Motorola is kicking off the big conversation about intelligent living at CeBIT 2001

Motorola is showcasing its smart GPRS handsets, applications and innovative future concept models, bringing intelligent solutions to everyday life

Something unusual is about to happen...Things are starting to talk to other things. Wireless phones are talking to vending machines. Computers are talking to PDAs. TVs are talking to schools. Something amazing is about to happen.

Motorola, at CeBIT, is presenting ground breaking, intelligent products and technologies, of today and tomorrow, which deliver into four key environments: the home, work team, auto and for the person, ensuring seamless communication whenever and wherever you are.

For the person

Motorola is showcasing its new extended GPRS product portfolio, demonstrating its leadership in delivering the mobile Internet. The portfolio includes:

• Timeport 280 phone, offering data, fax and SMS functions and with TrueSync technology, allows synchronisation between handset and PC.
• Accompli 008, the all-in-one state of the art remote office handset, with a large touch screen and handwriting recognition, provides fast access to the Internet and full e-mail, data /fax capabilities and SMS.
• V.series 66, the smallest GPRS tri-band clamshell phone on the market.
• Timeport 260, Motorola`s original, first commercially available, tri-band GPRS phone.
• Talkabout 192 GPRS phone, with animated screen savers and iTap predictive texting for quick and simple text messaging.

Here at CeBIT Motorola is also demonstrating for the first time a full range of 6 future concepts that incorporate new and unique ways to communicate with each other and the environment and access data services, redefining the dimensions of daily life.

These concepts have all been designed by Motorola`s Consumer Experience Design Organisation.

• Mood Hood: This funky design harnesses the power of wireless and broadband to create a networked soundtrack to your life that will always be with you and can be shared with friends.
• Life Recorder: Using state-of-the-art smart technology, Motorola`s Life Recorder collates images, sounds, messages and notes from your life into a networked diary which can be shared.
• Always Connected: A view master device offering permanent connection to colleagues, messages and data.
• Hearing Hand: Motorola`s wearable technology can send tonal feedback from smart tags on merchandise back to a wireless earbud, allowing the users to access information such as size and price.
• Shared Knowledge: This concept is able to capture reality and share knowledge seamlessly during remote meetings, while accessing shared data for the ultimate in management efficiency. Other features include natural interaction and multimedia conferencing with other users in digital environments.
• Other Eyes: Video and sounds to enhance communication through messages and conversations. Wherever you are, your family can literally share a day in your life, seeing the things you do via the Motorola Other Eyes miniaturised camera.

Tim Parsey VP and Director of Motorola`s Consumer Experience Design Organisation said, "These designs are about innovation focused on the way we integrate communication technology into our lives and propose new future data-centric applications as well as new product forms. They are examples of the ideas we are developing to envisage the future."

Auto

In the car environment, Motorola is showcasing its Internet enabled telematics and infotainment solution Motorola`s iRadio"a system. The technology offers a packaged multimedia functionality, which can be accessed at home, in the car and on the individual mobile devices. The Java-based platform provides personalised, location-based services, real time traffic information, dynamic off-board navigation, music-on-demand, eCommerce options and email. With speech recognition and additional features, Motorola`s iRadio"a system delivers information, communications and entertainment to the car without diverting the driver`s attention from traffic.

The Work Team

As a leading provider of TETRA systems and terminals, Motorola is proud to announce, its new 2nd generation TETRA handset, the MTH500; a stylish yet robust, digital 2-way radio, incorporating high performance mobile technology and advances messaging. The "TETRA room" will offer a choice of applications and solutions, for mission critical communications including applications using TETRA Packet Data Service based on IP as well as voice communication.

Live demonstrations will focus on the Public Safety, Government and Emergency markets.

The Home

Providing leading edge communications solutions for the home, Motorola is showcasing a variety of technical developments. These include: Internet based technologies that allow consumers to surf the Internet and talk simultaneously using only a single connection and modems that are over ten times faster than the quickest telephone modems currently available on the market. Plus innovative all digital and analogue network solutions which, with the help of the Dvi range of set top boxes, enable users to watch TV, use the Internet and chat with friends - all at the same time.

New Applications

Motorola will also be demonstrating the industry`s most advanced set of GPRS applications at CeBIT. These cross over the 4 essential environments and range from:

• Motorola m-Wallet: A mobile e-commerce solution, allowing users to purchase goods on merchant sites over WAP / GPRS technology.
• Motorola Mobile Office Solutions: GRPS access to critical corporate systems, such as email, calendar and contacts. As well as travel solutions for corporate ticket and travel services.
• Location based services: Providing access to point of interest information including restaurants, hotels, cinemas and routing services.

Entertainment gaming applications including:

Who wants to be a millionaire? Fun and interactive wireless game application based on the well-known TV game show.

• Virtual Pet: Care and nurture a creature from birth throughout the stages of its virtual life.
• Virtual Boy/Girlfriend: Win the heart of the boyfriend/girlfriend through a series of lifestyle events.
• Trivial Pursuit: Compelling wireless game based on the world`s leading trivia game.
• Digital imaging applications with Lightsurf: Attach the camera to the mobile handset to capture and share images anywhere at anytime.

Other demonstrations include over the air J2ME technology, instant messaging/chat and mobile auction applications.

Motorola`s strategy is to harnesses the power of wireless, broadband, the Internet and multimedia to deliver network, embedded and chip-based solutions for people, offices, homes and cars, an intelligent combination that delivers the smart future here and now. Motorola is the only company with the heritage, technology and consumer understanding and end-to-end solutions that is truly able to offer seamless communications anywhere, anyhow.

"The intelligent future is about capturing the knowledge that`s around us and using it wisely to develop real solutions to the challenges faced by real people. Motorola is uniquely positioned to make people`s lives better by making things simpler, smarter, safer and synchronised," explained Bob Growney, President and Chief Operating Officer, Motorola Inc.

Motorola is already creating a new world; from the chips within to end-to-end network solutions and from smart products of today to the dream products of tomorrow. From the software that makes wireless PDAs work reliably, to the software that enables fingerprint recognition technology, Motorola is making the intelligent future a reality. www.motorola.com/mediacenter