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Title: SHG1000 Media Exposure


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SH-G1000 Media Exposure

• March 2003

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CES 2003 Bill Gates Keynote Speech
Now, these devices up to this point have really
all been designed for the GSM network. We're
incredibly excited to announce this week that
there is new Smartphone and Pocket PC software
for the CDMA network. Now this opens up a huge
new market over 120 million subscribers use CDMA
today, so this opens up a huge new network.
HITACHI SH-G1000
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CNET Best of CES 2003
http//electronics.cnet.com/electronics/0-4133160-
8-20791415-1.html?tagld
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InfoWorld January 6, 2003
Hitachi will use the Pocket PC Phone Edition
Software in its Multimedia Communicator
NC1(G1000), which will be the first Pocket PC
device to include a built-in Keyboard. It will
also have a mini-camera that lets users snap
pictures and e-mail them to friends
http//www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/03/01/06/
030106hnmscdma.xml?sIDGNS
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PC World January 6, 2003
http//www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,108404,0
0.asp
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RCR Wireless News January 6, 2003
http//rcrnews.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?newsId6476
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Wireless Is Star Again at CES  0200 AM Jan.
08, 2003 PT Once again, it's all about wireless
at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. Last
year's CES, one of the world's oldest and largest
trade shows, witnessed the birth of a pocket PC
that made phone calls and took pictures, along
with a digital camera that operated on a
wireless local area network. Wireless technology
was also the focus of headliner Bill Gates'
keynote address. This year, manufacturers have a
new round of wireless products to unveil.
Hitachi will release a combination pocket PC and
cell phone that can send picture messages as
well as make phone calls

http//www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,57103,00
.html
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http//pocketpc.pdablast.com/articles/2003/1/20031
6-Hitachi-Annouces-Multimedia-Communicator.html
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January 7, 2003
http//www.mobilemag.com/content/100/333/C1365/
Hitachi, a leading global electronics company,
today unveiled the Hitachi Multimedia
Communicator Pocket PC, the company first Windows
Powered device and the first Pocket PC to feature
an integrated camera, keyboard, and phone feature
all in one mobile device. The Multimedia
Communicator combines the comprehensive
functionalities of a Pocket PC experience, with
the high-speed enhanced Sprint Nationwide PCS
Network to deliver the ability to take pictures,
provide comfortable text input for emails with a
built-in keyboard, place and receive phone calls,
and browse the web. Based on the new Microsoft
Pocket PC Phone Edition software for CDMA
networks, the Multimedia Communicator is expected
to be available in the first half of 2003 only
from Sprint. "The unique combination of
consumer capabilities in the Hitachi Multimedia
Communicator based on Pocket PC represents the
culmination of Hitachi's advanced research and
development efforts and Microsoft powerful Pocket
PC Phone Edition software," said Shigeru
Matsuoka, general manager of Mobile Information
Communication Appliance Division, Hitachi, Ltd.
Ubiquitous Platforms Systems Group. "We're
thrilled to be working with Microsoft and Sprint
in this product category and believe customers
will find this product highly functional and an
appropriate solution to today need for total
portability and convenience. The introduction of
Hitachi's first ever Multimedia Communicator
based on Pocket PC complements our global focus
on providing our customers with innovative
products for which Hitachi is known." "Hitachi
has taken a great software platform and expanded
it with compelling consumer features such as the
camera and built-in keyboard," said Juha
Christensen, corporate vice president of the
Mobile Devices Division at Microsoft. "We are
delighted to welcome Hitachi as a Pocket PC
partner." "The new Hitachi Pocket PC device is
planned to not only deliver Sprint customers
high-speed, wireless access to corporate data and
the Internet, but provide the necessary built-in
tools and device features such as a keyboard and
camera to quickly and easily take action. A smart
device, like the Hitachi Pocket PC device, is
just one tool in the suite of solutions offered
through the PCS Clear Wireless Workplace that
helps ensure mobile professionals that use Sprint
are more productive and given an advantage in the
ever-increasingly competitive world of business,"
said John Garcia, senior vice president of sales
and distribution for the PCS division of Sprint.
Hitachi is working toward not only retail but
also enterprise availability of the Hitachi
Multimedia Communicator in the United States. The
Multimedia Communicator is planned to offer
Microsoft Pocket PC Phone Edition software
including Pocket Outlook (contacts, calendar,
in-box), pocket versions of Microsoft Word and
Excel, Pocket Internet Explorer browser, the
Windows Media Player, phone dialer and more such
as a Xscale 400MHz processor, full-color TFT
screen, integrated camera, QWERTY keyboard and is
designed with a replaceable battery.