The doors open to the CeBit exhibition in Hannover in just 5 days which means its time to finalise the preparations. I have a pass for the event which permits me entrance on Press day although I won’t be arriving until the afternoon. By that time the Engadget team are bound to have dressed up as cleaning ladies and attempted early entry but they must remember that this is Germany we’re talking about here. Rules are rules!
I wouldn’t blame them for trying though. Dressing up is a lot of fun. Oh. I mean…there’s a lot to be seen and reported on. This is where focus comes in handy. UMPCPortal won’t even be batting an eyelid at 150″ LCD TVs or 25 Megapixel cams. I’ve got a ultra mobile PC plan! It goes something like this:
Enter Hall 1 and run to Samsung stand. Scan for small shiny black device with split keyboard and move in with tripod and camera. Analyse, test, fondle, snap, snap snap. Send images to gallery, make a quick Ultra Mobile report. Possible Twitter and ComVu video action. Move on to next target. Repeat until fade.
The reporting kit will be based around the Kohjinsha SA1 Ultra Mobile PC (yes, the one with the difficult keyboard.) and a T-Mobile HSDPA contract although to be honest, I may not use the HSDPA modem as its just too awkward to be connecting and disconnecting it all the time. I’ll either use the T-Mobile hotspots on site (there are 263 access points apparently. This info on access points will be useful if you’re going.) or use 3G access via my mobile phone. Fortunately, these are all included in my Web ‘n’ Walk contract.
Supporting my work at CeBit 2007 will be Dynamism who have agreed to sponsor some of my work there. Hopefully I can find them some nice new gadgets to stock in return. If you haven’t had an ogle at some of the nice mobile and ultra mobile devices on their website, I encourage you to do so. In fact I’ve just seen that the Flybook V5 info has gone live. Gimme gimme gimme!
