Posts filed under CeBIT 2006

[Source: MobileMag]

Mio announced the new Mio A701 Sat Nav mobile phone at CeBIT 2006. The Mio A701 is a smartphone based on Windows Mobile 5.0 that features a SiRF star III GPS receiver in addition to the usual array of mobile phone features. You can call and use the Sat Nav at the same time, and the A701 also comes with MioMap v2 software, which helps you explore cities on foot, and points out local places of interest (restaurants, cinemas, etc.) The Mio A701 also comes with a 2.7-inch TFT touchscreen, Bluetooth 1.2, and a 1.3 megapixel camera, and should retail for around £450.

Sat Nav on a mobile phone – seems so obvious, it makes you wonder why more phones don’t come preloaded with it.

[Source: Mobile Digest]

Parrot have announced a couple of Bluetooth products at CeBIT 2006 that essentially make your mobile phone a remote control (albeit one that actually contains the content you want to control). First up is their Bluetooth Sound System, which essentially comprises two 60 Watt Bluetooth-enabled speakers. Why would you want Bluetooth speakers? For your new music phone, of course. Simply switch your phone on (a nice Sony Ericsson Walkman, perhaps, or Samsung’s i301 8GB music phone), select your tune of choice, and as long as you’re within 10 metres of these beauties, the music will stream from your phone and out through these speakers, in a slightly louder form than you’d get from the phone’s speaker. The only difference between this and your conventional remote is that the tunes are stored in your mobile phone, and you can take your tunes with you.

[Source: Engadget]

So many mobile phones at CeBIT 2006, not enough time to blog about them! So here’s a round up of all the best pictures of the new shiny mobile phone on display at CeBIT to whet your appetite for the details to come.

The good news from Samsung just doesn’t stop! After its 10 megapixel camera phone announcement at CeBIT 2006, Samsung telecom head Lee Ki-tae also disclosed that Samsung will soon supply HSDPA phones to Vodafone in the U.K. and Cingular Wireless in the U.S., with those HSDPA services providing up to 7.2 Mbps services by the end of this year. Better still, when asked about Samsung’s mobile phone strategy, Lee said the company will soon introduce a smart phone equipped with a 20-Gbyte hard-disk drive!

At this rate, CeBIT 2010 will see the first terabyte mobile phone, with camera resolutions measured in the gigapixels! Can’t wait!

[Source: EE Times]

Samsung’s amazing new SCH-B600 10 megapixel camera phone is one of those fantastic Korean phones that normally remains just that: a Korean phone, destined for the super-advanced Korean market only. But according to Lee Ki-tae, the head of Samsung’s telecommunications business, the Samsung SCH-B600 isn’t just a technical masterpiece, it’s also aimed at helping the company gain more market share – and that means Europe.

[Source: Carolina Newspapers]

Pantech chose CeBIT 2006 to show off their new Pantech G-3600V and G-6200 mobile phones. The Pantech G-3600V is a good looking mobile music phone, which plays MP3, WMA, AAC, and has assorted EQs and a 1.3 megapixel camera (which seems embarrassingly tame compared with Samsung’s monster!). Slightly better in the megapixellage front is the new Pantech G-6200, which has a 2.0 megapixel camera, and also comes complete with biometrics, ensuring only the rightful owner can use it.

Pantech also announced at CeBIT 2006 their plans for pushing into Europe, including opening offices in France, UK, and Germany. So yet more of those glorious Korean phones are heading Europe’s way.

[Source: EngadgetMobile]

Samsung have announced a 10 megapixel camera phone on the opening day of CeBIT 2006. Maybe I should say that again – a 10 megapixel camera phone! That’s more megapixellage than most digital SLR cameras. But that’s not all. Rather than just relying on the number of megapixels to wow the crowd, Samsung also provide this beast of a mobile phone with a 3x optical zoom (not digital, like most camera phones: optical, meaning it actually works without pixellating your image), flash and 1/2000th of a second shutter speed.

This may be a way of Samsung laughing in the face of Sony’s recently announced 3.2 megapixel CyberShot camera phone. Whatever, if mobile TV is meant to be the mobile gadget extra of the year, no-one told the camera phone makers!

[Source: Engadget, SlashPhone]

Giga-Byte is to demo some amazing new mobile phone at CeBIT 2006, including the Giga-Byte g-Cam, a mobile phone with 7 megapixels. Also from the company will a mobile phone with GPS and “SOS security functions”, and a mobile phone that bucks the mobile TV trend by featuring analog TV reception.

More details on Giga-Byte’s CeBIT mobile phones after the jump.

[Source: Giga-Byte]

CeBIT 2006 begins tomorrow, and here’s a sneak preview of what to expect from the mobile phone industry. Yes, I know 3GSM was only last month, and CES 2006 the month before that, but this is the time of year when the whole consumer electronics industry shows off its products for the coming year. And it certainly doesn’t mean there’s nothing left for the mobile phone industry to announce.

Read on for a sneak CeBIT 2006 preview after the jump.