Las Vegas - The CES pre-show yesterday revealed a lot of surprises. From Samsung's new Galaxy S inspired media player and the announcement of a Wi-Fi only Galaxy Tab to Motorola Mobility stunning new dual processor-powered Android Atrix smartphone (coming to Bell in Canada "sometime soon") to the unveiling of the BlackBerry PlayBook, the dual-core and Honeycomb slathered Xoom Tablet, to Microsoft's Kinect and Windows 8 running on SoC (Systems on a Chip).
Motorola Xoom: The first Honeycomb powered Android tablet is also te first generation of dual-processor challengers to the iPad
New Cliq- Motorola Mobility proves it is in it to win it with a host of new phones including the new and improved Cliq 2
Showstopper: Motorola's Atrix pushed the boundaries of smartphone specs and came with a cool dock that doubles as a notebook which is powered by the super smartphone
Tablets in all shapes and forms: This folding tablet from Samsung runs desktop variety Windows 7
Resurface: Microsoft's Surface 2 is made of millions of tiny cameras that can scan and interact with anything they come into contact with. Part of the demo was a cool RBC app for banking customers
The incredible shrinking motherboard: A tiny System on a Chip motherboard (extreme left) poses next to a full-sized mobo and offers similar performance but way less power consumption. Perfect for tablets and smartphones
Microsoft obsoletes the remote control: Kinect now controls movies, music, Netflix and Hulu with voice and gestures.
Going strong: Windows Phone 7 has 5,500 apps, not bad for a two month old OS. Copy and paste plus multitasking said to be coming soon