11-07-2003, 01:00 AM
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Executive Editor
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Toshiba Boosts Small Storage
"Toshiba's new 1.8-inch hard drives for personal music players can store as much data as hard drives on some low-end PCs, the company announced Wednesday. The 1.8-inch drives now come in 20GB and 40GB varieties, Toshiba said in a statement. The company's hard drives are used in ultraportable notebook PCs and automotive applications, a Toshiba spokesperson said in a statement."
What do you think - will we ever see Pocket PCs with on-board hard drive-based storage? When I was at Fry's in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, I was looking at the Rio Nitrus, which has a 1.5 GB hard drive attached to it's motherboard. It added a bit of weight to the unit, but not much, and the overall size was still amazingly small. Wouldn't it be amazing to have a Pocket PC with that type of storage in it? :mrgreen:
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11-07-2003, 01:22 AM
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2000 Posts And This is All I Get?
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Re: Toshiba Boosts Small Storage
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
The 1.8-inch drives now come in 20GB and 40GB varieties, Toshiba said in a statement.
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Yay ! 40 gigs is good. No more boring flights ! Any news about the price ?
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
What do you think - will we ever see Pocket PCs with on-board hard drive-based storage?
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Well, I currently got a 5 gigs 1.8" HDD duct-taped behind my axim, and I consider the HDD as 'onboard' (since it always 'on' my axim) ... so, yes, I already seen one on daily basis :mrgreen:
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11-07-2003, 01:27 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Nov 2003
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20 gb drive on a pda
At this point why can't you run a full os & call it a 4 inch tablet pc.
I know OQO, tiquit, antelope, vulcan are trying this ... what am I missing here. what is left?
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11-07-2003, 01:27 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2002
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Re: Toshiba Boosts Small Storage
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
What do you think - will we ever see Pocket PCs with on-board hard drive-based storage?
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Did we [well our Japense friends] see one with the e550MD that had a built-in Microdrive?
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11-07-2003, 02:09 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Dec 2002
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How many different types of micro hard drives have we seen now? Pocket PC manufacturers should have taken advantage of these and implemented them a long time ago. No, they will drag their feet like usual and stick with the SSDD.
Sorry for sounding so bitter, but I am somewhat frustrated with the baby steps that pocket pc oems have been taking lately.
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11-07-2003, 02:34 AM
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Thinker
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Toshiba Boosts Small Storage
Sorry for sounding so bitter, but I am somewhat frustrated with the baby steps that pocket pc oems have been taking lately.
My sentiments exactly!
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11-07-2003, 02:44 AM
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Philosopher
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Re: 20 gb drive on a pda
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Originally Posted by carioca76
At this point why can't you run a full os & call it a 4 inch tablet pc.
I know OQO, tiquit, antelope, vulcan are trying this ... what am I missing here. what is left?
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I think price is expodentially higher for full OSes. Driving up price too far can turn away demand especially when you consider paying higher costs for an argueably less functionable device (it's harder to multitask on a small screen).
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11-07-2003, 03:25 AM
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Oracle
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OT, but PC Mag seemed to really like all of Rio's new audio player products in a recent roundup -- the flash-based, the 1" HDD based, the 1.8" - 2.5" HDD based... (I don't remember which products exactly)
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11-07-2003, 03:50 AM
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Philosopher
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battery life will likely be an issue
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11-07-2003, 04:29 AM
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Pontificator
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This is on my list of predictions for 2004: PDAs with built-in hard drives. Oh yeah!
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