CES 2007: The Naughty/Nice List

Looking back at CES, I felt like I need to share my experience with a few different companies. First, the Nice List:

1. TabletKiosk, of course, answered all my questions and were quite pleasant. The time spent with them was in their booth and at Lunch@Piero's was well worth it. I don't think I ever had a moment with them when we weren't all smiling.
   
2. VIA was very pleasant as well. Bjorn of UltraMobileLife was a pleasure to meet.
3. James and Kevin of JKOnTheRun! Brief meeting, but still good guys.
4. Scott of TabletGear - very knowledgeable in so many tablet technologies.
   
5. Agere, who knows darn well I'm not a million-hit-per-day blogger, was still very patient with the million questions I had about the BluOnyx.
6. A surprise showing by Sony. I told them outright that I have bad blood with Sony over their history of propriatery formats and harsh licensing models (not to mention the whole CD DRM rootkit mess,) but they still took plenty of time to show me the Mylo and UX series handhelds in depth. They've earned another shot at redemption from this blogger.
   
7. Finally, I could go on for hours about how pleased I was to meet Nokia, and Dr. Ari Jaaksi in particular.
   

Now the Naughty List. There's only one entry.
EDIT: Samsung took time after the show to talk to me and provided me with an interview for their UMPC team. Thank you Samsung for catching up, even a bit late!

1. Samsung. Three times I went to Samsung's huge booth and three times I was unable to find anyone who knew anything about the Q1 concepts, roadmap, or future. I was shuffled back and forth between the display units and the press desk. I was given two names of "who to ask" and attempted to make appointments with each. On both scheduled appointment times, I was offered a "booth tour" and nothing more. The person with whom I had a "scheduled appointment" was nowhere to be found. The last straw was the response to my offer to leave my card with a guy displaying the Q1 series to see if he could get it to one of the named people mentioned above. His response: "That's probably not a good idea" and he sent me back to the press desk.
   

For shame, Samsung. Despite your race with TabletKiosk to have the biggest number of UMPC offerings, you don't seem to care about them too much.