Motorola Inc.’s North American Paging Subscriber Division plans to announce several new paging devices at the Personal Communications Showcase in Orlando this week, including a new voice pager.
The next-generation portable answering machine, or LS950V, is 40 percent smaller than the original Tenor model. It also contains the same play, reverse, forward, pause, lock and delete message control and can store up to three minutes of voice messages. Users also can record a greeting in their own voice and call-forward their home and office phones directly to the device. It operates on a single AA battery. Pricing information was not available at press time.
Other new paging devices Motorola plans to unveil include a big screen word message pager and a new expanded message management numeric pager.
The big screen CP1250 features an eight-line display screen of up to 26 characters per line. It can read graphics and charts and has a 117,000 total character message memory. Motorola said the device was designed for business professionals who must manage large bulks of data on a personal device. It automatically illuminates the display screen in low light and has a zoom function that allows users to select a four-line display with larger font.
The pager also can store 15 different information services, which can be moved to different folders, along with any messages sent. It has a to-do list, address book and scheduling functions as well.
The QuickView service allows users to bookmark large messages for easy access later. The Quiet Time feature lets users turn the pager off at predetermined times and still get messages.
It transmits via the FLEX Info protocol, designed to organize large amounts of data into smaller sections with topics. Suggested retail price is $210.
Finally, the BR850 is a new line of Bravo numeric pager that includes a message capacity of up to 60 messages. It also allows users to tag urgent messages and contains QuickNotes-five preprogrammed messages displayed as text, such as Call Office or Running Late. It also has a function like the CP1250’s Quiet Time, called Private Time.
The new model is 20 percent smaller than previous Bravo models and carries a suggested retail price of $100.
