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I remember my Nokia N91 which had a 4GB version of one of these tiny HDDs, blew my mind at the time. Man do I miss the N-series, I had so many good phones in t
by alias_neo 7mo ago
I remember my Nokia N91 which had a 4GB version of one of these tiny HDDs, blew my mind at the time.
Man do I miss the N-series, I had so many good phones in that era.
- andai 7mo agoFirst time hearing about this. I just looked up that drive. That's genuinely amazing, and kind of adorable.
- tarasglek 7mo agoWorked on that phone. I diagnosed if music player cache was working by putting back of phone to my ear and listening for seeking clicks from hdd
- alias_neo 7mo agoNice! I loved that phone, was one of my favourites. One of the only, if not the only phone I ever owned that had a metal shell that I an recall. I had most of the N range, and was particularly interested in music ones, N95 was love/hate because the music button/reverse slide was so slow sometimes, and generally it just wasn't as good as N91 for music listening with its proper headphone jack placement, and always accessible controls. What kind of magic did that HDD have that it could be thrown around like a phone typically is without the issues we would see if we'd handled a laptop with HDD the same way?
- tarasglek 7mo agoHad an accelerometer that turned off hard drive when motion detected. High end ibm thinkpads had that too. Turns out if seek head is parked properly, its fairly robust N91 also had a ridiculously high quality DAC that beat pants off iPods of that gen.