What a big IT show due to taking two halls from Hall 5 to 6 at Singapore Expo! There are tons of tablets, desktop and laptop computers to check out ranging from Windows 8 related computers and tablets and Android tablets from the familiar brands like Acer, Asus, Samsung, HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc. The other same brands are back such as Rangers, Microsoft, Apple, Logitech, etc. in which they are displaying their accessories again. Also, there are other Android devices by other brands I don’t even know of such as those devices made in America or some Chinese-speaking countries. Compared to my Android tablet device which is Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, there are differences in the Android interface depending on the Android device.
Other big things included the ISPs, TVs, GPSes, Cameras and so on. I also went to the ViewQwest booth to make more talks about it and made comparison between ViewQwest and the ISPs we know of now. For ViewQwest, they have both the fiber broadband, Freedom VPN and the Android TV device to be controlled with the mouse and keyboard similar to other Android TV devices I had already seen. Before I made a discovery with ViewQwest, it seems that the OpenNet fiber device is somewhat an add-on to your existing home network and I don’t even know how it works except that I was told that you can use some VPN technology with OpenNet. I’m still having the ADSL Broadband connection which is by far not the fastest compared to Fiber technology. Unlike Fiber-Optic connection, the ADSL Broadband connection has its own lifespan or something whose performance decreases over time. There were even projectors and pianos by Canon and the projectors were damn recent. Cool thing about them was that they had the Digital Zoom effect, the HDMI port and the remote control. Hopefully, the companies and schools should use the projectors with new features like that in the future as there has been bitching about not able to see the screen from far distance due to using VGA or something. One unnecessary thing was the inclusion of the USB drive port for presentation and other stuffs. You can store your presentation to your USB flash drive to be hooked up to the projector but the presentation format is not what you know of. You’ll need the driver software CD for installation to do this if you want to present by USB alone. What a downside of those projectors for me but they are damn great overall.
Lastly, there was another company that offers the certified courses to study. This is not the first time I was in the IT show where I discovered the previous company that offers those courses. The downside is that they may be expensive as hell but I don’t think I will be ready for those courses anytime soon. Also, there were other accessories like the new earpieces, headphones, speakers, external hard drives, Chromebooks, NAS and D-Link booth. Chromebooks are looking like the rare thing but from what I saw of the interface of Google Chrome OS, it looked even better than what I saw back then when the OS was still in development. After this IT show, you can look for those Chromebooks at Courts retail stores.
