This week in Hanover, Germany is the largest international high-tech fair CeBIT-2003. Annually for one week exhibition halls of the city center transformed into a giant presentation area and a meeting place for representatives of the leading IT-companies in the world, as well as small and medium-sized businesses. At this time in Hannover came about six and a half thousand exhibitors from 72 countries. A total of booths occupied 355,892 square meters. It is curious that of about 1500 square meters, or 5 percent of the total area reserved for domestic companies. This year, the year our country is represented by 90 participants. Unfortunately, the Russian representative in comparison with 2002 has slightly decreased. True, considering the companies from the CIS, a piece of «hi-tech-pie" Russia is a bit more respectable. However, catch up and overtake the leaders of the absolute direction - United States, Taiwan and the UK - in the foreseeable future is unlikely.
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At this year's CeBIT was sent correspondent HPCru, who sent us many pictures and shared first impressions. So bring you a quick report in the form of images from the exhibition. First, as usual PDA news. Our correspondent first of all looked at the booths of Sony and Palm. But first of Sony. Handheld machines under the brand divorced so many that we are totally confused before you were able to identify all the pictures sent to us. It seems that the Japanese palmovye handhelds soon okupiruyut all price niche PDA market.
On the stand Sony cobralis all new items, which we have been told recently, until recently, represented in Hong Kong, Sony Clie PEG SJ22 - color change the black and white budget handheld SJ20, well known here in Russia.
Far from it - the older model SJ-line Sony Slie SJ33, which took the place SJ30. The screen quality, this new mid-price class can not compete with the clever device. Plus a music player with enough time off work to recharge. At a price of $ 299 handheld SJ33 is a very interesting acquisition ...:)
And it's just with the heat, with heat Sony TG50 - is the same with the built-in Bluetooth and a keyboard, with no graffiti area. Machine can be used as a voice recorder, and as a MP3-Player. The new standard economy class from Sony! In the Japanese retail will sell for $ 340. We, of course, more ...
This mastodon in all senses - hi-end Clie PEG-NZ90 ...:) not a PDA, a digital media lab. Was presented to the public at the January Comdex'e, from which began its tour of the exhibition. Want to highlight the exceptional quality of Sony + 2-megapixel built-in photo-and video-camera + excellent realized work with audio formats ...
And here's all sorts of gadgets for Con: especially liked the game console Clie GamePad ...
... Well, and mini-keyboard is also a thing in the PDA sector valuable. That's just the price of these branded accessories "bite."
Proceed to Palm'am. Until something or hearing, nor spirit about the promise and widely publicized rumors of a new web Palm Tugsten C. Well, on the other two typewriters new line of Tungsten - phone PDA W (Wireless) and T based on Palm OS 5.0, we told you repeatedly, so that except for them, nothing special on the Palm booth is not placed. A pity ... Although the company may simply fear for the fate of their precious new items, which, being provided at the time CeBIT'a, may be lost in the noise. Indeed, some competitors are not asleep.
Just surpassed all Toshiba. On the eve of the Hanover Fair PDA media were just inundated with announcements of three new machines the company - supercheap e350 (for only $ 199!), A model of economy-class Toshiba Genio e550C with built-in digital camera and hi-end e750/e755. However, the picture you can see the old familiar Toshiba Genio e550G. But with accessories - digital camera with flash ...
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... And a mysterious stranger, the same high-tech graceful beauty e750, which is taken as a basis for model e740, sold successfully in Russia for about a year. Retaining built a wireless network adapter 802.11b, novelty acquired more memory than its predecessor: in addition to 64MB of RAM it has 32MB of NAND flash memory exclusively for data storage. Also, the innovations it is worth noting that the phone jack is now possible to connect a microphone or headset on mobile phones. Thus, e750 can be used as a voice terminal in the networks of VoIP. The novelty will cost $ 599, also available modification e750 - model e755. Different machines that, firstly, on the e755 preinstalled software company PhotoBase ArcSoft, and, secondly, e750 will be sold through resellers, partners and Toshiba through a website, and e755 will be available at retail.
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| Toshiba e750 |
A clutch of interesting mobile devices, as promised last winter, showcased ASUS, known as a manufacturer of cheap palmovyh PDA. And this time the company has decided to head for the Pocket PC and has released two handheld with MyPal A710 MyPal A620, and even a smartphone based on the original OS.Thus, Asustek will join the High Tech Computer (HTC) and Compal Communications, becoming the third Taiwanese manufacturer of mobile smart devices. But first things first. Let's start with the youngest models the new line.
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From senior MyPal A620 differs only in the presence of one expansion slot standard Compact Flash (Type II), the rest of this PDA, at least, it has been at our disposal, the characteristics of a Pocket PC medium price range (closer to the Hi-end), but the exact One can not say because we do not know how much it will cost this machine. "For," says that the CPC is based on the new processor Intel XScale PXA 255 400 MHz, is controlled by the Pocket PC 2002, carries a 32 MB Flash ROM and 64 MB SDRAM. Equipped with a transflective LCD display 3.5, at 320x240 pixels and 65.536 colors, infrared port, built-in microphone and speaker. Included are supplied headphones. Weighs 141 g, Dimensions - 76x125x13 mm.
The older model MyPal A710 due to the second supplementary standard SD slot has turned more weighty - 190 g. The rest of it repeats the above described machine.
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And here is the promised smartphone called AGP-600, running as yet unknown version of OC Microsoft Smartphone Ozone (!) In mobile networks GSM / GPRS. As the provisions of all smart phones today, it is equipped with a built-in digital camera, Bluetooth and can work with MMS, JAVA-support applications, toys, listen to the voice commands, and can also be used as MP3-and video player. Information on price and immediate availability of the new items manufacturer has not yet reported. We now turn to the stand the other, no less prolific and outstanding Taiwanese company MiTAC. She brought to CeBIT brand new Pocket PC Mio 338 Plus - apparently, the model going to replace the 338 is apparently better known in Russia under the name Rover P3. How, exactly, this usovershestvovan PDA medium price range is still unknown, but will wait for the information and prepare for a possible upgrade in line Rover'ov.
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In addition to the CCP, MiTAC presented and recently announced Mio 728 PDA-based phone edition Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 OS (pictured below) ...
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... And a smartphone with a digital camera MIO 8380 OS-based Smartphone 2002. All devices of the platform are equipped with a screen resolution of 220 x 176 pixels without sensory input and joystick control. MIO 8380 (way nazyvanetsya new) will be the first smartphone based on the above operating systems, equipped with built-in digital camera (110 kilopixels and zoom). In addition, this "smart phone" features MPEG-4 decoder for prosmorta video and MP3 player, LCD screen size 2.2 inches, and SD card slot for extra memory. MIO 8380 phone features are standard: a tri-band GSM (900, 1800 and 1900 MHz), support for GPRS, you can receive, send SMS and multimedia messaging (MMS). Mio 8380 also supports high-speed wireless access to email and the global network through MSN Messenger. In Preinstalled software includes a special version of the browser Internet Explorer.Price and terms of the start of deliveries were not disclosed.
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| cmartfon Mio 8380 |
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The exhibition of this scale, of course, not without all-different small things like a nice accessory for Pocket PC. Basically were all sorts of card peripherals ...
Well-known manufacturer of flash storage cards and peripherals on their basis the company Pretec as always excelled. Not only that presented the most high-capacity Compact Flash card standard volume 6 Gb (!), But also brought with her a lot of accessories for PDAs, including many multi-CF-modules "two in one": GPRS + 128MB memory card, Bluetooth hybrid and GPS, GPS-receiver and a 128MB flash drive. Also at the booth on display here is a digital camera on the map SD, with the help of which you can take pictures at 640x480.
This cute "appendage" would also work with Pocket PC, and Palm.
... GPS-receivers - on the CF-cards and wireless, communicating with the PDA to Bluetooth ...
... Пылевлаговодонепроницаемые covers palmovyh and Pocket PC. Is that a biometric system without user identification and foolproof ...:)))
... All that is written in this wonderful notebook, immediately transferred to a PDA ...
Stylish little thing - the car audiokompleksa from Blaupunkt, controlled via Bluetooth Pocket PC HP iPAQ, - in the best traditions of Q - the official supplier of technical equipment for the 007, the same principal inventor of the British MI-6, if you remember:)
Hi-tech haute couture ...
Now about kontseptulnom creativity of some developers, or so-called trends, flows and directions of computer fashion, by which their desire to pass impossible.Some of the participants CeBIT'a apparently so afraid not to have time to show that demonstirovali on their stands here are semi ...:)
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| Paco Rabban, with its metallic skirts nervously smokes away ...:) |
But this miniature computer - something like a boat, assembled in a glass bottle. According to the creators, it's the smallest PC to date, based on the Pentium 4 processor, a prisoner in a case, the height of three cards from our correspondent, that is 15 cm:)
Last squeak or as they say, "Glamour" - a water cooling system of a desktop PC. And what about the power generator for laptops or PDAs with squirrel move?;))
A copy of this can be safely put on the contest, "What does it mean?" By the way, what would you have a version on this score:)
Here too, the thing in itself ... Probably a sensor for measuring the speed of flight football. That's not all images from the exhibition. To be continued. Wait a second part of the article next week and watch our news! The authors, translation:
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