CeBIT 2007 - beautiful disaster of European telecommunications

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At this year's CeBIT it was difficult to find European producers of telecommunications devices. Now, the major league form Asian and American corporations and the player that, though also comes from Asia, may be considered as a sole similar innovation power - Korean Samsung. In the field of wireless technologies there were also seen some Israeli firms. At the same time Philips loses its leading innovation position, and mobile solutions from Nokia and Ericsson are getting behind those presented by Samsung and Alcatel.
It is the result of great demand for new technologies on Asian and American markets. Korean producers, having implemented new solutions on their own market, successfully install them in Europe (WiBRO, DMB). American companies take advantage of big and homogeneous national market, and dominate WiMAX business, whereas European governments lobbied by cellular operators are reluctant to giving concessions for their competitors who want to build WiMAX backbones.
As European broadcasters of HDTV are just starting up, promotion of new devices is done in Asia and America (PS3 console, Xbox 360, HD DVD and Blu-ray players). Simply Europeans have too few HDTV sets as yet.
The monopolies that dominated European small national telecommunications markets until recently, omnipresent red tape and necessity of getting numerous concessions, licenses and permissions - plus governments' susceptibility to lobbing, low innovation level  and generally high costs of production - all the factors cause collapse of European telecommunications.

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There were present 6153 exhibitors (in the last year - 6262), from 77 countries. Germans, playing host to the event, had the biggest number of stands. The second representation came from Taiwan - 602, the third from China - 471. Russia, the official partner of this year's trade show in Hanover,
was represented by 170 firms. There were 480 000 visitors.

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Q1Ultra - that's the name of the device which was dubbed the hit of the show. This UMPC (Ultra Mobile Personal Computer) presented by Samsung belongs to the new generation of laptops
or notebooks. Smaller size and weight combined with full range of multimedia form new quality.
The device has been equipped with 60GB HDD (1,8") and 7" screen.
The premium set includes webcamera, still camera, MP3 and MPEG player, Finger Print biometric reader, GPS receiver with navigation package. Communication: WLAN 802.11b/g, Bluetooth, HSDPA/Wibro, LAN. Reception of mobile television in DMB standard.
Dimensions: 228x124x23 mm, weight 690 g.
It will available on the market in May, basic version for ca 1000 EUR.
In  the picture: one of Q1Ultra functions - handwriting recognition.

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Navigation systems are going through boom now. They become common utility used in many areas.  One of halls was completely dedicated for that technology. Q1Ultra has also been equipped with navigation system.

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The largest LCD television, 108", was presented by Sharp, the largest plasma, 103", by Panasonic, one of the leaders of the corporations that promote plasmas as the best technical solution.
Their message is seen in the middle picture.

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NEC emphasized good points of IPTV - "zero piracy IPTV".
Better safe than sorry - Sisvel company, promoting "We protect ideas" was said to perform actions that speak louder than words, confiscating equipment that was not MPEG-licensed.

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Samsung showed "World the best" products and they were really impressing - in the pictures - WiMAX communicator and a mobile supporting T-DMB television sharply starting in Germany.

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Hitachi Maxell presented samples of holographic discs with 300 GB capacity,
and AData - 2 .5" SSD (Solid State Disk) with 128 GB capacity.

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Conference services is a quickly developing branch of multimedia. Mini projector from Samsung will be a favorite gadget of traveling businessmen, scientists etc., whilst conference system based on HD camera, developed by Sony, will satisfy the most picky customers.

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Systems of image analysis seem to provide new horizons. After enlarging the pictures one may notice that emotional states can be easily examined. Will such analyzing systems be a standard equipment in businesses and on the streets of our cities?

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PLC (Power Line Communication) systems gain popularity parallel to development of  IPTV.

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All renown producers of WLAN equipment presented devices compliant with N standard - the picture on the left shows TP-link leaflet. On the right - Planex company demonstrated the device from new series of equipment: CQW-BS100 - complex tool for ISPs - AP with network controller,
detecting and eliminating illegal connections. 

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European designers traditionally awarded the best-looking products of the year. One of the winners was internet camera from Nova Design, Taiwan. Well, we would favor design of this...hanger.

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As usual, body painting was a method of drawing attention, that time to the Memory Corp. stand.

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Europe, it must be said, was represented at CeBIT...

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...but in general the condition of European communications does not look so attractive...

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