Hard Drive (HDD)

A hard disk drive (HDD), commonly referred to as a Hard Drives, Hard Disk, fixed disk drive or Hard Disk Drive, is a non-volatile storage device which stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating platters with magnetic surfaces. Strictly speaking, "drive" refers to a device distinct from its medium, such as a tape drive and its tape, or a floppy disk drive and its floppy disk. Early HDDs had removable media; however, an HDD today is typically a sealed unit (except for a filtered vent hole to equalize air pressure) with fixed media.

A HDD is a rigid-disk drive, although it is probably never referred to as such. By way of comparison, a so-called "floppy" drive (more formally, a diskette drive) has a disc that is flexible. Originally, the term "hard" was temporary slang, substituting "hard" for "rigid", before these drives had an established and universally-agreed-upon name. Some time ago, IBM's internal company term for an HDD was "file".

HDDs (introduced in 1956 as data storage for an IBM accounting computer) were originally developed for use with general purpose computers.

Hard Disks or Discount Drives or Cheap Drives are easily availlable at low prices and you can buy them easily from Discountechnology.

Motorola Launches RAZR2 V8 Luxury Edition

The MOTORAZR2 V8 Luxury Edition has reportedly been launched in India.The 12.05mm slim phone has 18k and 24k gold plated accents against a luminous, black slate, vacuum metal finish. It has pin stripes on the lens, an engraved diamond-cut pattern on the sideband, linear etching on the navigation wheel and a soft-touch back, embossed with a snakeskin effect. It has a 2.2" internal screen, a 2.0 MP camera with 8 x digital zoom, 2 GB of on-board memory, USB 2.0, MotoSync and CrystalTalk technology for clear voice quality in noisy environments.

The special edition RAZR2 comes with a black slate Motorola H680 headset with 18K gold accents and a patent leather carrying case.Source

HTC Touch Cruise Launched In India

HTC has launched the HTC Touch Cruise HSDPA enabled handset, the third member of the HTC Touch product family and the first to feature built-in GPS for personal navigation. As with the other Touch handsets the Cruise also employs HTC’s TouchFLO technology for finger touch scrolling and browsing of web pages, documents, messages and contact lists. TouchFLO also offers the ability to view photos and photo slideshows using on-screen controls and to zoom and rotate images with only one hand.The HTC Touch Cruise comes in Black Sapphire and has a quick access Home screen for access to emails, text messages, calendar appointments and contacts as well as current weather conditions and forecasts for various cities. Users can then sweep their finger up the display to launch an animated, three-dimensional interface comprising three screens: Contacts, Media and Applications. The new Touch Cruise also comes equipped with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and has a large 2.8 inch touch screen. It runs on Windows Mobile 6 Professional with built-in Windows Media Player for Audio and Video.

"The original HTC Touch has already proved to be a phenomenal success in India, and the HTC Touch Cruise with fully integrated GPS adds another dimension to our leading touchscreen device family", said Ajay Sharma, Country Manager, HTC (India).The HTC Touch Cruise utilizes mapping and navigation solutions from the MapKing R12 application. Other key features include a 3 megapixel auto-focus camera, FM radio and microSD memory card slot for adding to the 256MB ROM and 128MB RAM. In addition, it comes with WorldCard Mobile to manage business cards.The HTC Touch Cruise will be available at all authorized resellers at a suggested retail price of Rs. 32,990.Source

Lenovo Unveils IdeaPad U110

Lenovo has announced the availability of the IdeaPad U110 consumer notebook PC in red and black on their website.

The notebook has a frameless screen, weighs less than 2.5 pounds and is 11 inches wide. It is equipped with VeriFace Face Recognition, so users can quickly and easily log-in without having to remember passwords. The U110 features a 120 GB hard drive, up to 3 GB of memory, Intel Centrino processing technology, a built-in camera, WLAN, Ethernet and Bluetooth (select models) connectivity, an external DVD burner and the Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium operating system. The laptop comes with an additional battery for up to eight hours of battery life in total.
The U110 is equipped with Dolby Home Theatre and the MultiMedia Control Center with regard to multimedia and carries an MSRP of Rs. 98,000.Source

BenQ Introduces C36 Music Phone

BenQ has launched its successor to the BenQ C30, the BenQ C36 music phone.The 78g mobile phone features a 1.3-megapixel camera that supports AVI video recording and playback, and can double as a webcam when connected to a PC. It's also equipped with a 2" LCD display and top key design that brings direct access to FM radio, MP3 player and camera functions.

The C36's multimedia functions include a built-in FM radio with recording and schedule recording functions and an MP3 player that supports MP3, WAV, MIDI and AMR formats.The C36 also adds an e-book reader and a photo editor for touching up photos and comes with dual speaker for sharing music and a MicroSD card slot and USB connectivity.The BenQ C36 will be available in Indonesia in May with other countries to follow in the coming months.Source

Lenovo Ideapad Y710 to be Launched Soon

Designed for the entertainment enthusiast, the 17-inch IdeaPad Y710 notebook will be available in India by the end of this month.The notebook features a smooth blue metallic finish and halo lighting. An optional hot-swap secondary hard drive provides up to 500 GB of storage for games, movies and photos.

For the ultimate gaming experience, Lenovo offers models including Game Zone. These notebooks have oversized directional buttons and others that can be customized for easier control in the fast environment of gaming. Game Zone also includes a secondary display showing information like CPU speed. Users can power the notebook up to Turbo Mode for maximum power and drop down to a Quiet Mode to save energy. This performance notebook comes with extreme processing technology, hybrid graphics, WLAN connectivity, a DVD burner and an optional Blu-Ray DVD player.The Y710 Ideapad will be available for Rs. 78,000.Source

Apple iPod Shuffle Price Slashed

The Apple iPod Shuffle will now cost Rs. 2,700 for the 1GB model - that's down from Rs. 4500. Apple has introduced a new 2 GB model of the iPod shuffle for Rs. 3,200 before taxes."At just Rs. 2,300, the iPod shuffle is the most affordable iPod ever," said EY Yeo, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Apple Asia Pacific. "We've also introduced a new 2GB model that lets music lovers bring even more songs everywhere they go in the impossibly small iPod shuffle."

The iPod shuffle comes in four colors - silver, blue, green and purple with up to 12 hours of continuous audio playback. It syncs seamlessly with iTunes and the "Auto-fill" function allows the iPod shuffle to randomly select songs from a music library and sync them. "With most flash-memory music players, users must use tiny displays and complicated controls to find their music; with iPod shuffle you just relax and it serves up new combinations of your music every time you listen." said EY Yeo.Source

Spice, Qualcomm Launch 3G Devices

Spice Mobiles has collaborated with Qualcomm to bring 3G CDMA (CDMA2000 and WCDMA) devices to the Indian market. The two new Spice handsets - S-950, the first Indian branded 3G device and C-810, a full-featured CDMA2000 device for the open market in India, was unveiled by actor Katrina Kaif. Spice Mobile S-950 is based on Qualcomm's Mobile Station Modem (MSM) MSM6245 chipset solution, designed for 3G devices that have wireless multimedia features. S-950 supports wideband services like high-speed Internet, high resolution video and enhanced quality image transmission with the same quality as fixed networks.

The slider device also offers a 2MP camera, 262K color screen, music player (mp3/AAC/AAC+), stereo bluetooth, inbuilt stereo FM radio, video playback, JAVA, expandable memory support along with backward compatibility with EDGE/GPRS/GSM. This phone also comes with value added content and applications like Google Search, Opera mini Browser, NGPay application for banking/ticketing etc, and preloaded content from the Bollywood film 'Jannat'. Spice Mobile C-810 is based on the QSC6020 chipset from the Qualcomm Single-Chip (QSC) family of solutions that enables smaller, sleeker, more power-efficient devices.

Spice maintains that the multimedia handset offers a 15-day standby/10-hour talk-time and storage capacity of 500 songs or 1000 images. It features a 2.2" display screen, 1.3MP camera, Music Player (mp3/AAC), inbuilt FM radio video player, Bluetooth, BREW and expandable memory support.Source

Sandisk Launches HD Video Flash Card Line

As the first of a new category of storage media, SanDisk launched the Video HD cards to be available in SDHC (high-capacity) and Memory Stick PRO Duo formats, and will be identified by minutes of recording time as well as by capacity."The SanDisk Video HD line takes the mystery out of selecting the proper memory for these new camcorders," said Susan Park, senior product marketing manager for SanDisk's Cards and Accessories Division. "The bright red packaging and the bold labeling of recording times give consumers an easy way to select memory cards for video." The cards are designed to be high performance and optimized for high-definition camcorders, but they can also be used in recording standard video. "Further, the cards work well in point-and-shoot digital still cameras that have video capabilities", she added.

The market for flash-enabled camcorders is expected to grow in popularity. Research company IDC predicts that by 2011, some 37 percent of global camcorder shipments will be models that record onto memory cards, and well over half of camcorders will feature HD video capture. "With HD video quickly penetrating the category, it will be critical for vendors to provide seamless recording experiences," said Christopher Chute, research manager of IDC's worldwide digital imaging practice. "The SanDisk Video HD card is well-positioned to service this expanding market by simplifying the memory message for consumers," he added.
The SanDisk Video HD cards are expected to be available starting in March for North America and shortly afterwards for Europe. They will be offered in 60-minute (4GB) and 120-minute (8GB) times – on the HD Standard setting – for both SDHC and Memory Stick PRO Duo formats. Suggested retail prices are $79.99 and $139.99, respectively, for the 4GB and 8GB SDHC cards, and $79.99 and $149.99, respectively, for the Memory Stick PRO Duo cards.Source

Motorola Launches The MOTOYUVA W270

Motorola has launched the clamshell MOTOYUVA W270 that offers an inbuilt MP3 player with dedicated MP3 and FM keys. These keys can be operated even with the flip closed to adjust the volume for music, change FM channels and MP3 music tracks. The phone has integrated stereo FM radio with RDS support that allows you to view the FM station, artist’s name and name of the song you are listening to.

MOTOYUVA W270 offers storage of up to 2 GB of expandable memory with a touted talk time of up to 550 minutes and 450 hours of standby time. The phone is equipped with CrystalTalk technology that helps reduce ambient noise. The phone book is capable of storing up to 500 names, while the phone also comes with what the company calls a 'Hinglish predictive text software'.

“We believe MOTOYUVA W270 will redefine mobile music and create a paradigm shift in ‘making music listening a style statement’,” said Lloyd Mathias, Director Marketing, India & South West Asia, Motorola Mobile Devices. “MOTOYUVA W270 is a music lover’s dream in a stylish, attractively priced clamshell form factor. We are making a very compelling offer to an aspiring Indian music enthusiast to have fun-on-the-go, always!”
The phone comes equipped with GPRS Class 10, and a T-Flash Card support up to 2GB. The MOTOYUVA W270 is available in India at all MOTOSTOREs and retailers and comes with a 256MB microSD card, USB cable and stereo headset at a best buy price of Rs. 3,360, while the MRP is Rs. 3,583.Source