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HTC Touch Diamond

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The Diamonds looks like an HTC Touch pro on a sever diet. It misses out on the hardware QWERTY & has a smaller battery which is why it is slimmer & a lot lighter. The rear seems to be more solid & is finished in glossy black but a look at the front face & you cannot tell the Diamond & the pro apart.

The name Diamond comes from the sculpted rear that has been cut at various angles to give the appearance of many sides-like its namesake. Built quality is good & the touch Diamond looks clean. It has 4GB of internal storage but no expansion. The screen is a little devoid of colors but bright & crisp enough.

HTC Touch Diamond

HTC Touch Diamond

Fonts are clearer than on the touch viva, although not the best around. Once again the lack of a dedicated keyboard cannot made up for by the onscreen one, simply because of the prohibitively small screen size. The call buttons are touch activated & very well laid out & amply backlit, while the home & back button also aid navigation. In fact most other non-HTC devices do not have a back button & we feel this is a nifty & very utilitarian feature that is simple to implement & should be standardized on all WM devices.

The camera on this phone is decent, actually a lot better than we expected; it out performs some of the other 3.2 megapixel units in this test. The antenna is of mediocre quality & we had slight issues with clarity in zone 2.

The earpiece volume itself is quite good. The hands free is good enough for casual music listening & to make calls but music lovers obsessed with quality will find nothing of interest here. The lack of Expansion beyond the 4 GB of inbuilt memory may also turn some people off.There,s nothing special about this handset to make it stand out.

At a price tag of $350 users would surely expect more & we would expect a QWERTY keypad to make usability better.

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10,000 GB on DVD in 5 years

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While doing the hard disk test last month, we were wondering whatever happened to the sci-fi like holographic storage medium that was supposed to be just around the corner. Now it seems there is a DVD being developed that based on Nano Technology dubbed ultra-DVD that can store 10TB in a single disk.

Currently, Blue-ray disk that hold 50GB are not even close to projected capacity of these ultra DVDs. Scientists working on the project say the DVD could be available to consumers as early as five years from now. It will surely change the way we view & even perceive digital data, & even entertainment. Its outcome could include things such as three dimensional video & some ultra-HD viewing. The scientists working on the project say that nano-structured material can be incorporated on to a disc to increasing the size of the disk.

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Meanwhile, another study is also under way in Australia that is looking at developing five dimensional DVDs. researchers have already designed a five dimensional DVD that can store 1.6 TB of data on a standard size DVD. That is as much as 30 Blue-ray disks!

Unlike normal DVDs that have two layers of stacked data these disk have an additional 3 layers- one data & two for reading wave length & polarization. The layers will be made of thin glass films & will be coated with gold nano rods with three different sizes. To record data on the disc a laser is focused on the nano rods.each nano rod melts at different wavelengths into spheres.

This change of state denotes the change from 1 to 0.The researches are currently working with Samsung to make the technology commercially viable but it could take anywhere between 5 to 10 years.

The challenge is that since the data is so densely packed, reading it at high speeds will pose a problem, Also currently a very large & not to mention expensive titanium-sapphire femto-second laser is being used in the study. A cheaper laser will have to be developed.

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