Yesterday at MakTsentr held a press conference on the results of a trip to the largest international computer exhibition CeBIT-2002. The assembled journalists were shown new items, imported from Germany, and also features original product development department of the company. In general, the meeting was as they said earlier in a warm and friendly atmosphere. " But first things first.
The official part, consisting of four reports came out extremely busy. First appeared CEO Dmitry Havzhu. He told the public that a trip to CeBIT for the company was very successful. MakTsentr signed a contract with an American company Pretec the right to exclusive distribution of its products in Russia. Was especially marked by the adapter from Pretec PDA that can read both SD / MMC card and MemoryStick, and connects it into an expansion slot CompactFlash.
An interesting solution is on cards and peripherals Compact Flash: 56K modem, LAN, Wireless LAN, GPS-receiver and a memory expansion card standard CF, MMC, SM widely known in Russia.
Were again presented and has already sold in Russia new handhelds from Palm - m130 model, and m515, which caused great interest. Recall that a Palm m130 quite attractive handheld lower price category. It features excellent quality color screen. Hi-end model m515 is designed for confident users of PDAs. Different from their predecessors more memory - 16 MB, and excellent color TFT-displays, about 65,000 colors.
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The room relaxed atmosphere prevailed: exchange views among themselves not only journalists, but also ... Palm'y newcomers, thus demonstrating the work of SD Bluetooth module from Toshiba. This module operates on the bandwagon now the wireless Bluetooth standard is made in the form factor expansion memory card Secure Digital. That's SD support new models of Palm, in an expansion slot which is inserted into the module. It allows you to create a small mobile office, but more on that below. Armed with "blue teeth" our cars m130 and m515 successful "chat" with each other at the experimental distance of 10 m.
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Then one of those present with a cell phone was on the Palm, armed with SD Bluetooth, your e-mail. In principle, having a set of mobile phone that supports GPRS (so far only in the "Beeline"), and handheld, Palm, osnaschennyq such "sinezubym" module can be permanently located in the "online": work with e-mail correspondence by ICQ, famously scribble SMS or surf the Internet. That's a mobile office ...
And for your complete happiness "mobile office" can be completed here is a mini (or folding) keyboard, which is now available in abundance.
The next speaker is the company manager Denis Pichugin, who demonstrated unsatisfactory, unlike Palm, work similar to Bluetooth-communication technologies for handheld computers for Pocket PC. The experiment was conducted with the participation of Cassiopeia EG800 and the new Cassiopeia E-200. First, machines could not "find" each other in a "blue network environment, although lay side by side. Faster on the call sign of Bluetooth-module from Ambicom responded sinezuby Palm, engaged in close e-mail download:)
Finally, Kaskiv found each other and showed the same file sharing - the only thing that probably worked in this hastily tailored to the exhibition of technology. Finally, an ironic speaker noted that the infrared port at first, too, worked as a not so hot, so that the Pocket PC there is every chance.
Completed the formal part of a benefit MakTsentr development department. Its head, Andrey Kuznetsov presented to the general public, almost all the product lines of: the charger for almost all models of PDA sync cords, cables to connect GPS-receivers to the original decision ... Sales of goods from the warehouse. Here refers to an adapter that allows you to connect the same commodity - in this case, a folding keyboard for Palm of the third series - such as PDAs iPAQ.
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With this adapter iPAQ easily connects to the keyboard, as seen in the photo. Only on the handheld itself to install the keyboard driver UniBoard version 2.10 or higher, as developed in MakTsentr. In conclusion, Andrey Kuznetsov, spoke about the new handhelds and smartphones from small producers who have found a huge exhibition halls CeBIT'a. Some of these devices have become a pleasant discovery for our travelers. In addition, representatives of companies with names too have been muted in touch, sharing all possible information, and sometimes even selling their devices at a reasonable price.However, more information can be found in "Hannover impressions", while more detailed information, see the article "All devices SeBIT'a. Part One" and "Passion CeBIT'u. Part Two."
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And for a snack was demonstrated Taiwan's machine on the new operating system Penbex OS. For the first time about the OSes became known in the past CeBIT'e. Taiwanese interesting hack in that it is possible to be able to do it using handheld computers bulk commodities that are available to most people around the world. Chinese really recognized professionals in high technology cheaper:) It may happen that in the near future, affordably priced handheld will work just on this OSes. Meanwhile Penbex OS looks damp. However, it provided support for file system FAT16, support at the system level of work in dBase3, API-function calls, MP3-player and library work with SD-cards, support for color displays (Penbex version 2.x). What good, then - well. Development tools integrated with Visual Studio 6.0, which certainly is convenient for programmers who are accustomed to this IDE. Somewhat less attention paid to the developers Penbex interface of its OS. What's good for China, clearly requires further development to the rest of the world. However, the price of devices Penbex may be much more significant argument in the eyes of the user.
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Further press conference quickly moved into its final phase. Guests for a long time did not want to. In the circles, divided on the interests discussed new items from Palm, Bluetooth-work modules on handheld computers, the prospects Penbex'a, well, of course, pretty women working at the stand of the largest computer exhibition - CeBIT-2002:) The authors, translation:
