Motorola Showcases What's Hot for 2003 at This Year's Consumer Electronics Show
Thursday January 9, 10:01 am ET
Company with 75 Years of Cutting Edge Technology Continues to Innovate
Press Release Source: Motorola, Inc.
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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT - News) will highlight its latest in communication solutions at the 2003 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2003, Motorola continues to drive innovation in handset, broadband and semiconductor technology.
Personal Communications Sector
This week in Shanghai Motorola's Personal Communications Sector unveiled its first 2003 additions to the Motorola Personal Communications Sector's mobile experience portfolio of handsets, applications and accessories.
Motorola's handsets, applications and accessories strategy moving through 2003 is evolutionary and leverages the strength of the company's 2002 offerings as well as reinvigorated "Motorola" brand resonance with consumers worldwide.
Motorola's eight new GSM mobile offerings unveiled in Shanghai provide consumers advanced innovations in messaging (EMS and MMS), Java(TM) applications, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS/WCDMA, with brilliant color screens and dynamic polyphonic speakers prominently featured throughout. These products represent the first wave of mobile phones to be introduced by Motorola in 2003 as the company continues to demonstrate its strength across GSM, UMTS/WCDMA, CDMA and TDMA technologies.
The Personal Communications Sector also announced the launch of its new MotoCoder(TM) global developer program. MotoCoder is a program created in response to ongoing developer feedback, one designed to enable a total mobile development experience. The MotoCoder experience is based on open standards and is supported by ongoing access to free development tools, product portfolio information, technical training, and additional business model and distribution channels. For further information on Motorola's new PCS product announcements, visit www.motorola.com/motoinfo.
In-Home Broadband Communications Solutions for the Connected Home
This week, Motorola's Broadband Sector, the world's leading supplier of digital and set-tops, cable modems, consumer gateways and broadband infrastructure announced its vision for bringing choice to consumers wanting more from their broadband connection. Motorola's connected home, on display at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (Booth # 6142, Central Halls 1&2) offers a full portfolio of broadband solutions designed to keep consumers more informed, entertained and connected in and around their homes.
Motorola celebrated its acquisition of General Instrument Corporation on January 5, 2003. For Motorola, acquiring GI was key to enabling the company to extend its vision of keeping people connected wherever they go -- from the person to the car to the workplace.to the "home." Three years almost exactly to the Jan. 5 close date, the resulting Motorola "Connected Home" portfolio is on display at CES Booth #6142, giving attendees a firsthand glimpse at the realization of Motorola's vision of keeping consumers informed, entertained and connected, in and around their homes.
DCP Home Theater Series -- Motorola returning again to its home electronics roots, while for the Broadband Communications Sector, this is a new and potential growth area. This is another example of the powerful synergies within Motorola.
Motorola's connected home devices are specifically intended for retail purchase, offering consumers choice, and bringing expanded opportunities for network operators and retailers. The product portfolio extends the technology within the company's leading lines of digital set-tops and cable modems to new broadband devices and applications deeper within the home. These products include: all-in-one cable/home theater systems, integrated HD/digital cable solutions, wireless cable modem gateways, and home networking products.
Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector
Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector set a standard for professional audio systems in movie theaters and recording studios when its first 24-bit DSP was introduced in 1987.
Building on the success of the DSP5636X family, Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector announced the launch of its next-generation high performance DSP optimized for both professional and consumer audio applications. The DSP56371 - designed to meet the demands of emerging digital audio decoders from Dolby® technology, DTS® technology, and others - offers a new level of performance in integration, speed and power, simplifying systems design and driving system costs down. The versatile DSP56371, adaptable for Audio/Video (AV) receivers, surround sound decoders, DVD players, digital TV audio systems, and automotive audio systems, is the newest member of Motorola's Symphony(TM) digital audio family.
Motorola will have three exhibits at the show this year. Please plan to stop by booth #2060 - sponsored by the Semiconductor Products Sector - in the Digital Car Pavilion to:
-- Experience Motorola's Symphony digital radio - you have to hear it to
believe it! Destined to be THE hot consumer item for Christmas 2003,
Motorola will demonstrate a digital radio that is engineered to
decrease static, fading, pops and hisses while extending listening
range and eliminating interference from adjacent stations.
-- See Motorola's latest development platform, the mobileGT(TM) 5200, for
vehicle telematics - dynamic automotive systems that combine GPS
tracking and other wireless communications for hands-free mobile
phones and on-board Internet access. The flexible, modular system can
control all the normal functions in your car including the CD player,
radio, mirror and seat adjustments, and air conditioning.
-- Check out the popular MP3-format player with advanced features - via
Motorola's ColdFire(TM) 32-bit architecture - and hear how it boosts
performance and play-back of Internet audio downloads by providing
exceptional battery life, low chip-count, and high flexibility to
enable use with the latest decoders.
About Motorola
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT - News) is a global leader in providing integrated communications and embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 2001 were $30 billion. For more information about Motorola, please visit: www.motorola.com.
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