[N8 v2.0]

My fist PC was an Apple LCIII that had a whopping 80 meg hd and ran at an astounding 25 mhz.

Samsung Cell Phones to Get Tiny Hard Drive
AP via Yahoo! | Thu Sep 9 | MAY WONG

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced the world's first mobile phone to sport a tiny hard drive. With the built-in 1-inch, 1.5-gigabyte hard disk, the SPH-V5400 could store about 15 times more data than conventional handsets — everything from digital music files and photos to video, Samsung said.

The phone is equipped with a mega-pixel camera, camcorder, MP3 player, a high-resolution 2.2-inch display, a microphone and dual speakers. It will be available in South Korea later this month. Samsung did not disclose a price or any plans to sell it in the United States or elsewhere.

Hard drives are becoming an increasingly popular component in consumer electronics to accommodate the need for more digital data storage, and makers of the mini drives have worked to squeeze more and more capacity out of the coin-sized disks.

Seagate Technologies LLC has a 1-inch drive that holds 5 gigabytes of data, while Toshiba Corp. has developed an even tinier drive — at 0.85 inches in diameter — to store 2 to 3 gigabytes of data

 

[Damn True]

Screw that!
Make it get better RECEPTION!

 

[WestCoastHucker]

looks like the 1.5 standard is catching on all over the place.....

 

[stosh]

My first computer was an IBM PC Junior it didnt' even have memory.

 

[N8 v2.0]

My first computer was an IBM PC Junior it didnt' even have memory.

Did it use a 5" floppy as the HD?

 

[Hawkeye]

My first computer was an IBM PC Junior it didnt' even have memory.

I had that crap pile too. It had cartrages instead of a hard drive. I played "kings quest" on that thing for hours on end.

 

[LordOpie]

my first "computer" was a Commodore 64. Used cassette tapes for memory. Took 10 minutes to load "Lunar Lander"

 

[stosh]

Did it use a 5" floppy as the HD?

yep 5-1/4"

 

[stosh]

I had that crap pile too. It had cartrages instead of a hard drive. I played "kings quest" on that thing for hours on end.

yep and Jumpman.

My dad had to take a loan out to buy it too.

 

[HedgeHog]

my first "computer" was a Commodore 64. Used cassette tapes for memory. Took 10 minutes to load "Lunar Lander"

A C-64 was my first one too. I thought I was one bad mofo when I got a super fast floppy disk drive.

 

[steve45]

C-64 was my first to, damn how things have changed, when i got that i was barely old enough to know what to do with it, but i got the hang of it, i remember many good times with that steaming pile of crap.

ah the good old days.

 

[reflux]

Screw that!
Make it get better RECEPTION!

Seriously, I kinda get the impression in a few years this whole "squeeze every single option into the phone as possible" will become today's version of BMW's I-drive. The past year or two Mercedes and BMW have been trying to make their cars electronic and luxury works of art, to the point that it's not needed for the driving experience (i.e. Mercedes trying to have a car sense you are in a tunnel to have the sunroof automatically close and BMW having this mini cpu mouse to control the entire car). I think I read this year that Mercedes is breaking away from this and will try something new, a luxury auto without all that useless sh1t.

Can't you see it? In a few years, after making phones with this extra sh1t, Samsung will come out with a breakthrough phone, it'll just get good reception.

Okay, that was too long to explain my point.