Technoradar Blog

This year's CES just happend overseas without my direct attendance. So I had to try to get some direct feedback from some friends and stick to everything, that was made available on the net. Some first postings I already did but now it's time to sum up the results. The photos I got are just a few and are mostly taken with mobile phones. But I like to include some and not to post text only. Special thanks to my friends allowing me to post them here. I found a very good report on PC Magazine  and I deeply recommend to read the whole article, because it really describes the essential movement taking place these days. Tablets The biggest single theme was the flood of tablets being announced. Apple's iPad really inspired the whole device industry to come up with something being it sized from 7 to 12 inch and powered by any processor concept  and operating system available on the market. Android got the bigest chunk, but Windows and QNX try to compete and even HP announ...

First of all, the whole keynote can be streamed on the CES-Website  under the  Boo-Keun Yoon link. The whole presentation was focussing on SmartTV showing the developments Samsung went through the last few years and giving some outlook on actual developments. A good link on the overall content is available at Slashgear  and some nice comments including a short commented set of photos on Business Insider . Lots of partnerships with DIRECTV, Comcast, Warner Cable and Hulu were announced showing the big focus the Korean company has to the US market. Another article based on the press conference can be accessed here . Essential part of the Samsung's strategy seems to be the Adobe cooperation bringing Flash Air to the TVs to fully enable Flash streaming and animations to the big screen. Boo-Keun Yoon also mentioned the full browser experience Flash 10.1 enables. There was no information about the browser technology being used, but it seemed as if a full browser will...

Just saw a very impressive video by Engadget showing the new Motorola Atrix 4G HD multimedia dock and laptop dock hands-on. The shown experience is pretty much like plugging a laptop into your docking station and doing your work. The difference is, that you just plug in your smartphone! All interactions are based on an integrated Firefox browser holding and keeping all your active and opened tabs active even in the the mobile state. so this is a real "surf and go" experience. I am really eager in getting one of those devices into my hands, just to understand how seamless the experience gets with that scenario. If it will just get near to the impressions on this demo, this might have som huge impact on further business and home scenarios shifting away completely from PC-like usage patterns. If you have some time left, just watch the video! Some first technical details can be found on the Motorola website , even if I doubt the device will support 1020p ;-) !

To make a long story short: just jump into the VoD and start at minute 38 and you will get all the „gadget relevant” info you like in 10 minutes. The first two blocks were on X-Box and Windows Phone 7 and did not show too much new things. But if you like, you can for sure go for it at start from the beginning as I did.  The next Windows release will be brought to the ARM platform. First demos show smooth operation of 3 chipsets based on the ARM architecture. There were no announcement on when the new platform will be made available for developers but it will for sure boost up the developments of new non INTEL based mobile devices with more focus on PC-like features. Surface was shown on new improved HW allowing smaller form factors and direct scanning of your finger gestures using infrared, if I got that right. Just watch the demo. Kinect was a big part in the very first presentation ending up in avatar Kinect, a new reatime animated avatar feature that was announced to b...

I could not make it to CES this year. But anyhow I want to keep you all connected and I will try to do my best to reflect on the things going on out there in Vegas. Feel free to comment and give additional input to me, I will try to work out some interesting views.