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All Eyes, Ears on Vegas Wireless Show03/28/08 - 07:48 AM EDT
ATT GOOG (The Telecom Connection PICK) GRMN INTC MOT S VZ
Gary Krakow
Next week we'll be in Sin City, where it's this country's turn to show off what could be the next generation of cell phones and wireless mobile devices.
Beginning Tuesday, journalists, experts and other industry wags from all around the world will be descending upon the Las Vegas Convention Center for the CTIA Wireless 2008 spring show to see what will be new in the next few months.
The CTIA organization calls the show "the premier global event representing the $500 billion global wireless industry." The people who put on the Global World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, back in February might have something to say about that claim.
On the other hand, the European show is just for GSM-based phone technologies. It's the dominant wireless force worldwide (and here in this country via AT&T(ATT - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) and T-Mobile(DT - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr)) but only a small part of the U.S. cellular industry. Verizon and Sprint use entirely different technology to deliver voice and data services.
So, however you measure the success of these types of shows, this one is a biggie: CTIA is expecting more than 40,000 attendees and 1,200 exhibitors -- and hopefully a slew of great things to tell you about.
What we expect:
More News About the Gphone
Gphone devices are based on the Android operating platform -- and backed by a consortium of knowledgeable companies -- led by Google(GOOG - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr), Intel(INTC - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) and other well-known corporations. In Barcelona we got a few peeks and hints at what to expect from Android/Gphones -- and I'm expecting there will be some more hints this time around.
Android is meant to more than an "iPhone killer" -- it could be the force behind an entire family of wireless products, from smartphones and PDAs to GPS devices, tablets and even laptops -- and it could produce an earthquake-like chain of reactions in many interconnected industries.
Other New Designs
In Barcelona, we got to see the first cell phones to run a wireless, cellular-based Skype client. I expect we'll be hearing and seeing a lot more about those items.
Also, brace yourself for more news about the coming Garmin(GRMN - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) nuvifone. We got to see a few of them last month, but they were mostly under glass -- literally. We weren't really allowed to play with them or even touch them. I expect that, six weeks later, we might get a chance to actually handle a sample.
There should also be a bunch of new handsets from the big wireless providers Verizon(VZ - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr), Sprint(S - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr), AT&T and T-Mobile.
And I'm sure we'll be able to find some interesting new designs to tell you about, courtesy of some of the smaller handset makers.
We'll be looking in all the nooks and crannies.
Recent Headliners
And we'll be checking out some of the companies that have been in the news lately -- but for all the wrong reasons. I plan to check out offerings from Sprint and Motorola(MOT - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr), among others, to see what they're planning for the near future.
We plan to be very busy next week keeping you informed of all the news from the show. TheStreet.com's coverage begins first thing Tuesday morning, April 1.
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Gary Krakow is TheStreet.com's senior technology correspondent.
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