More Storage For Mobile Devices Using DAVE
Posted January 31st, 2007 by Marius Trusculescu
In a press release today, Seagate announced the Digital Audio Video Experience (DAVE) technology for mobile storage devices. Practically, the US company is trying to deliver a portable hard drive that will connect wirelessly to your mobile devices to provide remote storage (of 10-20 GB) for your pictures, music, videos or data.
When I say remote I am not talking about miles distances, but about a few feet. For example by keeping a DAVE portable hard disk in your pocket you will benefit from all its storage capacity on your mobile phone. The devices will transfer data among them trough a Bluetooth connection but the for the consumers it will be as if the hard drive was part of the phone itself.
The anticipation is great for such a product as mobile phone producers always had troubles integrating large magnetic storage hard drives in their products and the flash memory is much more expensive. This way they don’t need to include the hard drive in the handset, but as a small auxiliary unit.
