Giving CES the 3rd Degree

Friday, January 16. 2009

Giving CES the 3rd Degree

Paul Carr has a very funny article summarising the CES show - in essence he partied for 3 days and spent an hour asking actual show attendees what was hot during the main 2nd night afterparty. The summary is here:

With a single lap of the crowded club, I'd spoken to half a dozen of the attendees and had scribbled a list in my notebook under the heading "everything you need to know about CES 09". Here, verbatim, is the list...

• The conference feels pretty busy, but only because most stands were booked a year ago. In reality, most companies have only sent key staff to Vegas rather than entire teams. Everyone worried about their jobs.

• Wireless electricity based on beaming heat across the room is super cool (no pun intended) but nowhere near ready to be unleashed on the public.

• Microsoft really screwed up the Windows 7 beta launch.

• If you like cool televisions, CES will make you shit yourself.

• Palm Pre

• PALM PRE

• PALM PRE!!!

Ah yes, the Palm Pre Smartphone. The conference highlight that everyone – absolutely everyone – wanted to talk about. Apart from being a beautiful thing to behold, combining the multimedia possibilities of the iPhone with the not-having-a-fucking-annoying-virtual-keyboardiness of the BlackBerry, it also boasts the WebOS operating system. In short, WebOS makes developing applications for the device as easy as building a website. Between the aesthetics of the device and the openness of the platform, even iPhone owners I spoke to were considering trading up.

Broadstuff's Service Guarantee - copying the blog of someone who didn't go to CES so you don't have to.

Posted by Alan Patrick in Laptops, Netbooks & Handsets at 22:19 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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