A safer mobile email.
Although the Ford Sync See SYNC. allows text messages received by a
Bluetooth-enabled phone to be "read" over a car's audio
system, USTelematics (www.ustelematics.com) is taking it a step further
with a new technology, Voice Interactive Voice Enhanced Email (Vivee),
that reads emails or text messages through either the device's
internal speaker or through the vehicle's audio system, complete
with its own avatar animated character. Vivee can be loaded directly
onto any Windows or Windows Mobile The Windows platform from Microsoft for handheld devices, including PDAs, cellphones and Portable Media Centers. See Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, Smartphone and Portable Media Center. device (Internet connection service
is limited to Verizon's EVDO high-speed network), with plans to
expand to other systems--including Apple's iPhone--in the near
future. The system is also available as it's own handheld
device--Vivee2go--that includes GPS functionality for navigation, web
browsing See browse. capability and MP3/video playback Playback could mean: - The re-playing of recorded media.
- Gapless playback, the seamless playback of digital audio formats (i. e. ipods, mp3 players)
- Playback singer, a practice in Bollywood musicals.
functionality.
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