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Computers Zone 51 with hard disk capacity in one terabyte came into the market in the USA.
This is - billion byte of the information, or - if printed - 50 billion sheets. To produce such amount of paper manufacturers would need 50 thousand trees. This new “winchester” is able to store 380 hours (about 16 day) of video record of DVD quality, one million photos in the high resolution, or about 250 thousand of musical files, which is from one and a half till two years of a continuous audio stream.
The first company, which began to take orders for new desktop personal computers with memory size in one terabyte, was corporation Dell. The supermodern “home” computer is supplied into the market under the name Zone 51. The extra-high-power hard disk costs 500 dollars. Other “stuffing” of the computer depends on desire and financial opportunities of the buyer.

Verizon Wireless provider and Samsung have declared the beginning of sale of the mobile phone which supports V CAST Mobile TV - Samsung SCH-u620. For high-quality reception of video phone is equipped with pull out aerial. Besides Samsung SCH-u620 has an active 1,3-Mp camera, bright 2-inch LCD - with the 240×320 pixels resolution and Bluetooth stereoset.
Specifications of the device:
- 1,3-Mp digital camera
- The QVGA-display (240 x 320 pixels)
- Support of V CAST Mobile TV - streaming mobile program viewing
- The pull out aerial
- Bluetooth stereoset
- Personal organizer with a calendar, calculator, task list, currencies converter, an alarm clock, world time and a stop watch
- Memory microSD slot
- An opportunity of viewing DOC, XLS, PPT, PDF, TXT, HTM files, and images (JPEG and BMP)
- LBH: 76,2×25,4×21,59 mm
- Weight: 105 grammes (with the standard battery)
Samsung SCH-u620 is already available in Verizon Wireless sale network at the price of $150 provided two-year contract with Verizon Wireless.

Panasonic Company has announced two AVCHD video cameras - HDC-SD3 and HDC-DX3. Both novelties can record HD video with 1080i resolution and differ from each other by data carriers: HDC-SD3 uses SD memory cards, and HDC-DX3 records video on 8-sm DVD.
Panasonic Camera HDC-SD3 is the lightest in weight AVCHD video camera in the market - its weight is only 490 grammes (together with the battery). 4 Gb card stores 90 minutes of HD video.
Both cameras use system of 3 interleave transfer sensor with 2,1-Мp resolution, have 12х optical and 30х digital zoom, the 3-inch display and are able to record Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. Video is recorded in fashionable H.264 format that should, according to the developers, provide unsurpassed image quality. HDC-SD3`s sizes are 74х69х142 mm; DC-DX3 is little bigger, because of an optical DVD-drive, - 92х91х163 mm.
In Japan new video cameras are expected to appear April, 25. HDC-SD3 will cost $1269, HDC-DX3 will cost less - approximately $1185, but nothing is informed about the prices in Europe and Russia.

The CompAmerica Internet - shop started to sell “powerful” laptop Orca Extreme. Laptop it is packaged with Intel Core 2 Duo processors, user can choose between Е6700 (2,66 GHz) and Extreme X6800 (2,93 GHz).
Video in laptop is represented by two cards NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950GT, 512 Mb GDDR3 in everyone. The 17-inch display has passed Microsoft certification for guaranteed work with Windows Vista. However there will be any unexpected things - CompAmerica has only had an opportunity to draw buyer’s attention by a fashionable trade mark logotype.
Besides already common Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 1,3-Мp camera for videoconferences, laptop has ТV-tuner. 200 GB hard disk is intended for data storage.
The built - in optical drive didn’t justify hopes – it is just usual DVD-RW, instead of fresh HD-DVD or Blu-ray. However, the price is rather high - is necessary to plank out $2600, and it is only for the initial configuration.

Network resource DigitalCameraInfo has published the first impressions from the work with the professional Hasselblad H3D 31camera.
The review concludes, that the camera completely justifies hopes and proves so high price. Besides an opportunity to take high-quality pictures of professional quality, Hasselblad H3D 31 appeared to be convenient in work and it rather easy in service. Having left aside the impressive list of 31-Мp device specifications, we shall emphasize one of main pluses – design modularity of the camera.
Hasselblad H3D 31 consists of four basic elements: an objective, the case, the view-finder and a backdrop which can be easily combined for the necessary conditions of shooting. Flexibility of configuration change, high quality of components, small weight, respectable speed of shooting and a high level of automation simply do not leave chances for competitive decisions from Canon and Nikon.

Device is created mainly for the same category of people, as Handy Clock, that is for those who frequently travels to different countries.
The idea of the program is rather simple, as at such modest tasks it is difficult to make a product too much functional. In this connection the size of setup sis-file - 1,1 megabytes – is surprising. As it was found out later - the reason of so huge size of the program is in rather large database of cities and the colorful interface of the applications.
Epocware Company gave a rich choice of the languages - usually we saw not less than 10 variants. But Handy Weather suggests more than 25.
The starting screen presents the list of the countries, having chosen one of which, you get into the section of cities and can choose the necessary one for the forecast.
Handy Weather is more convenient, than the common way of weather survey through the Internet or web-sites. You have an opportunity to receive the forecast quickly, saving thus the traffic and the time. Therefore, if you really frequently require the weather information, you should think of this program.

The novelty - compact decision of 1,96 kg, equipped with 13,3 ” large-format display.
Technology NEC Super Shine View (SSV), according to the producer, allows to achieve higher brightness and contrast in comparison with the displays usually set in mobile personal computers.
VERSA S3200 is equipped with a quartet of loud speakers, located in three directions, there is an optical audio-output, has traditional today DVD-recorder.
From additional equipment we shall note 1,3-Mpixel web-camera and some additional keys for fast access to Internet, e-mail, search, etc.
It is interesting, that according to the manufacturer, VERSA S3200 does not concern platform Napa Refresh – it has out-of-date Intel Core Duo processor (if it not a typing error) and chipset Intel 945GM Express. The wireless controller will provide data transmission through Wi-Fi 802.11b/g.
RAM and hard disk capacity is unknown, but without any risk to be mistaken we may assume that it may be working memory 512 Mb - 2 Gb and HDD of 60-120 Gb.
Price is unknown yet. In the Asian market NEC VERSA S3200 will appear in April, about other regions nothing is informed yet.

The system developed by Intel Research Berkeley laboratory workers, will allow to transmit a signal more than a hundred kilometers and does not demand updating of hardware base. The organizations can use existing Wi-Fi - equipment, supplied with the new software. Points of wireless access with a new software can transmit the network traffic on a chain through some aerials with the orientation controlled diagram to reach finally the fiber-optic connection channel providing access to the Internet.
Invention is focused on developing countries for which development of a high-grade WiMAX-infrastructure is an excessive task. For comparison, cost of one WiMAX base station makes 15 thousand dollars while the described WiFi-retransmitter will cost 700-800 dollars, informs http://www.engadget.com.

To produce the necessary electric power to charge the cell phone, owner should turn the handle built in the body of the device.
Five built in light diodes provide enough bright illumination. Besides the suggested product has additional functionality - it can be used to recharge the accumulators in a cellular telephone. Undoubted advantage of the device is its small and compact sizes: the small flash-light in size of a packet of cigarettes can always be in a pocket.
The small flash-light can be used as charger with the majority of the widespread models of the Japanese mobile phones.

The next Samsung novelty is the solid-state drive (SSD) on the flash-memory basis. The volume of the product executed in the form - factor of 1,8 inches equals 64 GB. In the basis of submitted SSD - SLC NAND chips of 8 GB density. Application of SLC as they affirm, has allowed to increase the drive work speed. Speed of reading has grown by 20 %, records - 60 %, in comparison with SSD of 32 GB volume which have been submitted by the company last year. For comparison: reading speed of the new drive - 64 Mb / s, last year’s - 53 Mb / s, 60 GB winchester reads the data with a speed of 15 Mb / s. The same ratio is typical for recording: 45, 30, 7 Mb / s, correspondingly. Samsung plans the beginning of 1,8-inch SSD 64 GB gross production in the second quarter of the current year.