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Toshiba Develops Tiny Disk for Phones
Mon Dec 15,12:28 AM ET

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TOKYO - [size=-1]Toshiba Corp. has developed a hard disk drive about the size of a nickel that can be used to store music and video in mobile phones and other portable gadgets. [/size]

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The 0.85 inch diameter disk is believed to be the world's smallest hard disk drive that can store about 2 or 3 gigabytes worth of information, company spokeswoman Midori Suzuki said Monday.



A 2-gigabyle hard disk drive can store about 30 hours of music but cannot store movie-length video, she said. Toshiba plans to start taking orders by the summer of next year to start mass production as early as 2005, she said.



Pricing has not been decided. Demand is growing for smaller hard disk drives for network gadgets. The world's smallest HDD is believed to be a 1 inch (2.54 centimeters) model from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Hitachi's U.S. unit.



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[MrT]

This will be huge...3 gigs is definity enough to store a few movies.

 

[LMD64]

This will be huge...3 gigs is definity enough to store a few movies.

if you DivXed them, there could be enuf for 8-10 movies.

And playback on a mobile phone? drop the resolution even down to 320*240 at 10 frames per sec, mono audio at 22KHz, and you could fit all the 'Friends' episodes you could care to watch, like, ever. And even those episodes you couldn't care to watch as well.

 

[MrT]

Yep,

This kind of thing could have a big impact. I have an n-gage and I reckon I could get a full film on a 128mb card, havent tried it yet though.
With 3 gigs you could have decent games, films, mp3s, not to mention porn...the lot

 

[Sprite Boy]

Yep,

This kind of thing could have a big impact. I have an n-gage and I reckon I could get a full film on a 128mb card, havent tried it yet though.
With 3 gigs you could have decent games, films, mp3s, not to mention porn...the lot

I have a 256mb card and you can get a 2 90min movies on it along with a couple of mp3 albums.

click here to find out how to encode dvds for the ngage and other s60 series phones
http://www.ngage-user.com/content/how_to_encode_movies.asp

 

[Super Dexta]

jaysus
i've always wanted to watch vidjos on a 2 inch screen - obviously someone heard my prayers.