Motorola, Inc. has announced the availability of the award-winning Motorola Ojo Personal Video Phone. Consumers can now order the world’s first true-to-life videophone through www.motorola.com/ojo and from premium retail locations throughout the United States beginning later this month.
The Motorola Ojo Personal Video Phone makes it easy to share special moments and feel close to people important to you, even when you can’t physically be together. The phone sends face-to-face conversations – complete with full-motion video and synchronized audio – over any high-speed Internet connection, keeping friends, family, co-workers, and more seamlessly connected.
“Consumers can now experience first-hand the power of visual communications by bringing a Motorola Ojo into their connected home,” said David Grubb, vice president, Motorola consumer entertainment solutions. “The Motorola Ojo lets loved ones share personal moments and make new memories even though they might be thousands of miles apart. By enhancing the traditional voice call with real-time video, Ojo lets you now truly be there, even if you can’t get there.“
With Ojo, seeing is truly believing. So Motorola has partnered with premium retailers to make it easy to get a personal demonstration of Ojo in action.
Award-winning features
The Consumer Electronics Association honored the Motorola Ojo Personal Video Phone with a “2005 Best of Innovations in Design and Engineering” award for simplifying the complex technology of video telephony. Here are five key features of the Motorola Ojo Personal Video Phone:
FULL MOTION VIDEO – Motorola Ojo captures and sends full motion video at 30 frames per second, motion that’s near broadcast-TV quality. Your voice remains synchronized to your image, even as the transmission travels over the Internet.
INNOVATIVE DESIGN – The innovative, stylish and functional design makes it a perfect addition to any room in the home, from the kitchen to the office. The elevated (eye-level), portrait-oriented LCD digital display (7”diagonal) and camera placement create an experience that is natural and true-to-life.
ON-SCREEN CONTROLS – The on-screen menu system makes it easy to make calls and manage your phone numbers. You can attach an image to any contact in the phone book, so you can “dial by face,” or get picture caller ID when Ojo rings. During calls, the display features a small self-viewer, to see how you are positioned in front of the camera, and know exactly what the other party is viewing.
INTEGRATED CORDLESS PHONE – Use the integrated cordless handset to make voice-only calls using either the public service telephone network (PSTN) or a voice-over-IP (VoIP) network. Motorola Ojo also includes a high-quality, full-duplex speaker phone.
EASY SET-UP – Motorola Ojo easily connects to your high-speed Internet and telephone lines and is immediately ready to send or receive calls. There are no user names, passwords, or logon procedures to learn.
Motorola worked with WorldGate Communications (NASDAQ: WGAT, www.wgate.com), a leading developer of video telephony technologies, to bring the Ojo Personal Videophone to market. WorldGate’s patent-pending innovations for Ojo include a state-of-the-art optimization of the advanced MPEG-4 coding standard (H.264), which enables transmission of 30 frames-per-second video with synchronized audio at data rates as low as 100 Kbps. This allows Motorola Ojo to work within the upstream data rates for both DSL and cable broadband networks, and ensures that existing broadband infrastructures can handle video phone traffic.
The Motorola Ojo Personal Video Phone (Model PVP1000) carries an MSRP of $799.99.
