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Y bother when there r 2+gb flash chips? Less power, faster & more reliable.. Not to mention $! Goin backwards?
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Posted: 2005-04-29 06:47:21
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two problems i have with hard drives in phones:
1. power consumption (if my sister's 7610 can't even last a full day, i'd hate to think what the N91 would be like.)
2. dropping the phone, which we all do occasionally. do it a couple of times and you would probably need a new drive.
i'd much rather stick with flash memory, especially since 4gb MSD's will be out by yearend. by then, the prices of the 2gb's should be more reasonable.
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Posted: 2005-04-29 06:57:42
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not to mention they're a bit heavy too.
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Posted: 2005-04-29 07:06:49
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Dragonfly_TP Posts: > 500
the N91 is 160grams because it is made from stainless steel
it lasts for 12.5 hours when you only play music from the 4gb hdd
oh and compactFlash uses 3.3 volts and microdrives (IBM) 5 volts, but for a phone the tiny harddrive uses no more than 3.6 volts.
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Posted: 2005-04-29 08:48:10
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although currently flash memory looks more attractive, we cann't really say anything about the future. Hard drives are getting smaller and better....
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Posted: 2005-04-29 11:52:00
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i think hard disks offer cheaper storage of data then flash memory cards.in future itll be increasing very much
and samsung has already showed us some interesting
solutions with hard disks and flash (something like memory buffer but i think its much smarter)
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Posted: 2005-04-29 14:28:32
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how many portable devices have hard drives now? how reliable?
maybe we'll start seeing removable hard drives instead of memory cards if they work well.
but memory products have changed so much in the last few years, i wouldn't be surprised by anything.
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Posted: 2005-05-01 09:25:38
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im not sure im going to enjoy the day we start seeing mechanical drives on mobile phones, same a mechanical zoom....to me it spells disaster but thats my opinion
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Posted: 2005-05-01 09:58:43
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I think mem sticks are way to go due to interchangablity. Hard discs cannot be interchanged like mem sticks.
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Posted: 2005-05-01 10:45:51
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I'm with Davo here, considering the knocks and the bouncing about the mobile phones get in daily use I wouldn't want there to be something with moving parts like a hard drive in there, you'd have bad sectors on it or even an unuseable drive within months, perhaps weeks, no matter how well protected it is!
And given people's propensity to store their lives on their phone, and many don't back that data, pictures, games, music etc. up, if that hard drive breaks, they're in big trouble, and very pissed off!
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Posted: 2005-05-01 11:58:39
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