Already satisfied with your 3G or HSDPA (3.5G) cell phone? Well, wait until you get your hand on WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access). This enhanced technology offers data access rate wayyyyy faster than HSDPA. The good news, you won’t have to wait very long until such WiMAX-ready handset exist, as KDDI Japan already developed one. Recently showcased during CEATEC 2007, the phone is called “AU” and it’s slated to be the first WiMAX-ready phone in the world. Or at least in Japan.

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HTC showcased the next-generation of its popular Touch phone, HTC HT1100 (a.k.a HTC Touch II) during recent CEATEC 2007 event. Still no details on pricing and availability of this handset though, but at least there are some more live pics below. Enjoy!

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Sharp once again shows off its prototype of next-generation LCD TV, “Pop Up“. This time during CEATEC 2007 event. As mentioned before, the television is hidden inside a cabinet. It’ll automatically pop-up if you turn it on. Vice versa, the TV will go inside the cabinet once it turned off. Weighs 25kg, the slim TV (at just 20~29mm thickness) itself features a contrast ratio of 100,000:1, a 150% of NTSC color gamut, and an annual power consumption of 140kWh. Still no words on pricing and availability though.

One more pic after the jump.

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Toshiba showcased “Gigabeat V401″ portable media player during CEATEC 2007 event. This PMP device features a 4-inch display, built-in 1-Seg TV tuner for watching your favourite TV programme everywhere, music and movie player (WAV, WMA, WMA 9 Lossless, MP3, WMV, JPEG), build-in games, and karaoke software. It comes with 40GB of HDD, enough for storing hundreds, even thousand, of media contents. Moreover, a built-in stereo speaker and compact stand are included as well.

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Fujitsu displayed the FVM-Biblo Loox P70T/V at the recent CEATEC 2006 event. It’s a 8.9-inch tablet PC with touch screen display and a screen resolution of 1280×768. Weighs less than 1kg, the convertible laptop is powered by an Intel Core Solo U1400 (1.2GHz) processor, an Intel 945 chipset, a 512MB of DDR2 RAM, and a 30GB of HDD. No words on pricing and availibility though.

More pics after the jump.

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As mentioned couple days ago, Sony presented two new Blu-Ray media recorders at the CEATEC 2006 exhibition. Here’s more detail about one of the disc recorder, the BDZ-V9 model. It will be released in December and will be available in two built-in hard drive’s capacity variants, 500GB and 250GB. The first one comes with a price tag of $2,510 (300,000 Yen) and the latter is retailed for $2,090 (250,000 Yen). Now you know how much you have to save on your pocket if you want to buy the Blu-Ray recorder.

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Toshiba is probably the only company who keeps trying to bring the HD-DVD technology to the world. At least at the recent CEATEC 2006 event, you can only found HD-DVD-related products at Toshiba’s booth. One of them is the RD-A1 HD-DVD media recorder. Dubbed as Vardia, this world’s first HD-DVD recorder has the ability to record HDTV program directly onto HD-DVD disc. Both single-layer and dual-layer HD-DVD-R discs are supported, as well as backward compatibility for DVD-RAM/R/RW media discs. Other features include an integrated 1TB of HDD, H.264 and VC-1 video encoding, DLNA guideliness compliance, HDMI, iLink, 5.1-channel analog audio, coaxial digital, and optical digital output interfaces, along with S-image, three composite and analog audio, D1, and DV input terminals. Measures 457 x 408 x 159 mm and weighs 15.2kg, this HD-DVD recorder is already available on the market wayback since July 14th.

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Sony not just displayed its Blu-Ray players at CEATEC 2006 event, but also a nice LCD PC with built-in Blu-Ray player which is, I believe, the world’s first. Under the VAIO Type L range, the slim and stylish VGC-LA91S features a 19-inch wide high-density LCD monitor with 1680×1050 WSXGA+ resolution, a slot-loading Blu-Ray disc drive, wireless keyboard and mouse, and remote control. Dubbed as “Board PC”, it is made of aluminium with transparent frame design and powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and powerful graphics engine (no detail about the brand and model name).

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Other than HDR-HC3, Sony also shown off its new high-definition camcorder, the HDR-FX7 1080i HDV camcorder at CEATEC 2006 exhibition. Incorporated three-chip ClearVID CMOS Sensor technology, it can record and playback both 1080i HDV and standard definition DV video on standard miniDV tapes. Later, the recorded HDV video can be edited with a provided non-linear editing software. Furthermore, the digital camcorder is packed with several interesting features, such as slow motion recording and dual mode recording. By utilizing its three sensor, HDR-FX7 can capture a six-second burst of video and play it back in 24 seconds as slow motion video. As for the dual record function, it lets users to capture 1.2 megapixel still images and shoot video simultaneously, with the press of a button. Wow.

According to the company, HDR-FX7 camcorder will start shipping later this month with a price tag of around $3,500.

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And now it’s time to take a look at Sony’s booth at CEATEC Japan 2006 exhibition. Two of the most remarkable products on its display was the HDR-HC3 and HDR-FX7 camcorders. Let’s check out the HC3 recorder first. Using a 1/3″ CMOS sensor, it features a 2,103,000 gross pixels, a 1,434,000 effective pixels in 16:9 video mode, and 1,076,000 effective pixels in 4:3 video mode.

More pics after the jump.

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