Seagate is pushing a new line of 10Gb to 20Gb hard drive for use with mobile phones.

The hard drive might be small, but add one to your current smart phone and it would mushroom into a device that no sane person would put in their jeans pocket.

01 Feb 2007

Seagate therefore expects you buy the hard drive as a stand alone device that's as big as a stack of say 10 credit cards. It connects to your phone through a Bluetooth connection and requires that users recharge the battery after 10 hours of use.

The hard drive maker is hoping that digital video will fuel demand. But in that case users might just as well sign up for a mobile video service or buy a large capacity MiniSD memory card. That may not allow you to store an entire season of The Office, but it saves you from having to worry about yet another device.