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Samsung Introduces Phone With Hard Drive

Posted by timothy on from the can-you-store-me-now dept.

swight1701 writes "It is being reported that Samsung has shown what it claims is the world's first mobile phone that incorporates a hard drive. The model, V5400, is integrated with a 1" hard drive with 1.5GB of capacity. Other features of the phone include - 2.2" LCD display, an MP3 player, electronic book reader, and Korean-English dictionary. Samsung has also included a built-in microphone to enhance the audio in the phone's camcorder feature. The included dual-speakers allow the user to listen to music with a 3D appeal." loid_void adds a link to this Reuters story, too.

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  1. Oh good by ArchieBunker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Music through speakers the size of a dime, thats gotta sound great. Whatever happened to doing one thing and doing it well?

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  2. Why not Flash? by BlastM · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hard drives are fragile, especially for portable devices. A better solution would have been 1.5GB of solid state memory like an included Secure Digital card slot, or built in Compact Flash. Why was a hard drive chosen? I have a feeling this is all a gimmick to satisfy the new HDD craze that Apple has driven.

    1. Re:Why not Flash? by TheUnFounded · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I have a feeling this is all a gimmick to satisfy the new HDD craze that Apple has driven.

      You know, I sincerely doubt that any greater than 2% of the population has a clue that the iPod uses a HDD. All anyone in the general population cares about is "hey, this thing can hold X days of music and still have room for X pictures!!"

  3. Re:Most important feature.. by Jason1729 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a phone, it's meant to be thrown around. It's built to take that kind of abuse because the manufacturer understood how people use cell phones. I have no trouble with dropping my powerbook, but then quite often I leave the PB home because I know I'm going somewhere it might get banged around.

    I've never dropped my PDA, but it spends a lot of time in my backback which gets thrown around. If it had a hard drive, it also wouldn't survive.

    If I have to leave the cellphone home because I'm worried it might get damaged, then it's completely useless.

    Jason
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  4. User interface by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The trouble with a device that gets too rich in features is that the user interface tends to get ugly. It means that most people don't use three quarters of the features.

    Given Moore's law, we can predict that this kind of thing will cost $100 in a couple of years. I think that the company that prospers will be the one that can make it work the way people want it to work. Otherwise, all they're doing is kludging a bunch of stuff just because they can.

  5. Proof of progress. by Trifthen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You know... it's days like this when I can't help but stop and realize the sheer disparity between now and ten years ago. Then: I'd just bought a new 486 with a 120MB hard drive - now: you can get a phone with over 10x the storage capacity, and probably more processing power.

    Sometimes it may not seem like it, but we really have come a long way.

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