Communiasia 2008

This year, I registered for the technological exhibition as a trade visitor (anyway, this exhibition is only for trade visitors duhz). Managed to get to see some of the latest technologies (eg Wimax, DVB, etc), electronics products, networking products and of course, my favorite section, mobile phone!

So took a half day leave and travelled all the way to Expo to catch this event. The place is packed with businessmen, engineers and people of other professions to check out the technology and products.

Well, I do walked around the Wireless Section, Satcomms Section, etc... but I stayed the longest is at the mobile phone technology section, and that's about the only place where I took some photos (although not very clear)
First I stopped by the Samsung booth, where they had set up a big booth I must say, considering the amount of electronics gadgets they are showing. Here's some of the photos taken:

Sammy's own UMPC, which is a touchscreen with a foldable keyboard. Size is about 1/3 smaller than  the Asus eeePC 900. This is shown with the keyboard open......

And touch sensitive media player controls are visible when the keyboard is closed. Too bad, you won't get to see this selling in Singapore though.

The Sammy's own Touch Wizard UI as shown. Yes, you can drag those widgets anywhere on the screen.

Highlight of their booth: the upcoming Omnia PPC phone (i900). There you see the Omnia phones are exhibited on  the Microsoft's Surface platform. Wonder what is Microsoft Surface? Check this out. In a nutshell, Microsoft Surface will introduce the features and specifications of the phone when you place the phone on the platform.

Omnia in my hand. It's a PPC running WM6.1 Professional, carrying a 5MP auto focus camera with WQVGA 262k TFT screen, built in GPS with geotagging capability, built in accelerometer sensor and a mini mousepad (mousepad? yes you got that right)

After Samsung, I moved on to one of my favorite booth...NTT  DoCoMo! Why the fascination you might ask...cos the Japanese makes the coolest and most high-tech mobile phones known to man.

Demotrator showing off the capability of LTE technology. Demostration showed that use can transfer a 9.5MB file from server to client in 1 sec while the bandwidth is being used to stream 8 HD videos to the 2 TVs shown in the photo. They claimed a bandwidth of 255Mbps!

Took a picture of the DoCoMo's Sony Ericsson clamshell using the Sony Bravia LCD technology. Why don't SE bring this kind of phone to our market as well?

The DoCoMo booth also demostrated how the phones can be used to send interactive emails, playing 3D games with stunning graphics and the best feature (in my opinion of course) the phone wallet, which you can use your phone to take trains, buy stuffs and even lock/unlock your house door!

After the 2 booths, we moved on to the rest of the areas which we did not take any pictures. Nevertheless, it is an eye opener for first-timer like me to see all the different professional equipments used for the latest technological implementations. Will certainly come back again next year.