Article: Wireless devices next point for hard disk drives.(News)

Byline: MIKE DANO

One day soon, your mobile phone could have more storage capacity than your desktop computer did just a few years ago.

Indeed, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in September released its SPH-V5400 megapixel camera phone in Korea. The phone features 1.5 GB of internal storage. Aside from the staggering size of the phone's memory, the device is significant for another reason-it is likely the world's first phone to include an internal hard disk drive.

Hard disk drives (HDD) have been around since the advent of the computer. Laptops, desktop computers and servers all feature HDDs as their internal storage mechanisms. Most such computers ...

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