basant_jp 0 Report post Posted October 15, 2006 I visited the Exhibition yesterday. Lots of good stuff but was not as good as the Mobile Expo last year. Okay, I am writing about some of the cool stuff I noticed at the Exhibition. Major exhibitors include Nokia, LG, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, T9, Haier, UTStarcom, Imate, ZTE, Yulong, Airtel and Reliance. Right at the entrance, I came across huge pavilions of Nokia and LG, and I moved in to LG pavilion first. LG guys have really displayed their handsets well, working handsets were available to try your hands on, though there were no clear demarcation of handsets 'to be made available in India'. They had displayed some pretty neat CDMA handsets. Chocalate series handsets were an attraction. Then I went to the Nokia pavilion. They have highlighted N series handsets only in this exhibition. Among all, N95 was the one I truly liked, not that others were not good, just because I had not N95 before. Anyway, there were hardly any others models, Nokia 6265 in black was the only CDMA phone displayed there. Overall, nothing that you have not seen before. Motorola pavilion is worth mentioning. Expecially because in the last year's Mobile Expo, Motorola's were the worst pavilion with only V3 in display. This time, it was one of the best pavilion and spread hugely in the center most part. They had V3i, L6, L7, PEBL, MotoFlip, V3i D&G, Moto Krazer and some others on display. Samsung pavilion was okay kind of, mostly the new thin series handsets were in display. Only thing is that you don't find them very different, they all look like same... Apart from these handsets, just like the past, they have also displayed the 5 MP camera phone with optical zoom, 8 MP and 10 MP camera phones. Sony Ericsson pavilion displayed P990i and a few more Wlakman series phones. No futuristic models were displayed, all models were the ones currently available here. It was the most boring and hopeless pavilion. My opinion on Some of the interesting models and things in this exhibition 1. 2 handsets I liked the most - LG LX550 - Chocalate series handset, available for CDMA (Korea) and WCDMA/GSM (Europe) networks. This phone has very good looks, had very interesting, unique and super fast UI, excellant color display and dual camer (2 mega pixel main camera and VGA front camera, though the front camera is hardly visible). Picture and video quality seemed excellent on the handset. Check out the pic- Nokia N95 - It needs no description. 5.2 MP camera with DVD quality video recording. Double slider, slides up and down, both. Dedicated buttons for music playback, which can be accessed by sliding down. Looks a bit bulky but it is to be expected with the big display and 5 MP camera. 2. Most innovative product - Motorola is the best with innovations. 'Bluetooth Wireless Gateway' was the product which I liked a lot. It is a small device which can route your music to any sound system through Bluetooth (if your phone/laptop/PC support stereo bluetooth). Imagine, listening to all your music saved in the phone on a high-fi system, and that too without wires. One can also connect a tv or music system to this device and can then listen to them on the Bluetooth stereo headset... I was amazed at how beautifully it worked! I am gonna buy it for sure. It is priced at 3990/- and if you buy it at the exhibition, you get 15% discount. Actually, this discount is valid on anything that you buy at exhibition. The other amazing product that I saw was a Bluetooth Jacket...yes, a bluetooth enabled jacket! Again, by Motorola. It is a fantastic looking jacket with in-built speakers on the collars through which you can listen to music from your cell-phone. It has a dedicated control panel on the left hand arm through which all the features of the jacket can be accessed. Among others, It also has an Ipod connector built-in, so that you can connect your Ipod to listen to it through the in-built spekers. I put on the jacket and it felt like some James bond kind of stuff...Simply awesome. I would have bought it then and there itself, but sadly, it is not available in India yet. I have a few pics of the jacket, but not now. Will post them as soon as I have them. Check out some other pics from the exhibition - Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
supernova 47 Report post Posted October 15, 2006 hi .. do u know when wud it be over . any website ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arun 795 Report post Posted October 15, 2006 Thanks for review Basant. @supernova: It is a 4 day event and ends on 16th October 2006 (Monday). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
supernova 47 Report post Posted October 15, 2006 @supernova: It is a 4 day event and ends on 16th October 2006 (Monday). oh missed the opportunity . could have gone earlier today Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Honest 836 Report post Posted October 16, 2006 @supernova Wait till next year. As this exhibition comes every year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smartbuddy_82 0 Report post Posted October 18, 2006 why dont they have such exhibitions in mumbai... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Honest 836 Report post Posted October 18, 2006 why dont they have such exhibitions in mumbai... @imranais Many exhibitions held in Mumbai so far. Sometimes they have exhibition at Bandra-Kurla Complex and sometimes at World Trade Centre. Regards. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
@ksh@T 20 Report post Posted October 19, 2006 well that was indeed a good review of the exhibition........ but there was nothing as mentioned abt the reliance stall ,what those poor chaps had displayed the worst LG range of phones..... that i prefer not even to touch! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
basant_jp 0 Report post Posted October 19, 2006 Hmm....Reliance pavilion was not too bad. Though there was nothing impressive for a Reliance Mobile users. They had mostly focussed on the value added services like Reliance World and My Tunes...and the talk plans, ofcourse. A few handsets were also in display.. Overall, nothing impressive as there was nothing new..Atleast not for a Rimwebian Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arun 795 Report post Posted October 22, 2006 Watch glimpses of Mobile Asia 2006 on NDTV Profit Channel - Gadget Guru show. Next re-run is at 3 PM today. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
