TechZ
January 31st, 2007, 11:13 AM
Seagate Technology and Motorola both said Tuesday they had invested in the portable storage market, hoping to meet a rising need by users of cell phones and smartphones to carry gigabytes of digital photos and music in their pockets. Seagate unveiled a wireless 10GB to 20GB storage device, intended to fit in users' pockets and allow them to store and share digital files between mobile phones, PCs, and other mobile platforms. This Digital Audio Video Experience (DAVE) uses a one-inch hard drive to trade files with other platforms up to 30 feet (9.1 meters) away using Bluetooth or Wi-Fi networking. The company will begin selling DAVE to telecommunications providers and mobile phone makers in the second quarter of 2007, to be resold under their own brands.
Electronics manufacturers will use DAVE to boost storage capacity without increasing the size or cost of retail cell phones, and content providers will use it to deliver video files without latency or coverage problems, since the files can be downloaded to the hardware at leisure instead of streamed live through mobile networks, Seagate said in its announcement at the Demo 07 trade show.
Full story: InfoWorld (http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/30/HNseagatedrive_1.html)
Electronics manufacturers will use DAVE to boost storage capacity without increasing the size or cost of retail cell phones, and content providers will use it to deliver video files without latency or coverage problems, since the files can be downloaded to the hardware at leisure instead of streamed live through mobile networks, Seagate said in its announcement at the Demo 07 trade show.
Full story: InfoWorld (http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/30/HNseagatedrive_1.html)