STORAGE NEWS: Seagate unveils wireless portable storage

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.

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Interesting concept...

Just as a side note yesterday I attended an online seminar from Seagate and Microsoft.
It was for the launch on the new Hybird drive line from Seagate called Momentos
This is basically a standard laptop harddrive with a 256 mb non volatile mem stick on it.
According to them it will save 25% battery life and it will speed up alot of stuff which can be run strictly in the memory
It also works in conjunction with some of the new features in Vista.
One is Speed Fetch.