CEATEC 2010 Exhibition Reviews Shared
You've been hearing about the CEATEC 2010 event that took place in Japan consisting of several prototypes: robots, cameras, TVs, tablets, cellphones and many more advanced technologies. This is Asia’s largest technology and electronics exhibition held each year. PPCGeeks member gTen has spotted an interesting article at Engadget.com along with other articles we have found around the internet and we'd like to share with everyone here.
WiMAX 2 Mobile Broadband - 330Mbps
The first interesting article from this huge exhibition that we are going to share is what gTen is so excited about. We quote gTen saying "If sprint can roll this out and have Epic 4g and Evo 4g run at 300mbps we will all be in heaven..." Take a look for yourself and see just what comes to mind when you learn more about WIMAX2 mobile broadband (link here).
Fujitsu dual-touchscreen phone like Nintendo DS
Although it's not a device found in the US, this is a very nice piece of technology. Also found at Engadget (link here) and shown at the CEATEC convention, the Fujitsu dual-touchscreen phone is almost ready for production. It seems that TAT (The Astonishing Tribe), a Swedish mobile UI design company, has teamed up with Fujitsu and created a spectacular, dual-touchscreen phone that will be very popular in the Japanese market. One cool feature is the 960 x 480 resolution displays that are side-by-side and will swivel for multiple formatting options. Watch the video found at Engadget to see this device in action.
Sharp's Galapagos Android Tablets
Also spotted at the CEATEC convention and articles found at CrunchGear.com (link here) were Sharp's, as we know it, Galapagos hybrid tablets which also happened to be one of the biggest attractions of the whole exhibition. As far as we know the readers will be available in a 5.5" as well as a 10.8" size. December is when Japanese buyers will be able to purchase either tablet but no word yet on international availability.
Sources: Engadget & CrunchGear.com
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this is all us evo owners need. cause then we will be able to take over the world!!! muhahahahaaaa
you must be speaking of wimax2
I have a dream…in that dream I filled up my entire 16gb sd card in less then a minute by downloading stuff from the internet (If you tell me thats impossible cause the write speeds of the SD card will never catch up I will do very mean things to you >.> lol)…I also plead 5th amendment on the content of the stuff downloaded in that said dream lol…seriously sprint get to work..its a minor upgrade that utilizes your current towers..
lmFAO @ WIMAX2.. WIMAX is dead in the water right now.. Clearwire is flat broke, Sprint(50%+ stake in CW) doesnt have the money to buy Clearwire up outright, and T-Mobile turned down CLearwire to join together…
Sure its a good idea, but whos going to invest in WIMAX2 when WIMAX(1) is failing ATM… Time Warner/Comcast and the other Minor investors in WIMAX have all said they wont contribute any more money either..
….and 330MBps??? ummmmm, HOLY WOW BATMAN!!!! but thats more than 6x faster than ATTs current home internet service(which boast a measley 24MBps avg)..
doesnt it seem odd that Carriers would be able to jump from 4G(3MBps to 7 avg) alllllllllllll the way to 330MBps in say only a year or so’s time??? Guess theyre holding out on something, wouldnt you say???
all-in-all, obviously any of us would love to see improve network Data speeds.. so I welcome the idea of a WIMAX2, but I dont think investors will, since WIMAX seems to be sinking fast
oops.. damn i type too long sometimes lol.. i wanted to comment on the Tablet too..
Im kind of glad Android Tabs are taking off.. ive been looking at them for about a year now.. you can usually find 8″-10″-ers, sporting FROYO for under $200… watch out though on these suckers, they hardware is usally where they fail.. most only have 256MB RAM/ROM, VGA(yes only VGA) Cameras, and other few year old technologies… i didnt watch the VIDS from the link, but I didnt see ANY hardware specs and someone in the comments mentions “That LAG would kill me” – probably because of the inferior processors and other hardware specs
Do your research before buying Tablets folks!!! make sure to check ALL the Specs!!
@boredandtattooed – I do agree that sprint kinda killed Clearwire…but I wouldn’t exactly say wimax is dead as it is used in many places around the world. Some countries themselves plan to build out wimax networks (for internet purposes, not cellphones)
Thats said 330mbps is not odd..remember wimax came out quite a while ago(maybe 5 years or more)..wimax 2 on the other hand still did not finalize its specs, it will finish this November. Wimax 1 is capable of 70mbps dld, wimax 2 is capable of 1gbps dld…while sprint wont reach 70mbps the reason you are getting such slow speeds on wimax 1 is for 2 reasons:
1) sprint caps wimax at 10mb/1mb
2) sprint is using a small amount of spectrum 1/2 of what verizon is using for LTE…but they have 3x more spectrum then what they are using..if they used all the spectrum for speed they would get 30mb-50mb dld
The cool thing about this wimax 2 announcement from samsung is you do not need to buy completely new equipment..its just an addon to the current equipment and a firmware update.
But overall if wimax were to die in the US, it would be sprint’s fault.