ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced its cast of wireless applications that enable cellular phone users to access information directly from the Internet.
Motorola Wireless Internet Services will provide cellular and personal communications services subscribers with the ability to retrieve information including e-mail from their computer. The information can be retrieved in either text form or converted from text to voice. Motorola said any Internet user can send electronic messages to cellular and PCS short messaging service users.
The initial services will use SMS capabilities via Code Division Multiple Access technology that enables up to 120 characters of information to be transmitted to a cellular phone. A second phase, which could be available this year, will provide text-to-speech capabilities.
Motorola said two new products are at the heart of its Internet applications. The company’s Service Node is an intelligent network platform that enables cellular carriers to create and deploy advanced voice and messaging services on CDMA networks. Motorola’s Personal Service Creation Environment allows cellular subscribers to customize the information they want from the Internet and the format in which it is delivered to them.
