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LAS VEGAS -- Following the home-networking emphasis Microsoft's BillGates put on his opening keynote here, Daeje Chin, president and chiefexecutive officer of Samsung Electronics' Digital Media Business unit,announced two upcoming products for the networked home in his keynote at theConsumer Electronics Show.
Chin gave the audience a glimpse of the NEXiO, which he termed "a PDAphone converging with a PC," and of a media center for the home.
The NEXiO device, which looks like a handheld PC crossed with a tabletPC, features a 5-inch VGA (800-by-480 pixel) display, a built-in Code DivisionMultiple Access (CDMA) 2000 module for high-speed wireless voice and dataaccess, and a USB port, according to information from Samsung.
The NEXiO, which runs Microsoft Windows CE 3.0 on Intel's 206 MHzStrongARM processor, features 64MB of Synchronous Dynamic RAM and 32MB of ROM.The NEXiO also includes a handful of applications, among them Pocket Word, aspreadsheet program, and a PowerPoint Viewer. It also comes with voicerecording and MP3 playback software.
Additional options include a camera, Global Positioning System (GPS),and wireless LAN modules. The NEXiO will be available "in a few months," Chinsaid.
Chin also demonstrated the Samsung Home Media Center, a box for theliving room. Samsung expects the Home Media Center to be available within 12months, Chin said.
It will contain media files, including digital photos, MP3 audio files,and video, Chin said. The Media Center is designed to also allow users to surfthe Internet from the living room and send information to networked displaysthroughout the home. The device will be able to communicate with analogtelevision sets equipped with an additional digital-to-analog converter, hesaid.
The Home Media Center will be based on FreeStyle, a technology that was announced by Microsoft's Gates Monday night. The FreeStyle software turns the Windows XPinterface into a control panel format that can be operated using a remotecontrol-like gadget. Various icons represent different devices the user cancontrol through the FreeStyle interface.
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