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Samsung Cell Phone Features 3GB Hard Drive
An anonymous reader writes "Samsung will be showing off a new cell phone which runs on Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system which features a built-in hard drive. The SGH-I300 will offer 3GB of storage which allows you to store up to 1,000 songs on it for playback through the music player. The 3GB hard drive is similar to the type of hard drive that is found in Apple's Mini iPod. These 1-inch drives with very low power requirements, are ideal for cell phones and other mobile devices."
yay. thanks.
My cell phone does not need:
Camera
Pop Music Ring Tones
Color Display
Java
Videogames
Internet Access
I just want a phone. That will last me all week without having to recharge it, talking on it 2 hours a day. And it has to be small and light, and it can't break if I drop it on the floor. Waterproof would be nice. And it needs to hold about 400-500 phone numbers. Fewer dropped calls and better reception would be nice as well.
...but how long do you think it will be, before this opens up the door to massive conversation-recording? All it needs is an ambitious hacker, right? You have the phone, and you have an integrated audio storage device. Oy, the possibilities...
Mmmmmm... Bold, yet refreshing!
But Apple has the good sense not to try to cram OS X-mini onto the iPod hard disk. Instead a much simpler, special purpose OS does the job simply and well. But cram Windows-mini onto a hard disk, and well, you've wasted a lot of space for no real valid reason.
Plus the delicious treat of viruses headed your way as a brand new target sits there and says, "Attack me, please."
Why can't people realize that special-purpose devices work best with special-purpose OSes?
I never tought I was gonna see this at slashdot, it is mainly marketing buzzwords. How many songs depends on bitrate! If they by this means that the FS only can handle 1,000 files (I guess not), then this is bad.
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Every time there's an article on mobile phones on Slashdot, there's some smug little luddite like yourself posts: why isn't a phone just a phone and a word processor just a typewriter? Why does it need a hard drive? Because I carry a HDD-based music player and a phone and I'd rather just carry one device that dips the volume on my music when the phone rings, like the mp3 players in phones used to, but with more storage. Who are you to tell me I shouldn't have that? Who are you to say a very successful company hasn't done their market research? Just go back to sleep...
This is silly. Every time a new cell phone appears which has features somebody doesn't like, they post another ridiculous rant like yours, as if nobody should ever manufacture something YOU don't want.
Did Jesus die and leave you in charge? Is your name GW Bush by any chance?
And some other idiot moderated your post as insightful. Yeh, right.
Infuriate left and right
Those hard drives must be hell on battery life, low-power or not.
:-M
Makes you wonder if we'll have 120 and 200GB drives in our cell phones in 2015 :worry:
You worry about that?
Luddite.
By 2015, I want a cell phone with a 200GB HD installed sub-dermally in my jaw!
And where's my damn flying car!?!?!?
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Personally, I don't even want a portable phone, as people tend to annoy me.
When will this end? What's next, a pacemaker with built-in mp3?
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Can you play the MP3's as hold music?
...but come on - I guess I could conceivably end up with an uber-gadget that is my phone, gps, iPod, PDA, universal remote, pedometer, Speedpass, web browser, biometric verifier, flash drive, camera, pager, video player, voice activated game console, garage door opener, pill timer, and nose hair trimmer, but do I want it?
It's pretty much the current definition of jack of all trades, master of none. The browsers all suck wind from the first click. No way the phone camera matches the 4MP with optical zoom and full controls. With my luck, I'd go to open the garage door and dial the Pentagon, who'd read the fix from my GPS and catch me screaming "Attack! Attack! - No, use the sniper rifle!" in the middle of a Halo session...
So it's really just a away of any one manufacturer making sure you buy the whiz-bangiest phone instead of someone else's.
What if I lose it? Right now I keep track of my GPS, iPod, camera and cell phone. Suppose I lose one device. I'm either out a copy of my music, or my most recent photos, or a location fix, or my phone. Lose the uber-device and I'm out all of them at once.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Just dropping? What about getting pissed off and throwing it across the room. Or what about drunken stoopers where you drop it in the toilet! hasn't happened to me, but many a friend. cell phones now can dry and and be usable, but what about ones with a disk drive?
It's not needed - none of it is needed. The questions are: is it possible? is there a market? is there a reason not to?
It's hypocritical reading this site then not allowing the same enthusiasm that applies to computers, software, television etc. to be expressed about mobile phones just because they're not as popular in America as in Europe and Japan.
We Europeans don't jump on the HDTV stories as soon as there posted and say 'why's that needed?'... even if we do think it ;)
Makes you wonder if we'll have 120 and 200GB drives in our cell phones in 2015 :worry:
Why would a phone need a hard drive in the future? I would imagine you could have an advanced wi-fi type internet phone, that does VOIP, and allows you to access your home network to allow you to stream music and movies directly to your phone. It would also be able to take pictures/video and stream them directly to your computer at home.
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The question I've not seen asked yet is this:
What happens when you drop it?
Hard drives typically don't like being dropped. Cell phones, being handheld devices, stand a good chance of getting dropped. I fumblefingered my Ericsson T610 within 24 hours of getting it. It has a ding in the case where it hit the pavement, but it still works. A few years ago, I had a Motorola i1000 fly out the passenger window onto a freeway overpass. I parked my car, walked out onto the overpass, and retrieved the phone. It was a little bit scratched up, but it still worked. Will you be able to say the same for a hard-drive-equipped cell phone after it slipped and fell?
Flash storage density is up to at least 4 GB now. (That's the largest CompactFlash card (not a Microdrive) I've seen at Fry's; there might well be something even larger on the market already.) That would be a better match for a cell phone than a hard drive. Flash doesn't suffer head crashes when it's dropped.
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
- Camcorder
- mp3 player
- digital camera
- PDA
- personal video player
- personal tv (??!)
- cellphone
or I could just lose my:- cellphone
All this consolidation isn't a boon. I don't have masses of electronic items lying around waiting to get lost and honestly the only thing a phone should have in addition to the phone is the pda feature, since it can tell time and has a calendar. Everything else is extravagance that only adds to the price the manufacturer can charge. Better make sure to get that extended warranty/replacement plan!