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Samsung has released the first mobile phone with a hard drive

28.09.2004

Samsung has introduced the world's first mobile phone in Japan with a built-in 1,5 GB hard drive.

Samsung has made an important new step towards further improvement of mobile phones by placing for the first time in the world a miniature one-inch hard drive with a capacity of 5400 GB in a mass-produced mobile phone model SPH-V1,5. Despite the fact that such a step was predicted by experts for a long time, a number of technical problems still did not allow starting mass production of phones with "hard drives".

The SPH-V5400 is equipped with a miniature built-in 1,5 GB 320-inch hard drive. The clamshell model is equipped with a megapixel camera, an internal LCD display with a resolution of 240x128 pixels and an external resolution of 128x3 pixels, made using OLED technology. Additional phone features include an MPXNUMX player and an electronic dictionary.

The South Korean company said that a powerful built-in microphone will enhance the functions of the camcorder, while dual speakers create a three-dimensional sound effect. It is reported that the phone has a built-in FM-receiver, two speakers and a TV-out, supports 64-tone polyphony. A number of sources say that the new phone allows you to broadcast audio to nearby FM receivers, i.e. can also work as an FM transmitter.

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