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1" Hard Drives in Cellphones on the Rise

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the coming-to-the-tipping-point dept.

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."

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  1. That depends. by AltGrendel · · Score: 0, Troll

    Kevin Magenis, one of the company founders, isn't shy about pointing out that this is 30 million units more than predicted DAP sales."
    What if they use RAID5?

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  2. What do I need a hard drive on my phone?? by gd23ka · · Score: 1, Troll

    Since all phones are locked down DRM-wise why do I need a hard drive in them? Give me an open platform where I have complete access to the integrated phone and I'm interested. Not that anybody is going to especially when you look at providers like Verizon who go out of their way to cripple their customers phones instead.

  3. What's interesting about this... by Sheetrock · · Score: 1, Troll
    The size of the R/W (read/write) heads is the second-biggest determinant, after the size of the platter(s), of the size of the drive.

    By harnessing the power of the microwaves inherent in the phone -- part of the electromagnetic spectrim -- it's possible to write to the drives simply by beaming the proper electromagnetic frequencies at the platters, and to read from the drives by doing the same thing in reverse.

    Unfortunately, 10GB is probably as dense as these things can get, scientifically speaking.

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