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amawanqa
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'Location Free' TV, anyone?
http://www.esato.com/news/article.php/id=1187
http://support.sony-europe.com/locationfree/lfp.asp?l=en
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brix25
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@da wanqsta: I'm posting from my phone...from what I saw earlier you'll still need GPRS/3G to access your tv. Please correct if I'm wrong.
Tonight I'm staying home to watch the first season of The Office on dvd. Wind is blowing like a Mother in this City.
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amawanqa
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@ da brixsta,
Just got back from the show and I'm buggered. Can't say it blew my mind too much; almost a kind of anti-climax of sorts for me...perhaps if I was there purely as an application developer, I might have been frothing at the mouth more.
BTW, here's an extract from that Location Free article:
'You can choose the best way for your P990 to connect to the Base Station depending on where you are, and this can be over the Internet, through a wireless connection if you're in a Wi-Fi hotspot or through your 3G network. The Base Station itself also doubles as a wireless access point, providing the basis of a home wireless network.'
Will be resizing some pics to make them more forum-friendly.
Should be back here within the hour with pics.
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amawanqa
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As promised, pics from the Symbian Smartphone Show.
(excuse the iffy pic quality.)
Excel Arena entrance:
Next up is this 3G Symbian slider handset from LG, called the JOY...oh hell, I hope they change the name before its official market launch next year...
Will run on Symbian 9.2. It has a 2mp camera at the back, expandable memory, etc. Didn't see a flash for the camera though.
Ah, so! One of the highlights for me; a very rare opportunity to try out some WORKING Jap market DoCoMo network cellphones!!
Err..what have I pressed..?
Oops...now what..?
The future's bright with this one:
Banner on the way out: Same time, same place next year.
Will post pics of the exhibits and other related stuff in due course.
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amawanqa
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More pics:
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amawanqa
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...and yet more:
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amawanqa
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The SE and UIQ stand:
The mega-standby time O2 Jet:
Really crap pic taken while fiddling with the W950i:
Soz for the blurry pic:
Samsung smartphone: Oh, by the way, those gold wrappers in the background were freebie 'Organic Dark Chocolate...!'
Yes, it does say 'Amawanqa was here.'
The 7710:
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amawanqa
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How's this for a neat freebie from the show:
Smartphone trump cards! 
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brix25
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@da wanqsta: Nice pics. Were they taken with your phone(s)?
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amawanqa
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@ da brixsta,
Not all of them were taken with the phones; I also used a basic Olympus digital camera for quite a few of the pics.
I see some mouthfuls of poison have contributed to this thread been locked:
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=133038
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goldenface
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@amawanqa
At the NTT stand - was the  SO903i on display at all? What did you think of the rest of the NTT range? Are they all quite big clamshells?
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brix25
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@goldenface: Just judging from the pictures that da wanqsta posted those clamshells look massive...I've also noticed that they seem to love the "blingin" look in the Far East.
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amawanqa
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We have a scouser in our midst..! LOL, hi goldenface, and welcome. Nice of you to drop in here.
Unfortunately the NTT SO903i was nowhere to be seen  ; it would've been quite easy to spot with its distinctive outer keypad, but no luck.
I might go back to the show again this afternoon in case the NTT boys have hauled out something lurking in their corporate pockets that wasn't bandied about yesterday, but I'm not gonna hold my breath. Brix was right about the size of them though; they are quite long handsets,easily the length of a larger candybar form phone, and that's with the flip closed too. They are thinner than any of the usual SE flip phone offerings though, but not anywhere near svelte Samsung Ultra-Edition proportions.
EDIT: The range of options in each menu and sub-menu was quite impressive on these handsets, and in true Nippon-gadget fashion, a lot of animations and flashing, changing lights within these sub-menus as well. They seemed easy to navigate (even though I never had a cooking clue what the writing said), but they were rather 'busy' with all the peripheral things on display in these menus.
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francoislr
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@ wanqa, thanx for all the pics...looks pretty cool, but it seemed to be a more technical show: i actually like those type of shows a lot, just means less yuppies there.
So I have been cut, will hopefully get that sorted out today...Quite a hard life without my phone working....
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amawanqa
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@ Francois,
Yup, all the programming boffins were in the vast majority there, as this is who the show targets in particular, and as such my rather limited knowledge of programming made much of the show technically 'over my head'; I was just marvelling at the finished articles as such. 
I'm still in two minds whether to go back there later this afternoon.
EDIT: I was wondering what you meant with you got 'cut', (don't you want kids?! LOL, jokes...) until you mentioned being without your phone line.
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