My day at the CeBIT
On the weekend I payed my visit to this year’s CeBIT in Hannover. Well, let me tell you it was not very different from all the other years before, except that the companies were even more close-fisted then before. While a few years back, you normally went home with a bag filled to bursting with cool giveaways, DVDs, Software etc., this year I did not even get a free copy of the "Connect". A thing that did not change is the knowledge, or should I better say not existant knowlege, of the nice looking girls at all the stands and booths. Here a typical example of a fair-talk with a hostess at the CeBit (This is not a real situation but fictional and purely satirical and not meant to insult anyone):
Me looking at a new cell-phone. A hostess is coming towards me.
Hostess: "Hi! Do you like it?" (of course she was referring at the cell phone at my hand ;-))
Me: "Yeah, it looks quite nice…"
Hostess: "Look it even has a touch screen and it comes in lots of differen colors"
Me thinking: "Yeah, great. I hope they have them also in pink…"
Me saying: "Can you tell me something about the features?"
Hostess thinking: "Oh shit, I hate when they ask me that…"
Hostess saying: "Suuure! As you see it has a touchscreen…"
Me thinking: "Yeah, we got that already, yeah and the different colors".
Me saying: Yeah, does it have WiFi?"
Hostess (looking puzzled): "No. Sorry, It can’t make coffee, the next model certainly can do that. We show that in 07"
Me thinking: "Arrrrgghhhhh!!!".
Me saying (surpressing to ROFL): "Ok what about the internal harddrive?"
Hostess thinking: "Ugh! What does he want from me? No I am not that kinda girl!"
Hostess saying: "Sorry I cannot say anything about that, you should go to the main information and ask them."
Me: "Welllll, thank you for your kind help".
Me thinking: "Oh my goooooddddd!!!"
Now you got some idea of the mental state I was in after a couple of talks like that. Something inside my head told me "KILL KILL KILL". Well I supressed that fortunately and rather took some photos to calm down. The results you can see in the photo section. But anyway it was a nice day. Here come my personal CeBIT 06 highlights:
- The UMPC
- Samsung SCH-B600 (cellphone with 10MP camera)
- Samsung YM-P1
- Nokia E61
- Garmin GPSMap 60CSx
So see ya at the CeBIT Asia in Shanghai in September.
April 4th, 2006 at 10:32
As you might have found out by yourself, the girls called hostesses are there for the same reason as why the cellphones have different colors and shapes, to make it more interesting. ^_^ So why do you aks the features about the features? Last but not least a small experience from the tokyo motor show:
hostess (european girl): *looking bored*
me: excuse me, since you are working for a german company, do you speak german?
hostess: since you doesn’t look really important, NO, I don’t speak this ’scheissen sprachi’.
me: *getting amused* And I am surely not the first one to ask for your number?
hostess: look, I am standing here the whole day, so when I’m ready with that in the evening I don’t need you to start with it. And yes, you are not the first… but hopefully the last.
me: mmmh, shouldn’t you at least try to show me some cars?
hostess: you are interested in the cars?
me: actually,… no.
hostess: *in a louder advertisemnt voice* sure, you can come back any time… *smiling deadly*
me: *also loud* With pleasure, the features have something… challenging, a bit unripe maybe but challenging *waving*