Seagate Adds Gigabytes to Your Phone
Seagate has found yet another use for its tiny hard drives. Their hope is that starting this summer, you’ll be able to tote 10 GB of data with you wherever you go—accessible through your cell phone.
The company’s showing off the technology at the DEMO 07 conference, under the moniker DAVE (Digital Audio Video Experience). DAVE products are promised to be about the size of a credit card and less than 0.5’’ thick.
Now why would you want to attack something that size to your cell phone? Actually, you wouldn’t. You’d connect to the DAVE device through Bluetooth, or possibly Wi-Fi. Files would be accessed through a small Java application on the phone. Think about it—you’d be able to keep all your data in your pocket, but be able to access it at any time with a few button presses.
Seagate expects the first 10 GB DAVE devices to sell for about $150 this summer, with 20 GB devices to follow. The question that remains is, whatever will you do with all that data always available at your fingertips?