Oh no! People are reporting that Samsung has unveiled the world's first mobile phone with a built-in hard drive. Now I'm not going to be able to talk about that as a tech inevitability, looking extremely forward thinking and smart in the process. How about this: In the future, all flat screen TVs will double as pancake griddles. Plasmas will also fry up bits of delicious ham.

The phone, though! It's called the SPH-V5400, has a 1.5GB hard drive, and is going to cost around $800 when it launches - far too much money to be anything more than a curiosity, but it certainly could be noted as the first step towards the eventuality of a phone playing double duty as an iPod. It's stuff like this that makes Apple's team up with Motorola less of a one-off and more like a hedging of bets. In five years I bet there won't even be an iPod that doesn't come inside a cellphone.

If anyone gets a picture out before I see it, let me know. (Thanks, Teemu!)

Read - Samsung shows 'world's first' hard drive phone [TheRegister]
Read - Samsung sticks hard-disk drive in new phone [TechWorld]
Read - Samsung to Launch Phone with Mini Hard Drive [Reuters]

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Update: Looks like Engadget got some pics of the phone via mylove2u.info (?!)
Read - Pics of the SPH-V5400, that new Samsung cellphone with the 1.5GB hard drive [Engadget]

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