Hasselblad - the ultimate high-end camera maker - have released their new medium digital camera, the H3D-31. Photographyblog (appropriately enough) covers the Hasselblad press release, and gives us some specs. (Thanks to Engadget for linking)

It’s a 31 megapixel (no, there’s no decimal place in there)  digital, with a 48mm (full-frame for medium-format) sensor. It’s slightly cheaper than it’s 39 Megapixel bigger brother, at around USD$25k.

In related news, A-Data have released a 128GB solid-state disk with a SATA interface. (Via Engadget, too) Small enough to whack a dozen or two in a photography lab server, coupled with some rediculously fast SATA-RAID controllers.  I’m practicly drooling at the thought.  ‘Course, it could also be integrated into a smart-phone device. 

Hello, Nokia, are you paying attention? Yes, you need to put one of these and a nice fast processor (like an XScale @ 624mhz?) in your next smartphone, thanks.

Actually, my ideal smart phone would be having an upgraded version of Windows Mobile 5 (with WPF and .NET Compact Framework 3.0 support built in) an XScale or similarly fast processor, dedicated video hardware, 8GB+ storage, 3-4Mpx Camera + VGA Video Camera, and WCDMA (3G on 850Mhz) support.  Then they could set-loose some smart developers & designers and really kick some major backside in the smartphone department.