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MOTOMOMENTS: Ojo Goes on TourBY JOHANNE TORRES
TMCnet VoIP Minute Watch Columnist
Motorola's Ojo Personal Video Phone is coming to a theater, I mean, festival near you. The electronics giant announced today it launched the tour, an interactive road show "designed to connect people with the Ojo right in their home towns." The tour will include a MOTOMOMENTS truck, several Motorola Ojo displays built for live demos, and Motorola reps available to answer questions and highlight the latest Motorola Ojo features.
According to the company's news release, "friends and families from Boston to Washington DC will be able to experience the first true-to-life video phone at home town festivals, Expos and retail stops along the MOTOMOMENTS tour route." "This isn't pie-in-the-sky technology. The Motorola Ojo is here and now, giving grandparents a chance to see their grandkids not just on special occasions, but every day of the year," said Bill Taylor, senior director of marketing, Motorola Connected Home Solutions. "We are launching the MOTOMOMENTS Tour so that more people can experience how real-time video brings people closer together. It's an opportunity for us to share a revolutionary technology that lets people create stronger connections for important moments in their lives."
If you want to check the phone out, make sure to check through the schedule and find the city nearest you:
The Motorola Ojo is available in retail locations nationwide. Motorola recently announced a new feature for the phone, Ojo Video Mail. Ojo Video Mail adds video to your mail so you can capture messages in real-time for playback later on.
Motorola decided to take its Ojo personal video phone to retailers Tweeter Home Entertainment, Magnolia Audio Video, and Harvey Electronics through a new agreement announced last month. The electronics giant explained that with the addition of these new partners, consumers from coast-to-coast can now walk in to one of these retail locations and experience Motorola Ojo first-hand. The partnerships will allow Motorola to offer Ojo in over 200 retail locations.
The Motorola Ojo enables face-to-face conversations, complete with full-motion video and synchronized audio over any high-speed Internet connection. According to Motorola, the company partnered with WorldGate Communications, a developer of video telephony technologies, to bring the device to market. WorldGate added on to the device its optimization technology 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 the device 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.
TMCnet’s own Tom Keating blogged Motorola’s announcement back in January, when we first became aware of Ojo’s existence.
Currently, the Motorola Ojo Personal Video Phone (Model PVP1000) carries an MSRP of $799.99 and a $14.95 monthly service fee.
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