Feedback-Ekspokomm'2002: mobile life "behind the glass&quot

Today, May 13, opened in Moscow 14-th International exhibition of communication systems, telecommunications, computers and office equipment, "Communication-Ekspokomm'2002. Meeting place as usual Expocentre. Exhibitors include about 800 exhibitors from 34 countries, including 650 Russian. The exhibition is indeed prettier every year. Unlike the Comtek, which recently took place there on her reign, "Color democracy," she noticeably richer, more ambitious, optimistic. Stand are known for exhibitors met with great taste, humor and cost a lot of money. Almost each of them drilled their own lives, spends endless show: there are clowns and dogs, and musicians, and students (some reason with a black eye), dance jigs on the huge stage of MTS, a giant teddy phones to distribute leaflets and at the site of Golden Line built a true American saloon with the appropriate title (but without the consequences :-), opposite which is held ... rodeo. The attraction of pacification "of the upper part of the" mock-bull attracts many onlookers ... It's all in paviolone Forum. Walk into a more serious second and third pavilion. It seems that Russia is much faster against our expectations of an era of third generation mobile communication (3G). Anyway, the "CSTB on individual stands, it has already come:) Probably one in four exhibition was somehow connected with the new mobile service standards, providing unprecedented data rates (up to 2 megabits per second) and extensive multimedia capabilities. The most interesting in this respect, perhaps, were stands Nec and Panasonic, where it was possible to feel the first 3G-phones. On "nekovskom" stand held to present the opportunities of the new service third-generation FOMA (Freedom of Multimedia Access - "Freedom of access to media), already available to subscribers of the Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo. "Standists" played in the colorful games with polyphonic sound, boasting a huge number of melodies, and showed a piece of a football match, "pumped" directly at the audience from the Internet. Apparently resembled that in a month in Japan will start the World Cup. However, when we tried to find the representatives of Nec, how they managed to take advantage of 3G-services in the absence of 3G in Russia itself, we were told that all the videos and toys have been uploaded yet in Japan, and at the "injection" was staged for greater entertainment .

NEC FOMA - the apotheosis of the multi-media

Related videos twisted and FOMA-phones Panasonic. They also lure colorful toys and fantastic music. Here we saw a modern successor to Benefon Esc! - 3G-phone with Panasonic GPS-module, which gave a picture (with map), just excellent quality. At least, no worse than on the PDA. It is a pity, though, that all the streets were Japanese ...

Streets distant Japanese cities on the screen handset Panasonic

Samsung is also not lagged behind the trends of the time and brought to the exhibition communicators SPH-i300 and SPH-I330. These smartftony already successfully working in some areas of the U.S., where there is a network of third-generation CDMA 2000 1x.Communicators working on the operating system Palm OS version 3.5, have color displays with 256 colors, equipped with a vibrating alert, speakerphone, voice dialing. In the terrible model has polyphonic (16 votes) ringtones, digital camera, a positioning system GPSOne. Hearing topic: about six months ago, when the mobile operator "Moscow Cellular has decided to abandon the antediluvian standard communications NMT 450i and a network of third-generation (those good intentions have so far remained intentions), seemingly as a 3G-standard was chosen namely CDMA 2000 1x. So, maybe in the future, these wonderful communicators are in demand in our country.

Communicator Samsung Third Generation

Not remained aloof from the third generation and Ericsson (now Sony Ericsson). The new smartphone Sony Ericsson P800 (the truth, the whole "2,5 G", on the other hand, what!) We do not hold given (we suspect that in the window lay a plaster cast), but was handed a book, "Welcome to the world of third generation systems." So, with the latest news, Ericsson is also engaged in full swing with new technologies. But we have learned, Thu P800 may be on sale in Russia at the end of this year at a price of around $ 500. Then we will see on the shelves and "gaming phone" with support for Java-applications, Sony Ericsson Z700, which we have already mentioned.

Maybe by the end of the year Sony Ericsson P800 will be available

Many booths was dedicated navigation systems (GPS). Most of us remember two. One Russian company introduced a turnkey set to create a navigation system in car-based handheld computer. Its main functions are: Routing based on various criteria, voice-guided route, working with the resource information database. In the motion system allows to orient the map at the rate of movement of the car that makes its perception. In addition, the user can independently installs objects on the map ("tube", "Repair") to be taken into account when installing the system optimal route. The second novelty - GLONASS / GPS receiver manufactured in Russia. It gives the coordinates in formats WGS 84 and PZ 90 and communicates with other devices via two RS-232 port. Unfortunately, as we did not try stand workers, we have not said how much it would cost such a device, saying only that its price will be an order of magnitude lower than foreign counterparts.

Nokia 7650

On the stand of Nokia, where we normally expect to see a lot of ideological challenges of mobile devices, we were greeted by friendly managers in the apron with clear pockets. Each such pocket was on a cell phone. In addition to well-known, which have become iconic, our attention was attracted by the novelty - the Nokia 7650. Owner, a full-GPRS-smartphone. Nokia 7650 runs on the Symbian operating system and contains many optional, but highly attractive component, such as built-in Bluetooth adapter to work with a personal computer, an infrared port, voice recorder, and much more, including mandatory now for all self-respecting "hybrid" digital camera with a sensor resolution VGA - 640x480 pixels.More details about the new product can be found here.

Left Nokia 9210i

Well, behind glass, we saw a new incarnation of the Nokia 9210 Communicator - Model 9210i. Incidentally, none of the phone at the booth of the Finnish group for the first day of the show did not work. So play around with Nokia 7650, which was pulled from the pocket stand assistants, we have failed. Phone (as in that joke - pour water into the pool when the learn to swim) promised to somehow turn tomorrow, apparently when the exhibition visitors will learn how to call:) And about the differences between brand new Nokia 9210i is available here from the very first hand. Incidentally, none of the phone at the booth of the Finnish group for the first day of the show did not work. So play around with Nokia 7650, which was pulled from the pocket stand assistants, we have failed. Phone (as in that joke - pour water into the pool when the learn to swim) promised to somehow turn tomorrow, apparently when the exhibition visitors will learn how to call:) Unfortunately, none of the smartphones represented at the show we were not able to really " to communicate. " In any case, the first day ... So it had to be satisfied contemplation of mobile devices (or dummy) "behind the glass." Finally a nice fresh news from the show. All the Russian "big cellular trio overnight took up a new technology MMS - Multimedia Messages Service. Two companies - Beeline and Megafon - staged a demonstration of MMS on the first day of the exhibition CSTB. MTS has established a pilot area for two months before, but none of it did not say. All three MMS-network are implemented on the equipment of the corporation Ericsson. On the pricing and presentation services can be found in our news. The authors, translation: