Macworld 'crush' CES 2007

Ironically, the "Star" of this year's CES Consumer Electronics Show is a company that doesn't bother to be there: Apple Inc.

More than 140,000 people flocked to Las Vegas to attend the biggest electronics show of the year, which lasted nearly a week. As usual, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is a "drummer" with a concise speech about "home server".

Thousands of products were unveiled at CES, while thousands of technology companies built theaters, screens, and flower lights to attract visitors during the past 1 week.

Perhaps as every year, CES is always the most spectacular event, most concerned by the media, being paid the most attention. From another angle, it is also considered the launching ceremony of the world consumer electronics industry in the new year.

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs launched the iPhone on Macworld stage.Source: CNET

A few hundred miles northwest, in San Francisco, CEO Steve Jobs of Apple punctured the stage, announcing the previous iPhone 4,000 reporters, analysts and Apple employees attending. Annual Macworld exhibition.

Jobs slowly pulled the iPhone out of his pocket, spending a lot of time talking about this blockbuster product. In the end? The entire audience stood up, clapping in front of this impressive debut.

" Apple just released two new products, but I think they have resonated, impressed and paid more attention than thousands of new products launched at CES, " said Van Baker.

And the truth is that. No year yet that electronic products on display at CES 2007 are submerged like this year, because the spotlight has accrued both for iPhone and iTV. Thinner than Motorola's Razr phone, the iPhone is actually an iPod music player that calls the phone and surfs the Internet. At 12 mm thick, the phone has a " monumental " 3.5-inch touch screen, virtual keyboard and only a few keystrokes.

The iPhone's retail price when it officially ships next June will be $ 499 (4GB of memory) or $ 599 (8GB of memory).

" The best product released in the past week, no doubt, is the Apple iPhone, " Cowen expert Arnie Berman said. Even though LG's Blu-ray / HD-DVD player and a series of Qualcomm handsets are also very attractive.

Trong Cam