Report From CEATEC JAPAN 2008 |
| (by Mr. Naraki from OKI Semiconductor) |
PHS and related products were displayed on the booth where WILLCOM Core Module Forum was held during September 30 to October 4 on CEATEC JAPAN 2008, at Makuhari Messe, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. |
WCMF Booth Attracted Manay Visitors
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The displayed items are provided by eight companies/universities which are involved in successive development of W-SIM and other new concept. |
Veteran manufacturer of W-SIM, NetIndex demonstrated the stable communication speed of around 800kbps by combining four W-OAM corresponding SIM(16x) during display. |
Another veteran manufacturer, Abit displayed unique items, such as mobile device from the young and the old; and hands-free SOS bottom with embedded life-detecting sensor to correspond to emergencies. |
Both companies are making effort to commercialize the displayed products.
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 |  | 16X Demo by NetIndex | Hand-free SOS Bottom by Abit |
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Miu FACE 084 by Mitachi Industry, which has been on sequential display since last year, was originally designed to correspond to FeliCa. Despite, it is now absolutely possible to introduce more detailed product information than FeliCa to mobile sites. |
Besides, Atmark Techno displayed the completed set of Armadillo 500FX, which was displayed on Freescale Booth as a developing set last year. It can be used potentially on POS terminal such as Karaoke remote controller, or on convenient store information terminal. Customized products with simple combination to panel computer carrying ARM11 is available. The product is to be released in the end of October, although initial lot has been sold out completely already. |
LCD Touch Panel Armadillo-500 FX Carried with ARM11 |
The first W-SIM corresponding handy terminal phone for business purpose, MR2100 was displayed by Miyoshi. This phone realized dual flat-rate on voice and data service with full browser. MR2100 is to be adopted in transportation industry soon and other application of the model is expected to expand in future.
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Handby Terminal -- MR2100 by Miyoshi
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Collectlo, which is an application system of sensor network displayed by Hitachi, can collect information from sensor automatically and provide web service based on collective administration. Collectlo gateway, a sensor net communication that corresponds to various devices, plus devices embedded with W-SIM is the key point of display. |
One WCMF booth, System Consultants displayed Sylph, an anti-noise micro earphone for the first time. It carried W-SIM on E-mimi Kun, which was released last year. Due to its superior portability and simple operation, it is expected to be used in places with high noise such as engineering field and display room.
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--Collectlo Gateway by Hitachi | Micro Earphone Jacket
--Sylph by System Consultants |
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Finally, a series of design was proposed and displayed under the theme of Convenient Information Device for Patients. The displayed devices are selected as the best three from various ideas collected from the university regarding the theme of Medication and PHS. Comparing to mobile phone, PHS is more suitable under medical environment due to its low electric wave. These proposals are interesting in their consideration to exert this merit of PHS. |
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Releaf, a device indicating waiting time
for examination, accounting in hospital | Asi Oto, a device providing information on
injured part for patient under rehabilitation | Medicine O Kun, a device noting patients of
information on medicine
(side effect, food not to co-take with medicine) |
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New proposals regarding the usage of W-SIM are received from various organizations and some of them are considered very helpful in expanding future W-SIM market. |
Besides, Kyocera is making effort in supporting next generation high-speed wireless telecommunication, and XGP base station, which will support WILLCOM CORE service in Japan next year, is displayed on Kyocera booth.
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XGP Base Station by Kyocera |
