PC World talks of one of the buzziest product intros at the DEMO show in Palm Springs - Seagate’s pocket-sized, Bluetooth-connected hard drive for use with mobile phones. Known as D.A.V.E.–which is short for Digital Audio Video Experience.

D.A.V.E is smaller than a business-card case and you can pair it was a phone via Bluetooth, whereupon it’ll upload a Java applet that lets the phone connect wirelessly to the drive and anything stored on it–music, video, pictures, documents, or whatever. And because it’s all done with Bluetooth, D.A.V.E. can stay in your pocket even while you’re accessing stuff stored on it!

Phones are the most obvious applications for this sort of external drive because they lack mammoth amounts of built-in capacity. But Seagate says that D.A.V.E. or D.A.V.E.-like devices could also talk to car electronics systems, cameras, and other devices. It says the price should be in the $150-$200 range, and that it hopes that products will arrive in stores by this summer. 10GB for starters–which is more than any form of phone-friendly flash memory can currently provide. Seagate says that a 20GB version will be available later this year, and 40GB should be doable by 2008.

Source: PC World