Seagate Adds Gigabytes to Your Phone

[Soham]

Seagate has found yet another use for its tiny hard drives. Their hope is that starting this summer, you'll be able to tote 10 GB of data with you wherever you go -- accessible through your cell phone.

The company's showing off the technology at the DEMO 07 conference, under the moniker DAVE (Digital Audio Video Experience). DAVE products are promised to be about the size of a credit card and less than 0.5'' thick.

Now why would you want to attack something that size to your cell phone? Actually, you wouldn't. You'd connect to the DAVE device through Bluetooth, or possibly Wi-Fi. Files would be accessed through a small Java application on the phone. Think about it -- you'd be able to keep all your data in your pocket, but be able to access it at any time with a few button presses.

Seagate expects the first 10 GB DAVE devices to sell for about $150 this summer, with 20 GB devices to follow. The question that remains is, whatever will you do with all that data always available at your fingertips?

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[primexx]

what if you loose it?

[Soham]

it is like a credit card.

[L3thal Veteran]

what if you loose it?

Buy another? :unsure:

[Login_Here]

what if you loose it?

Considering the size, it should fit pretty well in a wallet.

[pyehac]

Now why would you want to attack something that size to your cell phone?

Attack? I hope they mean attach.

The question that remains is, whatever will you do with all that data always available at your fingertips?

Lets just hope that phone manufactures won't put limits on the amount of songs you can hold.

[ahfunaki]

that would be really really cool...

i can already think of things i could use it for. i have a windows mobile phone that i use gps on and right now i can only load so many maps on my minisd card. this way you could load all of north america and still have tons of space for music, movies and such...

[Allan]

that would be really really cool...

i can already think of things i could use it for. i have a windows mobile phone that i use gps on and right now i can only load so many maps on my minisd card. this way you could load all of north america and still have tons of space for music, movies and such...

that was EXACTLY my first thought!

[Echilon]

Great to hear. With hard drives, smaller and bigger is better ;)

[DanManIt]

This could be really good. I like the idea of storing regular files on a phone like an external hard drive.

[I am Reid]

Isnt it going to need a battery

[SimplyPotatoes]

This is the wrong type of new micro storage to invest in.