2.0 NAND Flash storage? It can transfer files at super-fast speeds of 1.2 GB per second. Such a high-speed bandwidth is vital for users who wish to download huge files like 4K videos through faster Internet connections such as LTE=Advanced.

According to SamMobile, another good thing about the new storage technology is that it does not negatively impact the battery life of the device. In comparison with the existing eMMC 5.0, the newer storage technology eats up only half the power. It indicates that the upcoming Samsung devices including the Galaxy S6 may not feature a microSD card but a UFS-based storage.

According to GforGames, the rumour of the new storage solution from Samsung comes at a time when 128 GB and 64 iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus users have complained about crashing and rebooting issues. Samsung is not the only company that is speculated to use the newer UFS storage solution as even Xiaomi is rumoured to feature it in its future devices.

SamMobile states that leading flash storage manufacturing companies such as Hynix, Micron and Toshiba are supporting the UFS 2.0 NAND Flash storage solution. If the South Korean tech giant brings the new storage solution to the Galaxy S6, the handset will also feature microUSB v3.0 to support higher data transfer speed.