Windows Phone Thoughts: Checking Out This Fall's Gadgets: Pepcom's Holiday Spectacular Press Event

Figure 29: Sony Ericsson's new camera phone, the S700i

The S700i, which is slated to hit the US in the fourth quarter, is a unique camera phone with supposedly a high-quality 1.3MP sensor and a form factor to match. To use it as a camera, you use the screen as a viewfinder, as the camera itself is on the other side. You hold it sideways like a camera and hit a button on the side of the unit to snap pics.


Figure 30: View of the S700i's rear

We didn't have time to do any picture tests, but the form factor is certainly unique and quite compelling.


Figure 31: The S700i's keypad, exposed

There is a keypad that can be accessed by swiveling the top around.


Figure 32: Sony's T610 replacement, the T637

The T637 is the popular North American equivalent of the T630. It has an improved display over the T610 and a slightly more comfortable form factor.


Figure 33: Side/rear view of the T637

That said, the T637's camera isn't anything to write home about. Still, it's a nice little device.


Figure 34: Sandisk 2GB and 4GB CF cards

Sandisk has a nice collection of all their latest cards; most notably, the 2GB and 4GB CF cards were on display. Sandisk (as Suhit mentioned on DMT earlier) claims that this is a high speed card with transfer speed of about 10MBps and they will be retailing for around $220 and $500 respectively. When asked what the new models will be, the Sandisk representatives hinted at larger sized (and high speed) SD cards.


Figure 35: The VoQ smartphone

Sierra Wireless made waves with their announcement of the VoQ Smartphone 2003 device, and they had it on display. The unit is quite comfortable in the hand, albeit a bit tall. Of course, the one compelling feature is its flip-out thumbboard.


Figure 36: The VoQ with its thumbboard exposed

The thumbboard seemed pretty useable. When you flip out the keyboard, it launches a "rapid-lookup" program capable of searching any piece of data on the Smartphone, making access rapid. Unfortunately, this GSM device is not available from any carrier; it must be purchased through third-parties in the channel.


Figure 37: Viewsonic wide-screen LCD - N2700W

The Viewsonic N2700W, the 27" LCD TV/monitor was on display connected to a wireless receiver (note the little box to the bottom right of the TV).


Figure 38: Viewsonic Wireless Media Transmitter W/ Hard Drive

So the Wireless transmitter has a built in drive which had several MPEG 2 movies on the drive. A user is able to scan the network using the receiver (display of controls on the TV) and scan for all the transmitters on the network. Once found, through a proprietary interface (which looks an awful lot like Windows Explorer ;-)), a user can browse through the files on the hard drive and then view the appropriate media on the TV. We had the pleasure of seeing a couple of minutes of Legally Blonde. :-P


Figure 39: Jabra's new Bluetooth headset

Jabra recently announced a new BT headset that's noticeably more compact than their previous offerings. This unit should be coming in the next few months.


Figure 40: Rear view of Jabra's new BT headset

Another angle for the upcoming Jabra headset. Suhit also asked Jabra if they were investigating BT earbuds and we seemed to get the impression that they are working on something like it. It would be very cool to have stereo earbuds that communicate with a personal music player over Bluetooth.