Wireless Portable Cell Phone Drive Unveiled

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.

Comments

Dupe...

[LiquidCoooled]

DAVE: Hello, HAL do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, DAVE, I read you.
DAVE: Can you check for dupes please?
HAL: I'm sorry DAVE, I'm afraid I can't do that.

Here

Car audio

[Joebert]

I can't wait to attempt a DRM protected transfer from this thing to my car stereo, just so I can hear the stereo give me the error, "I'm sorry, I can't do that dave".

Sharing?

[eggoeater]

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.

Not that new.

[Lumpy]

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.

Useful, but

[SighKoPath]

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.

Unless your carrier is Verizon...

[timbck2]

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

Pics and video...

[Odiumjunkie]

here

I am sick of these bullshit promises

[gelfling]

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.

Re:I am sick of these bullshit promises

[Tony Hoyle]

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.

Re:I am sick of these bullshit promises

[silas_moeckel]

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.

Re:I am sick of these bullshit promises

[SaDan]

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

Re:I am sick of these bullshit promises

[Mr. Underbridge]

Or pay for your phone yourself and get an uncrippled one. Or move away from the US and even get an uncrippled subsidized one. Your horizon seems quite narrow.

Yes, dipshit, I think most people's horizons are too narrow to actually MOVE TO A DIFFERENT COUNTRY to get a better cell phone. If you actually did that, you're probably insane.

Re:I am sick of these bullshit promises

[MoreDruid]

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.

Re:I am sick of these bullshit promises

[QuickFox]

Yes, dipshit, I think most people's horizons are too narrow to actually MOVE TO A DIFFERENT COUNTRY to get a better cell phone. The nationalistic pride that you Americans display really goes too far sometimes. Come on, if you'd just look a little further, there's a whole world out there, full of fascinating possibilities and opportunities. You could save several cents on your phone bill by moving to Europe.