Galaxy Note3 hints at a prelude for Super Speed USB3.0

Samsung Galaxy Note3 rolled-out this month and now available in the market with the spot-light of many media and followers almost same time of new iPhones.

Hardware features are not absolute decision point to make people buy products but still significant.

Galaxy Note3 is one of existing most powerful performance Smartphones in the world now and introduced fastest processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 800(hereafter it is called S800) for it.

Source: QCT

It is one chip to integrate AP(Application Processor) and CP(Communication Processor, Modem) and takes small size of area in the mother board.

Source: QCT

For the faster connectivity, S800 introduces 802.11ac Wi-Fi, USB3.0 Super Speed as well as BT4.0. It will bring many potential chances to utilize fast connectivity combined with LTE cellular network speed.

Source: Olleh Smart Blog

USB3.0 Super Speed has 5Gbps speed and backward compatibility for transfer. USB organization describes it as below with some characteristics:

• SuperSpeed USB has a 5 Gbps signaling rate offering 10x performance increase over Hi-Speed USB.
• SuperSpeed USB is a Sync-N-Go technology that minimizes user wait-time.
• SuperSpeed USB will provide Optimized Power Efficiency. No device polling and lower active and idle power requirements.
• SuperSpeed USB is backwards compatible with USB 2.0. Devices interoperate with USB 2.0 platforms. Hosts support USB 2.0 legacy devices.

Huge file transfer will cause many inconveniences to users to copy external devices to Smartphones and vice versa.

Source: USB org.

We can imagine some of benefits by the use of USB3.0 with something possible use cases.
- Faster tethering and better power consumption management
- Efficient and more productive file copy
- Faster direct copy from wireless connectivity
- 4K video direct recording to Storage incl. external storage

And many ideas will be available on this but there's still technical issue like I/O bottleneck because I/O speed among storage, processor and USB like I/Os.

But I compliment Samsung's huge effort to try new feature and looks like to try transform from fast follower to leader in innovation. 

You can find more information regarding USB3.0 and 3.1 as below link:

http://www.usb.org/developers/ssusb