Toshiba's 4GB Postage Stamp-sized Hard Drive

All this talk about upping the storage capacity in NAND solid-state flash memory may be filling the tech blogs these days, but the hard drive is far from falling out of the picture yet. They're getting smaller and smaller these days, and now Toshiba is offering a 4GB hard disk that is only slightly larger than a postage stamp.

Less than an inch in diameter -- 0.85 inches to be exact -- the electronics maker sees the implementation of the tiny drive in portable devices like mobile phones, PDAs, digital cameras, and the like. It would be a good fit for ever popular slim handsets that are making waves these days, because Toshib'a micro drive is a mere 0.197-inches thick. more...

World's First 8GB Hard Disk Embedded Phone...by SAMSUNG

Samsung Electronics Co. is reinforcing its technology leadership by unveiling the world's first 8GB Hard Disk embedded smartphone (model: SGH-i310). Samsung breaks the storage limit in mobile phones by introducing the world's first mobile phone equipped with a 8GB hard disk drive (model: SGH-i310). With the large storage of 8GB, SGH-i310 will change the way people manage and use mobile phones. Samsung is the first to adopt a hard disk drive into mobile phones and has launched three models equipped with a hard disk drive; the world's first 1.5GB HDD embedded phone (model: SPH-V5400), the world's first 3GB HDD embedded phone (model: SCH-V7900) and the world's first 3GB HDD Music smartphone (model: SGH-i300). The i310 works as a perfect platform for users by combining a phone, a digital camera, and an MP3 player with its immense storage capacity. It enables users to carry around 2,000 songs (4MB/song) wherever they go. more...