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Mass Storage For Phones

Posted by kdawson on from the pocket-jukebox dept.

The Demo conference started today, and the first news out of it comes from Seagate, which will be introducing pocket-sized, 20-GB, Bluetooth-equipped drives for cellphones this summer. They call this tech "DAVE" (one wonders whether the acronym or the expansion came first). Quoting: "DAVE-based products will be about the size of a credit card and less than half and inch thick, with an operating range of up to 30 feet from the connected phone... Software to hook the drives up to cellphones has already been produced for J2ME, BREW, Windows Mobile, Symbian and XCCC. Palm compatibility is forthcoming. The platform is open source..."

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  1. Security? by Edis+Krad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now, I haven't red TFA, but I'm hoping it has some sort of security/encryption support. What's the chance of someone in a 30ft radius peeking at the 10Gbs of data I'm carrying in my pocket, just using another cellphone?...

  2. Isn't bluetooth sloooooow? by schwaang · · Score: 5, Insightful

    TFA is verrry light on technical details, but even bluetooth 2.0 is something like 3Mb/s. So transfering 10GB would take what, like 2 hours?

    What I'm saying is it's fine for streaming LUG Radio, but not great for backing up your pr0n to something you can leave hidden under the mattress.

    1. Re:Isn't bluetooth sloooooow? by suv4x4 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      bluetooth 2.0 is something like 3Mb/s. .... not great for backing up your pr0n ...

      Is this the most compelling rant you can pull off? And do you realize bluetooth is just one option, the devices implementing DAVE can also provide USB transfer?

      I suppose the only reason for bluetooth inside is because they saw some empty space in the drive left underutilized. A disk is circle, and the component is square. Catch my drift?

      In a mobile device, every tiny bit of space counts, hence having built-in bluetooth makes DAVE more competitive.

  3. Re:iphone by john82 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In the Mac community, will Thursby Software have anything to say? Their product DAVE, note that the name is also presented in uppercase, has been in the Mac arena for more than a decade.

  4. Re:worries by timmarhy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    if you can't imagine using 20 gigs with a mobile device, then you simply lack imagination.

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