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Comdex 2001 Coverage With a Handheld Twist
Phillip M. Torrone writes: "Gosh folks, a thousand words couldn't describe how great Comdex 2001 was this year for me. But, about 300 pictures may help. Your pal pt from flashenabled.com/mobile has it all. Memory stick and SD GPS units, Cameras, Microwaves and Bluetooth; The new Sharp Linux PDA with keyboard; Bluetooth everything, Pocket PCs, Sony robot dogs, Sony Ericsson and Nokia phones, Windows XP, Xbox, Merecedes Benz test drives, Klingons, the Strip, virtual keyboards, DoCoMo, Harry Potter and more. The coverage is almost as good as being there."
All 300 thumbnails on the same page ?!?
You're just begging for a slashdotting aren't you. Does your ISP have its bandwidth ready?
Is this the real coverage of comdex? wheres redhat etc? Anyone know where i can get non handheldified coverage of comdex?
Microsoft IIS is to webserving as KFC is to healthy eating
Correction: The coverage is almost as good as being there assuming you have broadband to d/l the 300+ photos.
Otherwise, the coverage is as good as being there but being forced to move around the convention floor in a powered wheelchain that has a 0.3 m/s speed limit. Sigh. Hopefully they're showing something that can extend wireless broadband reliably to where they'd never set up DSL or fiber. Does anyone with broadband see anything like this?
Please explain this picture
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Man, I was bummed out by comdex this year. Where was the cool Linux business expo that there was last year? Granted, Linux International was there, and I got my picture taken with John Maddog, but I was disapointed.
Any attendees present? How was the secuirty? Was it lax, or was it long lines and metal-detectors galore?
I thought they prohibited everything on the show floor including bags, cameras, laptops, PDAs, and other tech toys.
Or is this a case of what they put in writing is just CYA, and not what they actually do?
A pocket PC advert? 300 pics of junk? What a waste of pixels.
OMFG. Give me one of these now. Right now.
Hand it over.
I'll dump a whole paycheck on one of those.
The Comdex page is here. The URL in the article points to a mobile Flash-worshipping site (which does indeed link to the Comdex bit (but is covered in images as well)).
Could you please not mention "Klingon" and "strip" so close together in the future please? The treckies among us are all going to be violently ill.
and heres a great pic from the Microsoft area at COMDEX ;-)
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
This is a little offtopic, but then...
From the site -
Review: Some of the media gives Microsoft a bad rap, that might be because most of the media is AOL/Time/Warner. I've been pretty lucky to meet lots of folks from Microsoft in the last year and they're a great passionate crew and the result is a profitable company with cool products, so I'm pretty excited about this particular annual meeting to say the least!
Huh? What the hell? What has this guy been smoking?
biggest waist of a week i have ever done.
The virtual keyboard "Senseboard" was really cool. It won best technology award. See here
smau smau!
Hello, has anyone of you seen the virtual keyboard? Have you tried it? How does it work? How much will it cost and when it will it be available? Some URLs?
Bill Gates innovated the Harry Potter look.
Linux is dying.
My first real break into the dot com wave was because of comdex.
There was a small taiwanese motherboard wholesaler, this was when P133's were like 600 bucks. Just a small 2 man outfit of two guys that hardly spoke a word of english. Their investors had gotten them a spot at comdex and they needed a token white boy to be their headman at the show.
I think I was only about 21 then and had never worked an office job. The thought of a company paying for me to fly to Las Vegas and put me up in a hotel was exciting to me.
16 hours without break later...
These guys would not let me take a break, a lunch, nothing. They worked me like a slave from day start to days end for 16 hours a day, 3 days in a row. My ankles were so swollen even though there was tons of people ahead of me on the plane, one show of those abnormally swollen ankles to the stewardess not only got me on first, but I got to sit in a section with a seat facing me so I could put my feet up. I could not walk for a day afterwards.
When I think of comdex, I think of painful, swollen ankles and sore feet.
and a link to michael's site and to jon katz's site if he has one and homo's site. i dont know what else to say. maybe a few links to phallic.org they have nice penis pictures! a link to the planet quake site or whatever. really make the reader feel this faq really answers their questions. oh yeah, and when you talk about cmdrtaco snotting you, say he brought you to "orgasm after sweaty orgasm". describe it more is all i'm saying. and use more italics and bolding! and when you talk about jon katz shitting or whatever have a link to fecal japan on rotten.com
other wise a great job wipo troll! keep up the good work!
I went to the site, but it just seems to be Pocket PC adverts, most of them seem to be screen themes rather than anything useful.
Where's all the interesting stuff?
All those startrek toys give me an idea that a dooming end of the new economy could not be far away.
Why fly with an airplane right into Comdex? That would be a big improvement to the overal impression!
I'm glad you cant use linux.
I dont want a fuckhead like you in it!
Most of those reasons above are why I and many many other LOVE linux.
You're a toss
You (Cmdr Taco et al) are a bunch of idiots.
I know this, because I actually use Linux/PGSQL/Gimp, and Cmdr doesn't.
The pictures are largely of wireless phones, so it's obviously a Control phone, updated for today's most lucrative market.
Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks: temporary loans from the Public Domain, not real property ("intellectual" or otherwise)
Nokia's 9290 phone/PDA thing is soooo cool. I got to look at it at E3 earlier this year, but only at Comdex did I see it doing some actual operation. They had one playing a realvideo stream, and some others running games. This one lady had a digicam watch and she took a picture of me, then pointed the watch at the 9290 and beamed my image across. Then she displayed it on the screen and proceeded to say how she could now email it off if she wanted. Freaky!
:)
The next cool device was the new Sharp SL-5000D PDA, running Qt/Palmtop. I saw it at Trolltech's booth. It has this fold-out keyboard thing, which is surprisingly usable. If it has a built in GSM modem, it would be a serious contender to the Nokia 9290. For me, the only reason I would choose the Sharp would be ease of programming. Instead of having to learn EPOC programming (for the Nokia) I could just use Qt.
Speaking of "just use Qt", Trolltech even had an iBook at the booth running Qt/Mac on it. Call me crazy, but I began to hack on the laptop right there for about 20 or 30 minutes. I was able to create a couple useless testing programs. Worked as advertised! Even the pulsating default buttons. This was only the second time I've laid hands on a machine running MacOS X, and I was already able to program applications for it. Hmm, maybe it will be a tough call between the Nokia and Sharp.
A few other minor things caught my eye, but these were the big ones. Overall, it wasn't as interesting as this year's E3 (which wasn't very interesting either actually). Funny thing: ATI was showing off GameCubes (I guess they make the video chipset?), and Microsoft and Sony had XBox and PS2 there as well. Perhaps they wanted it to be E3
Why?
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From the 2 booths at the "Linux Hatchery" (take a left at the shiatzu chairs and continue to the end of nowhere) to the lack of big names (IBM, Oracle, Sun, Sharp) to the ham-handed "security" policies (they kept kicking people out of the Hilton area and making them stand outside for 30 minutes to hear keynotes) to the lack of attendees (just walk right onto a shuttle bus at 4:15pm on opening day), this Comdex sucked. When the biggest "new thing" was the Handspring Treo and the number of companies offering massage chairs and pain therapy outnumber Linux/Unix booths 10 to 1, it's time to give up on Comdex. Apparently all the *nix people already did.
No one ever had to evacuate a city because the solar panels broke!
You went to his keynote too, eh?
it's a high tech shoe from timberland.
Wish I could go to Comdex (I'm in the Uk), but having a cable modem and a guy like this does !
... either that or the mm02 XDA ..... roll on 2002 !
Goulash
PS : Sharp PDA mmmmmmmmm
I checked all the photos... not a single booth babe. Not even one! Only boring gadgets.
Phil, let me put it bluntly: You suck.