Bluetooth^TM Pocket Server saves data to a 5GB 1.8-inch HDD able to store almost 37 hours of MPEG-4 moving images or 1,000 pieces of music, but it is small enough and light enough to slip into a shirt pocket.

Integration of Bluetooth^TM is expected to promote wide for the Bluetooth^TM Pocket Server, as it allows wireless downloads, uploads and transfers among a wide range of Bluetooth^TM-enabled products, including TVs, cellular phones, PDAs, PCs and digital cameras. The pocket server will allow users to capture and save data as diverse as TV broadcasts, music files or map information and download them to a PC or PDA, allowing anytime access to stored data.

In business, stored presentation data can be transmitted to a Bluetooth^TM-enabled printer or projector without the need of an intermediary PCs. When large volumes of data do have to be transferred to a PC, an integrated USB port can be used to optimize the speed of the transaction.

Toshiba positions the Bluetooth^TM Pocket Server as an essential component in multi-product, wireless mobile AV networks and schedules commercialize for the first half of fiscal year 2002.