Media, chip set address portable systems' requirements

摘要

Samsung has shoehorned a 1.5-Gbyte Cor-nice Storage Element into its latest model— SPH V5400 cell phone, a trendsetting first step in a bigger picture flash-to-hard-disk-drive shift that EDN predicted after last year's Storage Visions Conference at the Consumer Electronics Show (see "Harnessing the hard-drive metamorphosis," EDN, July 8,2004, pg 28). The concept has a lot of merit, as cell phones increasingly stretch beyond their communications roots and become media-rich, including audio, graphics, and still and video images; recording; and playback platforms.