Bluetooth Every Day
HANOVER, Germany-(BUSINESS WIRE)-March 22, 2001-Motorola is showcasing five new smart GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) handsets, functional and fun applications, and innovative future concepts, bringing smart solutions to everyday life.

Motorola, at CeBIT, is presenting groundbreaking products and technologies to deliver smart solutions to four key daily life environments: the home, work team, the auto, and for the person, aiming to ensure seamless communication whenever and wherever you are; whatever device you use.

For the person, Motorola is the only company to deliver GPRS handsets in volume. At CeBIT, the company is showcasing its new extended, five product strong GPRS portfolio, demonstrating its leadership in delivering the mobile Internet. The GPRS portfolio includes:

  • Timeport™ 280 phone, a phone that can help keep the busy executive "in sync" with business even when they are out of the office.
  • Accompli™ 008, the all-in-one, state-of-the-art handset, incorporating phone, large touch screen, handwriting recognition, e-mail, synchronized PIM (personal information manager), and the ability to add new applications through J2ME technology.
  • V.Series™ 66, Motorola's small iconic clamshell phone adds global chic with triband capability.
  • Timeport™ 260, Motorola's original, first commercially available, triband GPRS phone.
  • Talkabout® 192 phone, a consumer-friendly phone with animated screen savers and iTAP™ predictive text entry for quick and simple text messaging.

Here at CeBIT, Motorola is also presenting, for the first time, a full range of six product 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.

  • 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's 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's Eyes miniaturized camera.

Tim Parsey, Vice President and Director of Motorola's Consumer Design Organization, said, "These designs are examples of 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."

Auto

In the car environment, Motorola is showcasing its Internet-enabled telematics and infotainment solution, Motorola's iRadio™ system product. This technology offers a packaged multimedia functionality, which can be accessed at home, in the car, and on individual mobile devices. The Java™ programming language-based platform allows the product to access personalized, location-based services, real-time traffic information, dynamic off-board navigation, music-on-demand, e-commerce options, and e-mail. With speech recognition and additional features, Motorola's iRadio™ system delivers information, communications, and entertainment to the car without diverting the driver's attention.

Work Team

As a leading provider of TETRA technology, Motorola is proud to announce its new second-generation TETRA handset, the MTH500; a stylish yet robust, digital two-way radio, incorporating high performance mobile technology and advanced 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 (Internet Protocol) as well as voice communication. Live demonstrations will focus on the Public Safety and Government markets.

At Home

Providing leading-edge communications solutions and devices for the home, Motorola is showcasing a variety of technical developments. These include: Internet-based technology products that allow consumers to surf the Internet and talk simultaneously using only a single connection and modems that are over 10 times faster than the quickest telephone modems currently available on the market. Plus innovative all-digital and

analog network solutions that, 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 four essential environments and range from:

  • Motorola m-Wallet: A mobile e-commerce solution that makes it simple and more secure for users to purchase goods on merchant sites.
  • Motorola Mobile Office Solutions: Extends to mobile users' access to key office applications, such as e-mail, calendar, and contacts.
  • Location-based services: Provide 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 Date: Win the heart of a 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 any time.

Other demonstrations include downloading of new applications to handsets over-the-air using J2ME technology, instant messaging/chat, and mobile auction applications. Motorola harnesses the power of wireless, broadband, the Internet, and multimedia to deliver network, embedded, and chip-based solutions for people, offices, homes, and cars, a smart combination that delivers the future here and now. Motorola is the only company with the heritage, technology, consumer understanding, and end-to-end solutions that is truly able to offer seamless communications anywhere, anyhow.

"It is about capturing the knowledge that's around us and using it wisely to develop products that offer real solutions to the challenges faced by real people. Motorola is uniquely positioned to make people's lives better by making things simpler and smarter than ever before" explained Bob Growney, President and Chief Operating Officer, Motorola Inc.

Motorola is creating a smarter new world and is making the future a reality today.

Notes to editors:

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in providing integrated communications and embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 2000 were $37.6 billion. Motorola product concepts maybe changed or replaced without notice. Products may not be available worldwide. Intelligence Everywhere is a registered trademark of Motorola, Inc. MOTOROLA and the Stylized M Logo are trademarks of Motorola, Inc.® Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. All other product or service names are the property of their trademark owner respective owners.

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CONTACT:

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or

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