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Assorted CEATEC Photos

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the let-the-speculation-being dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "The folks over at Techdirt got their hands on a bunch of very cool pictures from the CEATEC show for advanced technologies in Japan." It's an odd smorgasboard of stuff, and several of the toys actually look extremely interesting: course there isn't a lot of data. Tons of color handhelds integrated with phones, remote controls, farm animals, etc.

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  1. Too many secrets by sammy+baby · · Score: 4

    I'm really disappointed that we didn't see any pictures of the SEATEC Astronomy project. I've heard they're to die for.

    Wait - I'm sorry. CEATEC? My bad.

  2. Concept Phones by interiot · · Score: 4
    I think these are called "concept phones". Very few of the cell phones now being released to customers have any of these features:
    • Large screen size
    • Color screens
    • Oval screens
    • Touch screen
    • Motion video
    • Cameras the size of a phone button
    It's the type of features that everyone wants but nobody wants to pay the prices for because the technology just isn't there yet. (there are a few commercial phones with some of these features, but not in any significant volume)

    Links to other concept phone galleries:

    ZDNet - Road to 3G
    FutureZone - Telecom 99 Photo Gallery
    CeBIT 1999
    Wireless Review - Future Phone
    WSJ - Staying in Touch
    BW - The Latest Web-Phone Wonders Are...Still Out of Reach "Clearly, somewhere between the trade fairs and the marketplace, Ericsson runs into troubles"

    If you look hard enough, you can find references to all sorts of fantastic phones that won't exist for quite a while.
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