pocket pc with built in 20gig hard drive

by **jagnon** » Apr 1, 2003 @ 3:03pm

I posted this suggestion to toshiba's suggestion board.. Would any of you buy a toshiba pocket pc with a built in 10 or 20 gig hard drive?

Toshiba makes the hard drives for the apple Ipod, and they are very thin.. adding it to the e310/e330/e335 would probably only expand it to the size of the e740..

With this combo, you could have gigs of mp3's and video files.. and it would position the ppc against the new breed of mp3/video players coming out this year (rca lyra, archos media jukebox)

Toshiba is really the best positioned to release this type of product since they manufacture their own hard drives..

by **James S** » Apr 1, 2003 @ 4:44pm

Just buy a Genio, it comes with a several gig hard drive built in.

I wouldn't buy it, but I guess I'm a budget PDA buyer, or atleast mainstream. I don't need the storage and what I DO need is the battery life. I'm sure tons of people would go for that, though.

by **jagnon** » Apr 1, 2003 @ 6:33pm

Just looked up the specs for the genio.. but it's just a built in microdrive.. and those anyone can get right now if you have a compact flash slot..

by **Solarix** » Apr 3, 2003 @ 12:09am

by **James S** » Apr 3, 2003 @ 12:44am

And how fragile the unit would become with a harddrive built in. If you dropped it or shook it at all then that hard drive is going to go bad, then you have to send the entire unit into repair it.

by **sponge** » Apr 3, 2003 @ 1:24am

by **damian** » Apr 3, 2003 @ 1:40am

by **James S** » Apr 3, 2003 @ 1:49am

by **R0B** » Apr 3, 2003 @ 1:56am

by **James S** » Apr 3, 2003 @ 1:58am

by **jagnon** » Apr 3, 2003 @ 1:59am

by **jagnon** » Apr 3, 2003 @ 2:17am

That pocketpc is using a 2.5" hard drive, and is probably the reason why it's so thick..

the hard drives toshiba makes are 1.8" and is the reason why ipods are so much smaller than every other hard drive based player on the market..

teaming up a 1.8" toshiba hd with a toshiba ppc seems like a great combo to me..

this is a link to the toshiba 20gig 1.8" hd..[/url]

by **James S** » Apr 3, 2003 @ 2:54am

by **R0B** » Apr 3, 2003 @ 4:28am

Same here, you distorted my 1600x1200 screen also. Use the code, it makes the forum look much better.

by **Dihnekis** » Apr 3, 2003 @ 4:51am

distored mine too, not that it really matters. That french PPC looks awesome, but i wish it came with a PXA255. It probably has like a 10 minute battery life too.

pocket pc with built in 20gig hard drive

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