Ericsson introduces worlds smallest digital PCS phone with unparalleled voice quality at PCS 96.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 1996--Ericsson, a worldwide leader in telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. and wireless products, unveiled the world's most compact and lightweight digital Personal Communications Services See PCS. (PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. ) phones. These new phones, the CF 388 and the CH 388, were introduced at the Personal Communications Showcase 1996 (PCS '96), a telecommunications show displaying a wide array of wireless products and services. Ericsson's new CF 388 (flip) and CH 388 (standard) phones are designed and built for the new PCS 1900 systems. The phones measure approximately two inches in width, five inches long and one inch thick. This makes them the smallest and lightest PCS phones available today. The new 388 series dramatically improves battery life. The light battery provides users two hours and 20 minutes of talk and 28 hours of standby time, while the high capacity battery provides five hours and 40 minutes of talk and 67 hours of standby time. "The new Ericsson CF and CH 388 PCS phones feature enhanced voice quality using the first commercially available Enhanced Full Rate Enhanced Full Rate or EFR or GSM-EFR is a speech coding standard that was developed in order to improve the quite poor quality of GSM-Full Rate (FR) codec. Working at 12.2 kbit/s the EFR provides wirelike quality in any noise free and background noise conditions. Vocoder or Voice Coder," said Mike Farese, vice president, Cellular Phones, Ericsson Inc. "PCS 1900 technology is driving much of then future of wireless communication. At Ericsson, we are proud to be leading this exciting new development." Ericsson's CF and CH 388 phones offer a wide range of improved features that allow you to carry your office connection in your pocket. With Short Message Service (or SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. ), the phones function as two way alpha-numeric pagers. The user may receive messages from a variety of sources, and reply right from the keypad A small keyboard or supplementary keyboard keys; for example, the keys on a calculator or the number/cursor cluster on a computer keyboard. See programmable keypad. . The 388 series also has mail message waiting notification to inform the user of a waiting voice mail or text message. In addition to all of this, the CF 388 and CH 388 Ericsson PCS phones allow users to connect with the Internet and send faxes almost anywhere. Useful additional features such as a clock with an alarm, calculator calculator or calculating machine, device for performing numerical computations; it may be mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic. The electronic computer is also a calculator but performs other functions as well. and calendar are included to make the Ericsson phones a personal office that you can take anywhere. Ericsson's 85,000 employees are active in more than 100 countries. Their combined expertise in switching, radio and networking makes Ericsson a world leader in telecommunications. CONTACT: Ericsson Kathy Egan/Lars Jonsteg, 212/685-4030 |
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