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| Motorola Ojo |
Further, when playing the demo, another interesting comment was "It's both a technological masterpiece and a showpiece". I do have to say it does look pretty cool, trendy, and chic. It's cool design reminds me of (dare I say) an iMac. It certainly looks like Motorola designed this product to be "hip", taking a page from Apple's playbook. I must say it looks like a LCD monitor was slapped on top of a handset phone. Everytime I look at the product photo I feel tempted to grab and remove just the handset part to answer an incoming call, but it looks like it's attached to the LCD. I'm sure holding a large LCD screen against my head would probably irradiate my brain. Although I think LCDs actually have low radiation. Anyway, I digress... Actually, the handset must be removable, but none of the demos and none of the photos demonstrate whether it does or not. But I doubt they would force you to use speakerphone for every call.
Coolness factor or hipness factor aside, it remains to be seen whether or not videophones can start to show some real solid deployment numbers. The other problem is videophones tend to be proprietary in nature. For instance, the Packet8 videophone cannot transmit video to a Vonage videophone (OEM'ed from Viseon). These videophones will have to standardize if they hope to sell units in any real quantities. Competing videophone vendors will have to put their differences aside and work together on this one. No one wants to pay $300-$600 for a videophone that can only call someone else using the same brand. So get together guys and standardize. Trust me on this one.
In any event, here are some of Motorola Mojo's I mean Motorola Ojo's features:
- 30fps
- MPEG4 (H.264) compression
- Two-way speakerphone
- 16:9 aspect ratio LCD display (Hmmm, wonder if it'll play widescreen DVDs! 
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Here's the Motorola Ojo site:
Motorola Ojo Personal Video Phone
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The handset works like a cordless, but unfortunately the Ojo PVP1000 does not have video tracking. Therefore when you pick up the cordless and walk around with it the camera takes a picture of what was behind you when you were sitting in front of the phone, unless you turn the video off.
The handset works like a cordless, but unfortunately the Ojo PVP1000 does not have video tracking. Therefore when you pick up the cordless and walk around with it the camera takes a picture of what was behind you when you were sitting in front of the phone, unless you turn the video off.
The handset works like a cordless, but unfortunately the Ojo PVP1000 does not have video tracking. Therefore when you pick up the cordless and walk around with it the camera takes a picture of what was behind you when you were sitting in front of the phone, unless you turn the video off.
ojo is spanish for eye and pronounced 'oh-hoh.' the motorola product calls it 'oh-joe' which sounds closer to mojo and butchers the pronounciation. it's a cool product though.
ojo is spanish for eye and pronounced 'oh-hoh.' the motorola product calls it 'oh-joe' which sounds closer to mojo and butchers the pronounciation. it's a cool product though.
when Verizon and SBC start rolling out their fiber services--this type of product could come into vogue.
They are correct about the handset being detachable. but the Ojo is actually made by a company called Worldgate - www.wgate.com - and Motorola has signed on to market and distribute it. There's a bit more info on the Ojo on Worldgate's webpage than on Motorola's. Very cool product, it will be even cooler if they can figure out how to get video in the handset and still keep the video quality.
finally! you can order ojo directly from motorola at their website www.motorola.com/ojo. they will ship it to you when the product is available in a few weeks if you give them your email address
Ojos can be now ordered through www.ojoworld.com