The exhibition, four years ago, is startling in its scope, today occupies a very small area in two halls of the Expocentre at Krasnaya Presnya. Changed and greatly reduced participation. Apparently affected by high rates of participation in the exhibition.
Handhelds at Comtek
Practically not represented. Advance was known about the two companies participating: MakTsentr and Galaxy Computers. Both stand located in Hall 2, to log in which all visitors should be sure to sign up.
MakTsentr
Stand MakTsentr is in place B-121 within the exposure Hadler Networks. People around a lot, although I can say that in the autumn Softule interested people so much more.
On the stand are manufactured color devices Cassiopeia on Windows CE, durable, moisture and dust. Among the interesting features - the ability to operate at low temperatures, that Russia is an important factor. Although, as we have seen on the results of a recent expedition to the Polar Urals in the cold -20 ...- 30 works successfully even the most ordinary unsecured Cassiopeia E125. Those who do not happen at the monthly meetings of the Moscow Palmkluba where Visor Edge has already visited, it will be interesting to look at the new Palm OS PDA. The new form factor, the new speed, new color corps.
Here in the window can be considered the most diverse periphery Xircom, as well as PDAs Rex 6000, a great article which will appear in the Journal of Mobile Computing "and in the pages HPCru.
Palm promised 5000 is clearly visible in the photo above behind stand assistants. It is difficult, of course, to call this a pocket computer, but all other functionality is implemented at the Palm. As souvenirs at the booth distributed calendars hPCru.
Galaxy Computers
The biggest stand for handheld computers is represented by Galaxy Computers (Stand B343). On the tables of visitors expected to Psion 5mx, Revo Plus and other devices from Psion. There are no hot new products from Psion we have not seen.
Part of the booth dedicated to scanning handles C-Pen, is becoming more common. Here to showcase a large collection of Workabout industrial devices and accessories.
Pilot
We walked almost the whole show in search of yet no traces of handheld devices, but almost to no avail. "Almost" because it failed to find even two copies of the CCP.
One of them, Symbol SPT 1500, is located on the company pilot, whose profile is directly related to the objective of inventory control and automation of trading activity.It is protected on the Palm OS PDA with built-in barcode scanner.
Microstar
In a public hall forum showed quite unknown to us Microstar MS Pocket PC 2010. Stand 544 is representative of a well-known among PC users for its motherboards manufacturer Microstar. Among the many cards and other components is a box with MS Pocket PC 2010.
The main characteristics of the machines directly from the stand.
MS 2010 is on its own operating system MineOS. On assurances stand workers, represented by the unit - just a prototype, so that some features not yet implemented. Courtesy was a little bit to work with the CPC. Feeling somewhat vague, about the same, which remained at the time of the Royal DaVinci DV2. On the other hand, everything seems to work, a critical success factor may be the price. In the near future we expect the appearance of colored patterns. Here is the main screen MS 2010.
Everything Else
One of the companies represented curious translucent holographic panel. Video images are quite clear, however, clearly visible to the squares that make up the panel itself.
Interesting objects were found at another booth. No screen, we did not see the image as if floating just in the air.
Who said that the glands do not have souls?
Walking past the booth of Kaspersky Lab, which in the midst of a show, we heard the question facilitator: "Under what platform has just been made AVP?". A faint voice from the crowd: "Palm OS!" - "Right!" At the last meeting of the Moscow Palmkluba betatestery AVP asked developers to make a test program a couple of viruses, and then have to look for. No comments.
Thus, the former swing Comtek was history, on the subject of handheld computers to find anything difficult. The authors, translation:
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