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Wireless Portable Cell Phone Drive Unveiled

Posted by Zonk on from the handy-little-guy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to Ars Technica Seagate has unveiled a new portable drive that fits in the palm of your hand and has a 20GB capacity, but most importantly features Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity. It's called DAVE, which stands for Digital Audio Video Experience and it lets you stream music, videos and other data to your mobile. It can also interact with a variety of other devices, such as PDAs, laptops, PCs and cameras, making it perfect for transferring data from your phone to another device or vice versa." Update: 02/02 14:06 GMT by Z : Indeed, you may have enjoyed our recent discussion on this technology. Feel free to draw from it for another round of portable-cell-drive-related conversation.

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  1. First Dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative


    http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/ 31/0124237

  2. Pics and video... by Odiumjunkie · · Score: 4, Informative

    here

  3. I am sick of these bullshit promises by gelfling · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have 5 phones in my house that all in theory have the ability to mate with my PC to do 'something'. But here's the funny part. Only one does and only through Bluetooth and only in a very limited way. The rest, well you can BUY a cable to connect them but in fact there is no software in existence in the world that can make any use of it. Not even the 'software' you can buy with the cable. All it can do, and this is a crapshoot at best, is sometimes enable your cell phone to be a modem.

    Carriers specify that all the other features be crippled because they want you to use THEIR services. Why synch jpegs with your PC when you can PAY to use picturemail? Why download ringtones when you can BUY them.

    So let's just put away these bullshit promises already. Phones do what carriers allow them to do. Does anyone seriously believe that with a 30GB harddrive that the carriers won't DEMAND you down load all your content from them? Does anyone seriously believe that there will ever be PDA-like software that can sync the phone to the PC? Stop smoking weed, please.

    1. Re:I am sick of these bullshit promises by silas_moeckel · · Score: 2, Informative

      Sounds like your phone carrier likes to cripple there phones. If your carrier is GSM get an unlocked phone and do whatever you would like they are not that expensive.

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      No sir I dont like it.
    2. Re:I am sick of these bullshit promises by SaDan · · Score: 3, Informative

      Or get a non-locked phone. The carrier only screws with phones they subsidize.