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Tuesday, 31 May 2005 |
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Gold Rush in Little Hard Disks
BusinessWeek - USA
Cell-phone makers are using scaled-down drives in new models. That's
music to the ears of outfits like Seagate and Western Digital.
For several years now, hard-disk-drive makers have boogied to the iPod beat.
Apple's (AAPL ) best-seller and other MP3 digital music players have sent sales
of the smallest disks -- required if you want to store thousands of songs on
your portable music player -- to the top of the charts.
Soon storage makers will be hearing more sweet music: The next generation of
cell phones from Samsung and Nokia (NOK ) will be sporting hard drives. Unlike
prior models that stored just a handful of songs on a phone's flash memory,
these models will have as much capacity -- eventually more -- as your average
MP3 player.
SAMSUNG'S FIRST. Used for storing thousands of music tracks, personal health
records, credit-card data, photos, even TV shows, they could even eclipse in
popularity the blockbuster camera phones.
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