1" Hard Drives in Cellphones on the Rise

Tomo Hiratsuka writes "The imminent 10Gb 1-inch hard drives we've been hearing about have been well covered but the maker, Cornice, reckons its product could end up in over 70 million cellphones by 2009. Kevin Magenis, one of the company founders, isn't shy about pointing out that this is 30 million units more than predicted DAP sales."

Comments

whats the fascination with stuff that breaks?

[Shivetya]

I do not want a harddrive in my phone. My phone gets more abuse than any other gadget I have. Granted its cheaper than using flash but hell I would rather pay for something that isn't going to possibly be toast when it bounces once off the pavement.

"... by 2009..."

[Slartibartfast]

Huh? Why, in the world, have a 10 GB HD, when -- by 2009 -- you'll be able to have (for a slightly higher premium) 8 GB of flash? Lessee:

Flash uses less energy
Doesn't need to spin up
Won't "crash" [flash can have its own problems, but the heads ain't one of 'em]
Can be easily extracted and plugged into external devices
Etc.

I love hard drives, but the super-duper-really-small stuff has never (and, IMHO, will never) catch on; flash has that pretty much sewn up.

battery life

[stud9920]

moving parts is just what my anemic battery needs.

Re:Who would need this?

[dcsmith]

Who has that many friends that they need a 10GB hard drive to store all their phone numbers?

Yeah, becasue no one wants to use their phone for anything except making and receiving phone calls. Except taking photos. And surfing the internet. An sending e-mail. And, these days, watching streaming video. Besides that, nothing at all. Except for rest of the stuff I missed.