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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."
The friendly article is pretty light on details, given it's overclockerclub.com.
Engadget stated that the phone supports MP3, WMA, AAC, and AAC+ audio files, and a plug-and-play drag-and-drop no-brainer way of transferring files as you please.
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That's amazing how far things have come. I remember only ten years ago we were lucky to have 3GB in a desktop computer let alone something like a phone :lol:. then again most of us didn't have or need cellphones :shakehead:
:worry:
Makes you wonder if we'll have 120 and 200GB drives in our cell phones in 2015
yay. thanks.
...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...
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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?
Samsung announced today their new line of hernia belts and corsets. "These will keep our customers from injuring themselves when they have to lift our new phone," said the CEO of Samsung.
...unit of memory? I guess we can blame it on Apple. How long before we start seeing hard drives advertised as storing megasongs or gigasongs? My first computer didn't even hold a millisong!
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So get a Nokia 6010, T-Mobile's bottom of the line, and quit your bitching.
There are plenty of cheap, boring phones that work primarily as phones. They don't get much attention from the tech press because they don't have any useless whizbang features.
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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...
I want a cell phone that doesnt recieve calls.
I want it to take good pictures, check my email, sync to my server, play music, browse the web and have a fold out QWERTY keyboard.. I want a big color screen, weeks of battery life, kinetic charging, and it needs to fit in my pocket and be very light.
but it should NEVER recieve incoming calls, thats just a nuisance and needless distraction.
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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.
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Those hard drives must be hell on battery life, low-power or not.
:-M
...you still won't be able to get anything onto or off of that drive without paying for both a monthly subscription and a per-file fee.
(USCC will sell you a camera phone, but thy have disabled the phone to disallow the use of a local connection cable to upload or download any audio or graphics. Nice, huh.)
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
3GB?!? That's 3x more HD space than this Sparcstation5 I'm trying to install linux on. Cripes!
Exactly.
Make my phone a phone. I already have a laptop. Just make the phone work more reliably and for longer periods at a time.
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Then this is probably not the device for you. Don't buy it?
Is a cell phone that does everything. Yes, I've heard the whining from people who just want a cell phone to be a phone, but from my perspective, the fewer devices I have to manage, the better.
Imagine you're going on vacation. You could pack:
- Your camcorder
- MP3 player
- digital camera
- PDA
- Personal video player
- Personal tv
- Cellphone
Or, you could just take your:Right now, we do have the technology to incorporate all of these features into one device with the form factor of a small notebook or PDA. Instead, people spend 5 times the amount of money on discrete appliances, and then have the added burden of having to carry them all. And then they whine because their phone isn't just a phone - as if they enjoy having dozens of electronic gadgets lying around the house, waiting to get lost, stolen, forgotten, etc...
I'm tired of using a dozen different gadgets to do what could easily be integrated into one. If cellphone manufacturers are going to break into new markets, their phones are going to have to be more than just phones.
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Do you think in some secret lab somewhere deep within the walls of a mobile phone company there are prototypes of cell phones with all sorts of things attached to them?
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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?
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"I just want a phone."
Whoop-de-shit. Why'd you even read the article to begin with?
I wouldn't mind, but this exact same stupid comment keeps getting modded up in every single "coooool cell phone!" story. Frankly, it's getting old, and it's really starting to smell like a cheap "gimme karma" comment.
"Derp de derp."
Nah, it's not about if you need one or not (of course you do). What I'd need to be convinced about is, will the hard drive survive when I drop the phone while riding a bicycle and it hits the pavement and it's parts are thrown all around. Any current phone can handle that kind of repeated abuse pretty well (well, at least my Nokias have...).
No, mobile phone isn't a place for moving parts... Solid state all the way is the only way.
Can you play the MP3's as hold music?
I mean, it is rather ralatively lackluster on detail, but if the HD is only for song and photo snapshot this is a utter waste. It would be interresting if this can also be used to save SMS data (and on 3 gb you can save a lot) or phone call... THAT last feature would be rather nice. There is a lot of phone call I would wish I had a way to save it ...
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...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.
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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 ;)
Thats how my Nokia 9500 Communicator gets when I don't pay my phone bill
I agree. Cameras are the worst thing that has ever happened to the cell phone industry. I wish the companikes would concentrate on the phone part, and once we matered that, then move to new things.
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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.
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So, my phone is just about as basic as it could get, and most of the bare minimum features it came with, I'm just not using. I store about two dozen phone numbers on it, I call people, I accept incoming calls, and I use my voicemail. I've never used text messaging, or played a game on my cell phone. I don't want my phone to be a substandard camera; if I want to take pictures I want a multi-megapixel digital jobbie with real optics in it. I think pop music ringtones are just stupid; I keep my phone in my pocket on vibrate most of the time just so I don't come off as a giant anus every time someone rings me up when I'm in a public place.
But, instead of just ranting about how I think all this extra whizz-bang is wasteful, stupid, and whatnot, I spent a couple minutes thinking about what I *would* like to have in my cellphone. What extra feature would I pay to have? I've got a good idea. A genius one:
Television and Radio. Once, many years ago, I owned a handheld backlit LCD television. It was a thing of beauty; a few ounces of mass, a two-inch screen, and a telescoping antenna. It was great to have in lots of places. It had a 1/8" mono jack for plugging in headphones or an earpiece. Its integrated speaker was adequate as well.
Now, this was about ten years ago. I know the technology for LCDs has come a long way. I know that device would easily fit into a cellphone today. So, do it. And add AM/FM radio. Then, give me TiVo functionality for the TV and radio (I'm sure the television video scaled down for the phone display would compress pretty damn well!). If my phone had all that, I could justify paying for a hard drive in it.
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Windows on a Cell phone? I can see it how: "Hey man, I lost you, did you drive under a tunnel or something?" "No... My phone just BSOD'ed."
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Go to any cell phone store and ask to see the least expensive phone they stock. Sure, companies will try to sell you a feature-packed phone, but there are always options that involve little cash for a very low-end phone.
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..but your call cannot be completed at this time. Please run a complete surface scan and try your call again. This is a recording."
If the drives are modular and easily removable, I smell a great line of repair work to get into.
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I know Verizon does the same thing, so that they can sell you ringtones and graphics, and charge you for data transfers with the data plans. Since I got AT&T (now Cingular) I'm able to transfer sounds (ringtones) pictures and themes over BlueTooth (USB optional) to my computer without hassle. That alone is worth getting Cingular (the excellent nationwide coverage, kick-ass GSM phones and rollover minutes are also nice). The only thing you can't transfer directly to the computer is the games. US Cellular is quite possibly the most user-hostile provider in existence, not to mention being expensive and using the crappy CDMA network and phones.
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