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Gametes · Jul 16, 2003, 10:47 PM

Toshiba was all set to release this product, and I really would like to get my hands on one.
But I can't find anything about this online.
here
Anybody know what happened to this thing?

MaxPower2k3 · Jul 16, 2003, 10:56 PM

Bluetooth for mass storage just isn't practical. With an average transfer speed of 750kbits/sec, it would take more than 15 and a half hours to fill a 5 gig drive. granted, you wouldn't transfer all 5 gigs at a time, but even a 4mb mp3 would take around 45 seconds to transfer

Gametes · Jul 16, 2003, 11:00 PM

Does that mean they cancelled the program? I need a storage solution for a cell phone such as the T68i and an ewear.

MaxPower2k3 · Jul 16, 2003, 11:10 PM

Originally posted by Gametes:
Does that mean they cancelled the program? I need a storage solution for a cell phone such as the T68i and an ewear.

what would you possibly need to store 5 gigs of on a cell phone? And the e-wear (according to Panasonic's site) doesn't have bluetooth. My suggestion is get a 512mb SD card for the e-wear and delete a few addresses off the T68i so they fit in the internal memory.

biscool · Jul 17, 2003, 03:58 PM

Even if some company made a bluetooth HD, it wouldn't work with a cell phone. Why would you need/want 5gb on a cell phone?

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Jul 17, 2003, 04:13 PM

What kind of horrible idea is this thing!?

I mean, that must take over a day to transfer!

hadocon · Jul 17, 2003, 09:02 PM

Originally posted by Gametes:
I need a storage solution for a cell phone such as the T68i and an ewear.

No you don't

Gametes · Jul 18, 2003, 05:17 PM

Yes, I do. I am going to get an ewear, and I am going to be far, far away from a computer for a long, long time. I am trying to find a way to repeatedly upload the video from my ewear to a hard drive so I can delete the SD-card and start over.

My first solution was to do this
ewear/sdcard -> sdcard/USB connector -> USB/T68i USB converter -> T68i bluetooth -> bluetooth hard drive.

Or something.

Now see? What would your solution be?
I'd just like to say that panasonic really pisses me off by making the ewear take a crappy card instead of having an iPod hard drive in it...

icruise · Jul 19, 2003, 01:20 AM

Frankly that sounds like a bad idea, even if it would work. Why is it that you have to use the ewear? Aren't there any other products that would fit your needs?

Alpha-sphere · Jul 19, 2003, 06:12 AM

Originally posted by Gametes:
Yes, I do. I am going to get an ewear, and I am going to be far, far away from a computer for a long, long time. I am trying to find a way to repeatedly upload the video from my ewear to a hard drive so I can delete the SD-card and start over.

My first solution was to do this
ewear/sdcard -> sdcard/USB connector -> USB/T68i USB converter -> T68i bluetooth -> bluetooth hard drive.

Or something.

Now see? What would your solution be?
I'd just like to say that panasonic really pisses me off by making the ewear take a crappy card instead of having an iPod hard drive in it...

Dude just go get yourself a imagetank or something similar. Check the xdrives out too @ http://www.powerinnumbers.com.au Empty your SD card in seconds with one of these but with some you can't upload back to your SD card.

And your first solution won't work. This is not apple where talking about. There's almost no compatibility between a phone and something like a bluetooth HDD.