The hard disk drive mobile phone is nearly here
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January 22, 2005 The convergence of the mobile phone with the PDA, digital camera, gaming device, MP3 player and portable video player looks set to accelerate this year with the arrival of hard disk drives small enough and tough enough to handle the going. The world's first mobile phone with a hard drive went on sale in Korea and Japan late last year - Samsung's SPH-V5400 - and already the signs are there to indicate we'll see a rash of phones released with disk drives this year. This week Texas instruments announced that Samsung has chosen TI's OMAP-DM270 processor, an extension to TI's widely adopted OMAP processor portfolio, to power its new camera phone model. The camera phone with hard-disk drive includes a video-on demand feature.
