The Japan booth at ITU Telecom Asia 2004 is showing off a super-cool concept model by Panasonic, and we’re jealous..!!! No doubt they will have it on display here in Tokyo during CEATEC next month as well, and WWJ’s looking forward to taking a test-drive with video. Also on display: a few GSM models, made by Sanyo, which are apparently much more likely to roll-out overseas sometime soon.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., best known for its Panasonic brand products, today unveiled five new models of DIGA DVD recorders. The recorders have 160- to 400-GB hard drives, providing massive recording and storage, high-speed dubbing, and superb home and mobile networking capabilities.
Korean Telecom’s booth at ITU Telecom Asia 2004 is showing off the new HP iPAQ rw6100-series Pocket PC (the “iPAQ SwingPhone”) using the CDMA 1X EV-DO system combined with a wireless LAN 802.11b module. The PDA-style terminal [.jpg image] uses KT’s “NESPOT” service enabling high-speed mobile network connection using the Windows Mobile 2003 OS on the Intel PXA270 520MHZ chip. It boasts 128MB of flash memory over the 64MB of onboard RAM.
UTStarcom, Inc., a global leader in IP access networking and services, today announced that it has signed contracts valued at approximately $41 million with China Telecom Corporation for handsets for its IP-based PAS (Personal Access System) (iPAS) network.
Intel Corp. announced that Fujitsu Limited and UTStarcom support the use of standards-based modular platforms including Intel processors for their service provider customers.
Samsung Electronics have unveiled the SPH-V5400 handset [.jpg image], the first-ever mobile phone with an internal hard disc drive. The company’s latest innovation, which also comes with a mega-pixel camera, is currently being exhibited at ITU Telecom Asia 2004. The phone is equipped with a 1-inch diagonal, 1.5-GB hard disc drive; conventional cellys have a maximum of about 100MB of RAM memory. The breakthrough product will be available for Korean consumers in mid-September.
