So this beast of a device has a 20 gigabyte hard drive and stores pictures, video clips, and MMS/SMS.

Getting items onto the PD-1 is actually pretty easy - It connects through almost any method out there: USB connection to computer/digitial camera, memory card slot, mobile phone via Bluetooth/IR.

Once you've got your collection of whatever stored on the hard drive, you can do a bunch of fun things with the Image Album. The obvious choice is to hook up the PD-1 to your NTSC or PAL TV with the standard composite cables and display your content in slideshow mode. But you can also write image comments, transfer stuff to a compatible phone , print your images, or backup your content to a CD.

That's right. You can connect a USB CD writer to the back of the Nokia Image Album and easily backup all your precious memories onto a compact disc. Very, very cool. Never mind the fact that you could also connect your phone to your computer and burn it that way.

Printing out pictures requires a Bluetooth-compatible printer. Not too many of those around.

It would be quite interesting if someone out there could hack the Image Album and turn it into a little multimedia device for playing, say, XviD movies. I have to say, the Nokia PD-1 has a lot of potential.

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