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Phones are hits at the CeBIT

HANNOVER, Germany ―One hundred seventy domestic information technology companies, including Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Co., showed off cell phone handsets and monitors at an international trade show for information technology, telecommunication, software and service now under way here. All told, 6,400 companies from 64 nations participated in CeBIT 2004, which continues until Wednesday. About 600,000 industry officials and other spectators are expected to visit the annual technology fair. Many mobile phone producers, including Nokia Oyj, Samsung and LG, put third-generation mobile handsets on display. Those cell services are expected to be offered in Europe soon. A number of information technology products used the Bluetooth wireless technology that enables short-range wireless connections among desktop and notebook computers, personal digital assistants, mobile phones, camera phones, printers, digital cameras, headsets and keyboards. Samsung Electronics’ exhibition hall, which occupies 3,000 square meters (32,290 square feet), features cell phones using the two existing mobile telecom standards, the Global System for Mobile Communication and Code Division Multiple Access. Samsung also displayed the world’s largest plasma display panel, 80 inches on the diagonal, and camera-equipped cell phones capable of recording moving images. LG Electronics, whose showroom was slightly smaller, launched a Web site that offers cell phone-related services in five languages. It also promoted its plasma display panel television sets and home network equipment. “LG Electronics plans to provide third-generation cell phones using the Wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology to Orange,” Park Mun-hwa, a president of LG Electronics, said during the exhibition. Orange is a mobile telecommunications unit of France Telecom. Pantech & Curitel Communications Inc. had 30 cell phone models on display, including one that recognizes fingerprints. Among most popular products were Siemens AG’s cell phone that allows a user to write messages with a pen on the pressure-sensitive screen, and Nokia’s device that transmits video from a mobile phone to a television screen. The Electronic Industries Association of Korea has a booth for smaller domestic companies, including Haansoft Inc., KTC Telecom and Netpia.com. by Jun Hyung-chul
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