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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. Sharing? by eggoeater · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder how the MAFIAA will feel about people using this device to share music to multiple devices?
    They'll probably try to outlaw it.


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  2. Not that new. by Lumpy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My second Generation Aireo had a 20 gig drive that was smaller and thinner than a matchbox that took quite a pounding and survived. I think Hitachi has had sub 1 inch drives available for a really long time as well.

    Now, get the power draw to below that of Flash and they have something. Inside cellphones power useage is everything. My Razr lasts 6 times longer than my blackberry does or the treo did.

    People want longer battery life way more than being able to download at $0.99 each (Plus airtime) 20 gigs of music on their phone.

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  3. Useful, but by SighKoPath · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder how strong DAVE's security is? Will malicious individuals be able to snoop into my files? I see no mention of security anywhere in the article.

  4. Unless your carrier is Verizon... by timbck2 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...in which case this would be useless to you, since Verizon disables Bluetooth file transfer on their phones.

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  5. Re:I am sick of these bullshit promises by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

    Get a new carrier. No good carrier would restrict a phone in the manner you describe - only a crappy one.

  6. Re:I am sick of these bullshit promises by MoreDruid · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anyone seriously believe that there will ever be PDA-like software that can sync the phone to the PC? Stop smoking weed, please.
    just buy a smartphone. ActiveSync will do the synchronization for you and you're allowed to do filetransfer so you can up/download sounds/pictures/whatever.

    for the record, I've stopped smoking weed a long time ago, and my smartphone has been doing exactly what you want for more than 2 years now.

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