Envoy

Motorola's integrated personal wireless communicator. Envoy

is a personal digital assistant which incorporates two-way

wireless and wireline communication. It was announced on 7

March 1994 and released in the third quarter of 1994. It runs

Genral Magic's Magic Cap operating system and

Telescript(TM) communications language on Motorola's Dragon

chip set. This includes the highly integrated Motorola68349 processor and a special purpose application specificintegrated circuit (ASIC) referred to as Astro. This chip

set was designed specifically for Magic Cap and

Telescript.

A user can write on the Envoy communicator with the

accompanying stylus or a finger, to type and select or move

objects on its screen. An on-screen keyboard can be used to

input information, draw or write personal notations, or send

handwritten messages and faxes.

Envoy can send a wireless message to another Envoy, PC or

fax; broadcast a message to a group, with each member of that

group receiving the message in their preferred format; gather

information based on your requirements; schedule a meeting and

automatically invite attendees; screen, route and organise

messages; send a business card to another Envoy across a

conference room table; access real-time scheduling and pricing

information for US airline flights, then order tickets via fax

or electronic mail; keep track of contacts through an

address book; receive daily news summaries and stock

information; capture, organize and review business and

personal expenses on-the-go; gather, edit and analyze

information in spreadsheets and graphs compatible with Lotus1-2-3 and Excel; shop in an electronic mall.

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[Was it released in Q3 '94?]

(1995-01-18)