Wednesday, May 26, 2004
CeBIT 2004 Press Event News
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 09:30 AM
As you all know, CeBIT is here in America, here in New York, for the second time. I was there last year but as a lowly attendee. This year, due to my involvement with DMT, I got press credentials and have been privy to some cool events where folks from industry display their wares only for the press.
There was one such event last night - the Digital Experience! media event - held at the Metropolitan Pavilion where the people from CeBIT wined and dined us while about 50 different companies gave us personalized demos on their latest hardware/software. Here is my report of all the cool devices that I saw.
Immediately after registering, we were ushered past the ice sculpted martini bar towards the hordes of booths.
The first booth that I visited was Nokia where I saw the Nokia 7610, a nice black design making it look quite sweet. That large screen was very nice. But more impressive was the Nokia 6810 Messaging Communicator. It is a nice small cell phone that expands out to give access to a full keyboard. The phone is meant to be more of a communicator and is capable of Mobile email, MMS, Instant Messaging, messaging keyboard, multitasking and Bluetooth wireless technology.
However, what was most impressive was the Nokia 9500 Communicator. This looks like a device designed particularly for industry and business people. This device really blew me away. It will be available in Q4 this year with T-Mobile (apparently). It will be expandable via a Flash slot and you will be able to browse the Internet in rich full color, on a wide, easy-to-read screen (800x480). The device's responsiveness was fantastic and is much lighter than it looks. With the screen, the expandability, integrated Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and a VGA camera, this is a very nice solution.
There was one such event last night - the Digital Experience! media event - held at the Metropolitan Pavilion where the people from CeBIT wined and dined us while about 50 different companies gave us personalized demos on their latest hardware/software. Here is my report of all the cool devices that I saw.
Immediately after registering, we were ushered past the ice sculpted martini bar towards the hordes of booths.
The first booth that I visited was Nokia where I saw the Nokia 7610, a nice black design making it look quite sweet. That large screen was very nice. But more impressive was the Nokia 6810 Messaging Communicator. It is a nice small cell phone that expands out to give access to a full keyboard. The phone is meant to be more of a communicator and is capable of Mobile email, MMS, Instant Messaging, messaging keyboard, multitasking and Bluetooth wireless technology.
However, what was most impressive was the Nokia 9500 Communicator. This looks like a device designed particularly for industry and business people. This device really blew me away. It will be available in Q4 this year with T-Mobile (apparently). It will be expandable via a Flash slot and you will be able to browse the Internet in rich full color, on a wide, easy-to-read screen (800x480). The device's responsiveness was fantastic and is much lighter than it looks. With the screen, the expandability, integrated Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and a VGA camera, this is a very nice solution.
