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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. Dupe... by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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  2. Car audio by Joebert · · Score: 4, Funny

    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".

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  3. 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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  4. 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.

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

    here

  7. 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.

  8. 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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