Filed under: Storage
It seems like hard drive manufacturers are all about the bold claims this week — hot on the heels of Hitachi’s promise to deliver 4TB drives in 2011, Western Digital is doing a little chest-thumping over its “successful demonstration” of drive with a storage density of 520GB per square inch. That’s more than double today’s max of 200GB per sqaure inch, and WD says cramming bits in that tight will result in 3TB 3.5-inch drives by 2010. Hmm, 1TB less one year sooner? Storage fanboys, to the comments!
 
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Original post by Nilay Patel

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

No surprises in the mix here, but we’re delighted to see that Verizon is finally getting official with four smart devices that have been rumored to be in its pipeline for ages. Of the four, only the i760 from Samsung’s been priced and slated for release — October 19 online, November 2 in stores for $350 on contract after rebates — featuring Windows Mobile 6 Professional, QWERTY slide-out and offset numeric keypads, and a 1.3 megapixel camera. The XV6800 succeeds the tired XV6700, going up against Sprint’s Mogul by offering the HTC Titan reference design in a custom Verizon skin; it shows up with a 2 megapixel cam, WiFi, and a full QWERTY keyboard. Already released on several CDMA carriers, the HTC Libra sees the light of day on Verizon as the SMT5800 bearing Windows Mobile 6 Standard and a 2 megapixel cam (we loved the Libra’s [...]

Original post by Chris Ziegler