FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc. has introduced Tenor, its star voice pager that incorporates the company’s InFLEXion high-speed messaging protocol.
Tenor will be used by Paging Network Inc. and PageMart Inc. on their 900 MHz narrowband personal communications services networks. Using Tenor, a caller dials the pager number and leaves a voice message. The paging network then sends a short signal to locate the closest transmitter to the unit, allowing for efficient use of spectrum and contributing to extended battery life. A transmitter built into the Tenor device acknowledges receipt of the signal. The system then sends the complete digitally compressed message, which Motorola calls an Audiogram, from the closest transmitter.
Among Tenor’s capabilities are varying message lengths; capacity to store up to four minutes of messages; automatic forwarding of subsequent messages to a memory bank called Wireless Messaging Gateway, which in turn forwards messages to the pager unit; play, rewind, fast forward, lock (save) and delete capabilities; multiple volume settings that vary from a personal mode for handheld listening to a public mode for room broadcast; six-week battery life, audio and vibrate alert and an LCD message indicator.
