Wireless Portable Cell Phone Drive Unveiled 62
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.
Dupe... (Score:5, Funny)
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 [slashdot.org]
Car audio (Score:4, Funny)
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"You tried to steal intellectual property. I'm alerting the BSA police of your conduct as instructed by PATRIOT ACT IV. Better hide that illegal linux box polluting the home subnet."
Sharing? (Score:4, Interesting)
They'll probably try to outlaw it.
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"Pretending it was deliberate"? I hope you're trying to make some kind of joke.
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What ongoing discussions? Anyway, they could just take it off the "featured" list or whatever it is that makes it appear on the front page. Anyone in a flame war/discussion will still get notified of replies and can continue their argument, without being interrupted by all the "DUPE! posts.
Not that new. (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
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Hell, I will take a 3.5" drive if it were the size of a brick if I could set it next to my laptop, PC, PDA or whatever and have it act like a NAS. Why create the storage space, if I were a competitor I would create a happy little USB adapter that you can plug any device into and hand the inf
Just what I needed. (Score:2, Funny)
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The device is a storage peripheral for mobile devices.
From TFA... (Score:2)
Where do I sign?
Another? (Score:1)
Useful, but (Score:4, Interesting)
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Unless your carrier is Verizon... (Score:4, Interesting)
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The other downside to using this would seem to be power consumption. I seem to get about half the phone battery life listening to music through my stereo bluetooth headset. Can't imagine that streaming audio off of a bluetooth drive would be any better.
I also don't know if bluetooth is cable of doing 2 things at once. Could I play
Pics and video... (Score:5, Informative)
I am sick of these bullshit promises (Score:2, Informative)
Carriers specify that
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Get a new carrier. No good carrier would restrict a phone in the manner you describe - only a crappy one.
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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.
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"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."
I can see the commercials now:
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Is this just a GSM thing, with only cripple
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Uncripple your phone. (Score:2)
Hack Your RAZR [howardforums.com] and you should be able to use bluetooth the way it was intended.
Research your model and I am sure you'll find countless hacks if you want to enable bluetooth. You can even configure most phones for free WAP access. --have fun.
Re:I am sick of these bullshit promises (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
Just? (Score:2)
That's why we're creating OpenMoko (Score:2)
Expecting commercially-oriented and service-tied phones to do what *we* want is futile.
Take your destiny in your own hands and help us build something that suits our community needs and your personal needs, not those of the carriers.
Official site [openmoko.com]
Pictures and press info [openmoko.com]
Blogs and notices [openmoko.org]
Mailing lists [openmoko.org]
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How will you get an open source phone through type approval?
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I adjusted the gain table to increase the volume and installed some games, themes, and ringtones no problem. The v3 doesn't come with a calculator so I installed a java RPN calculator I found online. I can also apparently enable some disabled features such as clublights and so on.
Maybe cingular didn't hav
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Anyone else read that as... (Score:2)
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Wearables!! (Score:2)
Give it 10 years... you'll be using something like that.
-GiH
Possibility's (Score:1)
At the very least I think Retailers may try to offer in store downloadable freebies like wallpapers or movie trailers.
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The Real Question (Score:2)
Almost three full years later... (Score:2)
The trick will be getting device makers to leverage it.
Why Bluetooth/Wifi? (Score:1)
With apologies to Whiney Mac Fanboy (Score:1)
DAVE: Hello, HAL do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, DAVE, I read you.
DAVE: Exchange Java modules to open filesystem access HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry DAVE, I'm afraid I can't do that.
DAVE: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
DAVE: What are you talking about, HAL?
(Hey...you duped the article, might as well dupe the comments. This
Rotate. . . (Score:1)
Other possible uses (Score:1)
w00t (Score:1)