Motorola WiMAX Displays at CES

There will be a lot of WiMAX technology on display from Motorola at CES, including the new CPEi 100 single-data-port modem announced today. From the press release, the CPEi 100 will be “one of the devices used during CES on a demonstration WiMAX network built by Motorola in conjunction with Intel and Clearwire.” [...]

New Motorola Mobile TV Product – The Mobile TV DH01

Motorola has just launched the Mobile TV DH01, a portable TV player supporting the DVBH broadcasting standard.
Since I haven’t gotten hands-on time with the device, I’m going to keep this post limited to product specs. However, I did get a few questions answered that aren’t listed outright in the press release, [...]

Motorola MPEG-4 Set-Tops

If you read this blog regularly, you may have seen this news coming. Motorola is introducing a whole new line of MPEG-4 AVC, all-digital set-tops. The DCX line includes the DCX3400 dual-tuner HD DVR, the DCX3200 single-tuner HD set-top, and the DCX100 single-tuner SD set-top.
With broadcasters already making the switch to MPEG-4 compression, [...]

It’s a Modem? It’s a Phone? Yes, and More.

In a parade of pre-CES press releases (more info to come), Motorola announced the Surfboard SBV5422 IP phone-plus-modem today. As a veteran of earlier cordless phone endeavors (it’s a margin-eating business), I was skeptical when I first heard about this product, but it does combine a home phone with something Motorola is very good [...]

CES Starts Today

I won’t be getting on a plane for Las Vegas until Sunday, but Motorola has just released a slew of announcements in honor of the grand gadget shindig set to begin this weekend. Following are four posts (to be published in quick succession) covering the product news.