CeBIT: yeah, we're here
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Mar 14th 2007 2:52PM
posted Mar 14th 2007 2:52PM
posted Mar 14th 2007 2:52PM
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But but.. i don't think the stuff they showed last year is ready for retail yet.
Sweet! Glad that you guys are going to be covering it.
Are they selling the brautwerst on a stick? Any sign of the infamous beer boot?
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I'm here too. Well, I'm in Germany going to Hannover tomorrow. Yo Thomas, got an extra press pass? Yeah some of the stuff they show will never come out, and that phone is way too big to talk on anyway.
I'm willing to bet that she's in T-mobile marketing hoping sites like Engadget will take photos and post them :D
"man smudge"? What kind of show is this?!
Does T-Mobile want to bring back the brick phones? You could kill somebody with that thing.
"Self defense is only an Athena away."
Why is the woman holding a white brick to her ear???
Small phones are so 2006.
Whats up with O2 using the same booth as they did 2 years ago.. i still have a couple of videos of that booth "roof" very cool though, works like a gigant monitor.
daddycool: make sure to check out this link ( http://telefon-treff.de/showthread.php?s=&threadid=273884 ) for info on free cebit passes.
The free passes also illustrate another problem with cebit. it used to be b2b trade show, then to many ordinary folks (and by this i mean the "beutelratten", not the typical engadget reader) came. So they raised the price to 36€ (around $47) and thought everybody was good. Well, that didn't solve the problem.
Now there are millions and millions of stupid german people that spend $50 on a ticket and just collect the bags with information and run around with them, occasionaly "dropping" one if they have to many... they don't read the papers, they just collect. Cebit is always way to full and youre not taken seriously if youre not wearing a tie because they think youre one of them bag-collectors. This year, matters should be wors since everybody can grad free tickets.
Cebit used to a great tradeshow. I loved it. I spent massive amounts of money on going several times including train tickets. Now many major players are missing (several big cellphone companies - starting with nokia), everybody only speaks german and there are ZERO product anouncements (except for Art Lebdev or whatever they're called...).
Cebit has lost it's place: It used to be this big one-in-all CES meets 3GSM meets B2B-IT-Companies and now it just sucks.
There is no way in hell to justify flying from the US to Hannover (one of the worst airports to fly to, by the by), pay the tripple room prices and then bring the optimus 103 real-life pictures. there just isnt.
Chris - Hamburg, Germany.
@chr1s: stimmt, die CeBit ist weit von dem entfernt was sie einmal war, neben CES und meinetwegen der IFA verblasst sie in Sachen Consumer Electronics (aber sie hätte ja niemals diesen Weg gehen muessen!)- und die Sammler & Jaeger wirst du niemals los ;)
@Engadet: chr1s is right, should've stayed at home - nothing new to see at CeBit, really! Anyway, since I got a free pass I'll be around one day or the other ;) Hope to see you guys (any way to recognize you?)
cheers,
geezer
P.S.: that "Fräulein" certainly is a T-Mobile employee - who else would be walking around with such a useless brick!
For a CeBIT survival guide that you use and view on your iPod, make sure to check out www.expodition.com
Cheers!
Rod.
young faulein is redundant.
ps... shes a turk!
"Willkommen" guys! :-)