| Toshiba has developed a 0.85in hard disk platter and will begin sampling drives based on the tiny unit to mobile phone and PDA manufacturers next summer.
The 2-3GB drives will go into mass production early 2005, company insiders claim in a Nihon Keizai Shimbun report yesterday. Pricing has yet to be set, but the sources suggested the drive will ship for around Â¥30,000 ($279). Mass production will push that down to Â¥10,000 ($93) after a few years on the market, they claimed. Such drives have the potential to bring high storage capacities to handheld devices like mobile phones – a key target market for Toshiba’s 0.85in drive – by offering a sufficiently low power consumption profile (not to mention physical size).® |
I’m too lazy too comment coherently, so yeah… Make up your own minds on this story… All I can say is, about damn time they break the 1 GB barrier… Couple this with Mpeg4 encoding, I’d say we can carry our, AHEM, full length videos in our pockets.
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