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."

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Maybe I should just RTFA...

[pjt48108]

...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...

Apple vs Microsoft

[FunWithHeadlines]

"The 3GB hard drive is similar to the type of hard drive that is found in Apple's Mini iPod."

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?

Re:Apple vs Microsoft

[kin_korn_karn]

It's interesting how everyday devices are getting less and less stable. My new DVD drive has locked up on me several times. My PVR/cable box has unceremoniously virtual-BSOD and restarted several times, cars electronics are crashing, and soon cell phones. Progress?
It's progress for the following people:

- the manufacturer who gets to sell you another one
- the shipping carrier who couriers the RMA package from
- the retailer who gets to sell you another one or maybe something else while you're there
- the tech support rep who gets to log another call
- the manufacturer again when they refurb your device and sell it to a bargain basement OEM
- the OEM who makes a tidy profit on the refurbed parts sold as new

The disposable culture is a huge step backward for society, but because so many people can make money off of it, it's considered progress, at least in legal terms.

Battery life

[ColonelFubster]

Those hard drives must be hell on battery life, low-power or not.

Re:Amazing how far things have come

[Golias]

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!?!?!?

Re:My cell phone...

[Dejohn]

Then this is probably not the device for you. Don't buy it?

I know this is touted as "convergence"...

[jpellino]

...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.