HTC booth Akibax 2006

Akibax 2006 - a 3 day Microsft sponsored event in the heart of Akihabra - kicked off today stepping up the excitement around Windows Vista and Office 2007 , scheduled to come out in January, 2007 as well as other Microsoft technologies. Vendors such as Nvidia, HTC, ATI, and Wacom were showing off their technology in Akiba_Square.

The HTC booth was quite interesting, especially as they had a number of overseas models for Japanese consumers to drool over. The interesting thing was that the Softbank logo was in many of them, which might be hinting that they might use it in their next product line. HTC PR did not say which carrier will be using their device, but this might be some sort of a clue on their future lineup in Japan.

IBS Japan's miniClient Solution (Japanese link) was very fascinating. This is a device that uses Cirrus Logic's EP9307 (ARM920T 200Mhz) to send RGB picture data of such as a presentation wirelessly over Wifi and microSD (still under development) from a Windows Mobile device such as the X01HT.

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