Well yesterday saw the 2nd day of CES, even though CES doesn’t really start until today when the show itself opens it’s doors.
Yesterday was again a hectic day of press conferences and events (it’s a hard life)!
I met up with Dave McCabe from the Homeserver Show podcast, Terry Walsh from We Got Served, Ian Dixon and Garry Whittaker from The Digital Lifestyle Show podcast and we spent a lot of time going to see different things, and trying desperately to get a working wireless connection (you wouldn’t think it was the worlds largest consumer electronics show, would you)?
A brief round up follows, and again I will post some of the things in much more detail when time permits later in the week 🙂
Toshiba Europe
The morning started with us all heading over to the Toshiba Europe press event, which primarily dealt with some very cool new televisions, including one that frankly can only be described as out of this world, and that goes for the price tag as well.
They also announced the new NB300 and NB305 netbooks, which have a battery life of around 11 hours and look great (I’m currently using an NB200 – so if anyone from Toshiba is reading this, any chance of an upgrade) 🙂
Lenovo
Lenovo were talking a lot about the new smartphone, the LePhone, and also about some of their other new products, including a smartbook that is really thin and runs all day! More on that later in the week.
They also had an entertainment section that had a very small net top PC (with a cool hand held keyboard) and also the Lenovo Windows Home Server (it was very nice to see it there as Windows Home Server news has been very thin on the ground – although its not news as its been out for a while, but you know what I mean!)
The Keynote
I didn’t attend the live keynote in the end, I watched the live webcast instead as I had some other meetings just before it (including the Lenovo press conference).
There was no Windows Home Server news, but there were a few Media Center announcements – why not watch the webcast for yourself by clicking here.
The Digital Experience Show
In the evening there was a 4 hour event called the Digital Experience Show, also known as Pepcom. It was a really great event with a large number of exhibitors talking about their products, doing demos and everyone having a good time (along with loads of food and drink). Completely irrelevant to this post, but the theme was safari and there were loads of stuffed animals, jeeps, and lovely ladies in full body makeup as lions and other animals (and no, before you ask, I am not posting any pictures of them, I thought it best not to take pictures!) 🙂
I will post more later on some of the cool things I saw, and believe me there was a lot to see, including more things from D-Link, Toshiba, HP and many others.
