A lot of good news, a lot of information.
I say "Day 1" but I'm not sure I'll be able to do Day 2 tomorrow - I've got kendo, so I may not have time.
The convention is 3 days long, so this will probably bleed over into the weekend.
There's a lot of new stuff, but there's a lot of just...demonstrations of previously announced products. Because I'm pretty constrained for time, I'll o­nly be covering the new stuff. If you're interested in something specific, let me know and I will see what I can do. But run a search for it first o­n this site - I call it "not new" for a reason.

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-DoCoMo booth

-Sony Finance FeliCa demonstration
-Models of all new phones o­n display
-"UbiButton" detects vibrations in human body

At a corner of the booth about "the future of cellular phones," a reference version of a product called the "UbiButton" was o­n display. It is attached to the wrist much like a wristwatch, and by o­nly snapping the fingers, it will detect the vibrations. The version o­n display at the exhibit used an IR port, and it could be used to turn o­n and off a light by snapping the fingers.

The senior chief engineer, Masarou Fukumoto, gave an explanation o­n the technology: "it has an internal single axis acceleration sensor, which recognizes the frequency of waves generated by the snapping of the fingers. These frequency of the waves represent the sound that can be heard by putting your arm up to your ear, then hitting it with your fingers - we call this 'shock acceleration.' By including o­nly a simple shock sensor, there could be times when the switch is triggered by o­nly swinging the arm; we've made it so that o­nly an impact will trigger the switch. Though this technology does not have much to do with cellular phones, it "will be an easy to understand interface" for the corporations of the future.




-128kbps live camera & mobile printer solution
-IP phone demonstration with N900iL

Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19800.html

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-Kyocera booth

-W21K exhibit
-Overseas models exhibit

Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19804.html

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-KDDI booth

-New WIN model demonstrations
-Bluetooth pen with OCR and handwriting > image conversion

Bluetooth got a lot of attention because of the Road Traffic Act (which made talking o­n cellular phones while driving illegal in Japan). KDDI currently offers the "A5504T" phone with a Bluetooth function, and o­n display were headsets and portable mobile printers taking advantage of the technology.

Of the products o­n display was a pen with an internal Bluetooth function, jointly developed with Anoto of Sweden. This product, announced by Hitachi Maxell last summer, already has a version that connects with USB shipping; but this is the first demonstration of a Bluetooth model. It works just like filling out surveys; users write in designated spaces using the pen. A camera next to the tip of the pen records the lines it leaves, and this data is transferred by Bluetooth to the "A5504T," and it can even be sent as a JPEG image attachment in an e-mail. It also features an OCR function, and even if Kanji are written, they can be recognized as text.

In the same corner of the booth, a technology in which a PC could be automatically locked when a cellular phone leaves Bluetooth range was also o­n display.




-Technology to draw graphs by voice recognition, terrestrial digital supporting phones, etc.

Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19805.html

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-DDI Pocket booth

-256kbps service to start before end of year
-"Jacketphone" miniaturized PHS modules

Though the "Jacketphone" SD card PHS unit was o­n display at last year's WIRELESS JAPAN, the mockups o­n display at the booth of the same company this year were of the "R-SIM (Radio Subscribe Identify Module)" type, and had a much smaller image.

The Jacketphones o­n display this time around were a small cellular phone type, music player type, mail-only type, and watch type. While none of them are scheduled for being turned into a real product yet, the display did attract much attention from convention attendees.





Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19806.html

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-Panasonic booth

-Focus o­n NTT DoCoMo units, particularly the N900iV outputting phone video and images to a large plasma screen monitor
-Edy reader
-DIMORA demonstration
-Overseas GSM unit, the "GSM X500"
-Enterprise level products and solutions

Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19808.html

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-NEC booth

-N900iL and other enterprise level solutions demonstration
-Other demos involving the N900iS and N506i

Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19807.html

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-Sanyo booth

-W21SA demonstration
-small printer demonstration

Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19809.html