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The latest mobile phone from Palm, the Pre, and a digital video card Wireless won awards as the best news electronically submitted at the show (CES) in Las Vegas (Nevada, western United States) ended Sunday after four days of exhibitions.

The site specializes news site CNET honored the winners in 10 categories, but the phone multifunction Palm Pre-made to increase the shares of Palm on Thursday after filing, was elected by 4,000 of the 10,000 Internet users who participated in the selection of honors. The Pre, acclaimed by experts for its ability to perform several tasks simultaneously, including web browsing, won comfortably in the category of mobile phones and won the prize for the device that shows the way to the future of electronics. "


A competition organized by the site's information blogs NetShelter distinguished by their side digital video card Eye-Fi, capable of communicating with other wireless devices to transfer video immediately.

The rest of the CNET distinguished honors the last Pocket PC from Sony, the Vaio P Series. The PC, which will be on the market in late January for $ 900, is about the size of a postal and weighs 630 grams. The Japanese manufacturer also won with his digital camera DSC G3, while Samsung won its digital audio player with touch screen P3.


The TV Panasonic G10 was distinguished by its efficient energy consumption and offer the possibility of disseminating video on demand site Amazon.com.

The joystick for game console Nyko was chosen "because it is a very big improvement on the original Wii remote control that will innovate on the (Nintendo console) Wii in many ways."


Preliminary estimates were an electronics fair attendance this year of 130,000 people, 10,000 fewer than those who attended last year. Meanwhile the number of exhibitors at the huge facility ESC fell to 2,700, while last year there were 3,000.

"Our world, our nation and our industry is really facing enormous challenges," said the chairman of the U.S. Microsoft, Steve Ballmer. "Ultimately, it is the power of ideas and innovation that we will move forward despite the economic environment." Ballmer took the show to reveal the details of the operating system Windows 7, which is available since last Friday in its test version (beta) to replace Vista.


Also Sony, LG Electronics, Toshiba, Samsung and Vizio chose this platform to voice their flat screen televisions with 'widgets' (mini-applications or widgets) from Yahoo! That allow surfing the internet. Yahoo! 20 widgets introduced viewers to connect with Internet destinations such as YouTube, Twitter, eBay, MySpace, Amazon, CBS and The New York Times.