A
researcher in southern Taiwan has developed a potentially energy-saving
technology that he says allows smartphones to boot up in as little as six
seconds.
"When
I looked at the code in the operating system relating to power-saving, I
realized there was a more efficient way to code it and started looking into
it," said Lo Shi-wu, an assistant professor of computer science and
information engineering at National Chung Cheng University.
On average,
it takes 40 seconds for most devices to turn on, according to the researcher.
Lo
explained Monday that this technology could save energy by encouraging people
to switch off their phones when not in use, something many people currently
avoid because they feel turning the phone back on when they want to use it can
take too long.
Calling his
invention an improvement on other energy-saving designs for phones, Lo said it
works based on the random access ability of flash memory.
The
technology has been patented in Taiwan and South Korea and has already been
transferred to several major chip and software companies, Lo said, without
specifying the companies.
While it
has obvious applications in mobile devices running Google's Android operating
system and internet-capable devices, Lo suggested that in the future, car
computers and Web-based TV services, such as Chunghwa Telecom's Multimedia on
Demand (MOD), could integrate it as well.
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