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Purav Sanghani - January 16, 2008 9:35 AM

14 comment(s) - last by immortalsly.. on Jan 18 at 10:04 AM

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Sanyo Xacti HD1000 High-Def Camcorder with D.A.V.E. Support

Seagate partners up with two product developers to bring wireless storage compatibility to consumer products

Seagate's DAVE platform was first announced as a platform for wireless storage access by mobile phones in January 2007. The company stated the platform would allow any compatible device with wireless connectivity to communicate with a DAVE-enabled storage device for additional storage and data access.

Just after CES, again, Seagate's DAVE platform resurfaced; this time with actual developer support. Sanyo's VPC-HD1000 high-definition camcorder, a part of the Xacti line, is the first of the few products that will fully support wireless, via Bluetooth and WiFi, and wired communication with Seagate's DAVE-based storage devices.

The Sanyo VPC-HD1000 will feature a USB interface which will allow direct connection of Seagate's DAVE products and support direct-to-disk recording of high-definition audio and video in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format. Since the VPC-HD1000 has a limited capacity, the addition of a 60GB drive will enable users to record roughly 10-11 hours of content.

Additionally, Seagate is working with Harman/Becker, a subsidiary of Harman International, to bring the DAVE technology platform to automobiles. Harman/Becker will implement support for the DAVE platform in new Chrysler vehicles with the MyGig systems in the near future. This enables wired and wireless connectivity with Seagate's products to add high-capacity storage for transferring music, photos, and videos.

As storage needs grow for consumers constantly moving around, the technologies such as the DAVE platform will be the next step in mobile storage. DAVE is platform independent; we could potentially see new DAVE devices on every interface from Bluetooth to USB to eSATA.

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you know.....

By inperfectdarkness on 1/16/2008 10:16:34 AM , Rating: 1

hell, i'd be happy if sanyo just made a cell-phone with a micro-sd drive slot. enough of this "pay the phone carriers to get access to the pictures you take on your phone" B.S.!

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By PAPutzback on 1/16/2008 1:04:38 PM , Rating: 3

Buy a different phone.

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RE: you know.....

By inperfectdarkness on 1/16/08, Rating: 0

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By geeg on 1/16/2008 2:11:14 PM , Rating: 2

Most phones with a USB connector, like Motorola razr, have it.

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By oblikon on 1/16/2008 3:44:58 PM , Rating: 2

BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8130

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By noirsoft on 1/16/2008 4:53:02 PM , Rating: 2

Anything running Windows Mobile

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By 1337cookie on 1/16/2008 6:47:05 PM , Rating: 2

Most sony phones have Cyber-shot branded on them, they work almost exactly like digital cameras...

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By immortalsly on 1/16/2008 8:59:07 PM , Rating: 2

I have Sprint with a Samsung M500 (which has been out for awhile now). The M500 has a micro-SD slot and comes with a USB cable. There's a setting in the phone to specify where you want pictures taken to go (either phone or memory card). When you connect the phone to PC, the micro-SD shows up as a regular drive with the usual camera folder structure.

The trick to having this work for me was to install the driver for the USB device, which is Sprint's "PCS Connection Manager for Phone as Modem/USB Cables". You'll see it when you go to http://www.sprint.com/downloads

Having said that, the M500 camera is only 1.3 and doesn't exactly take the best pictures...

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By inperfectdarkness on 1/17/2008 9:05:23 AM , Rating: 2

i have a sanyo katana. version 1.0. i've had 3 different sprint phones over the past 6 years. they've always judiciously maintained that i have to subscribe to their "vision" services in order to access photos (upload to them their service; download them to my pc from there).

a direct USB connection between ANY sprint phone and your pc (bypassing paying them for their service) is news to me.

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By immortalsly on 1/18/2008 10:04:17 AM , Rating: 2

I can't speak for the Katana but my M500 saves pictures taken to the internal micro-SD. I do have Power Vision but that's only needed when I use the feature to send out pictures wirelessly. Just to be sure, I tested with the signal off and Vision disabled and it works fine.

Also, the micro-SD card is removable so it's just as easy to pop it out and feed it into a card reader to transfer stuff.

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Integration into vehicles would be EXCELLENT.

By Chris Peredun on 1/16/2008 10:10:09 AM , Rating: 1

If Seagate makes a "DAVE" compatible drive that also has standalone audio playback, that could be a heck of a portable jukebox, even at only 8GB or so. Fade to a "Future Vision" ...

You're sitting in the office listening to your music (streamed from DAVE over BlueTooth into your workstation.) It's quitting time, but you need to take a walk to the other side of the building (it's a big building) and there's a song you like playing. So pair up a set of stereo BlueTooth headphones, drop DAVE into your jacket pocket, and carry on. You drop off the package to John Doe in Marketing, and head back out to your car. You start your car, and the DAVE-aware stereo system wakes up. It senses the DAVE module, turns off your headphones, and begins piping your music through the stereo.

RE: Integration into vehicles would be EXCELLENT.

By TomZ on 1/16/2008 1:41:19 PM , Rating: 2

The problem I see with "D.A.V.E." is that it does not represent an industry-wide consensus or standard. Therefore, it will naturally lead to some number of competing, possibly non-interoperating proprietary solutions.

I'd rather see the industry come together to define a standard, and then compete on implementations.

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RE: Integration into vehicles would be EXCELLENT.

By bigboxes on 1/17/2008 9:13:43 AM , Rating: 3

You're describing SONY.

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RE: Integration into vehicles would be EXCELLENT.

By Hydrofirex on 1/16/2008 7:23:14 PM , Rating: 2

My Zune can practically do all of that already, and it's 80 Gigs. It even has a wireless transmitter already built in! Slap in an open standard for data streaming and bluetooth and voila.

Imagine a media player that auto-updates at night when you plug it in with new content you record from you Media Center - now imagine it can stream digital contact wirelessly to any compatible device.

HfX

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