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18 September 2004

MOVE OVER, IPOD?

No one wants to carry two devices when one will do, so could the appearance last week of the first mobile phone with a built-in hard drive spell the beginning of the end for the Apple iPod and its ilk?

The Samsung SPH-V5400 has a 2.5-centimetre hard drive that provides 1.5 gigabytes of storage for MP3 audio or MP4 video. Though this falls a long way short of the iPod Mini’s 4 gigabytes, the drive will allow far more music to be stored than the circa 100 megabytes generally available on cellphone memory cards. And higher capacity…

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