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Nextel To Offer First Full-Size Portable
Keyboard for Wireless Phones
Posted by WDN, August 06, 2001
Designed for Mobile Professionals,
Collapsible Keyboard Fits into Pocket
RESTON, Va., Aug. 6, 2001--Nextel
Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:NXTL), today announced that it
will be selling the first portable keyboard to enhance mobile office
applications with Nextel i85s and i50sx wireless phones by
Motorola.
The portable keyboard, called the Motorola iBoard(TM),
provides the convenience and utility of a full-size, laptop keyboard
for composing e-mail messages, managing address books and
calendars, and using Java(TM) applications, such as a business
calulator and expense report pad.
The lightweight, folding iBoard keyboard, designed and
manufactured by Think Outside, provides unique function keys to
optimize Nextel Internet-ready phone operations. These
capabilities include accessing Nextel Wireless Web services,
launching applications such as date book and note pad, activating
the speakerphone, turning off the phone and adjusting phone
volume.
"Nextel is the first wireless carrier to have available a portable
keyboard, strengthening the company's leadership position in
delivering mobility solutions for business customers," said Greg
Santoro, vice president of Internet and Wireless Services for
Nextel. "The new keyboard will help users increase productivity by
more easily accessing mobile office applications as well as content
and commerce services using the Nextel Wireless Web."
Nextel is the only wireless carrier to have Java-enabled phones
available in the United States market. The i85s and i50sx
Internet-ready phones include an embedded Java-powered
environment that allows developers to maximize the advantages of
local storage and processing. The Java capability allows
subscribers to run applications and update data, even while
disconnected from the network.
Nextel expects to sell more than one million i85s phones over
the course of a year.
The phones can access Nextel four-in-one wireless services
including Nextel Direct Connect(R), a digital two-way radio feature
that supports fast, effective communications among users in the
same fleet. Other Nextel services include digital cellular, text and
number messaging, two-way messaging and wireless web access.
The portable iBoard keyboard is currently available for $99.95 through a Nextel sales
representative, the Nextel web site at www.nextel.com and Nextel Nextday accessories hotline at
1-800-914-3240. It will also be available through Nextel's Authorized Representatives and
Retailers.
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. A number
of the matters and subject areas discussed in this press release that are not historical or current facts
deal with potential future circumstances and developments, including those relating to the anticipated
introduction of new technologies. The discussion of such matters and subject areas is qualified by
the inherent risks and uncertainties surrounding future expectations generally, and also may materially
differ from Nextel's actual future experience involving any one or more of such matters and subject
areas. Nextel has attempted to identify, in context, certain of the factors that it currently believes
may cause actual future experience and results to differ from Nextel's current expectations regarding
the relevant matter or subject area. Such risks and uncertainties include successful performance of
our new technologies, competitive conditions, market acceptance of our contemplated new services,
access to sufficient capital to meet our operating and financing needs and those that are described
from time to time in Nextel's reports filed with the SEC, including Nextel's annual report on Form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 2000 and its subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.
This press release speaks only as of its date, and Nextel disclaims any duty to update the
information herein.
About Nextel
Nextel Communications Inc., based in Reston, Va., is a leading provider of fully integrated
wireless communications services and has built the largest guaranteed all-digital wireless network in
the United States covering thousands of communities across the United States. Nextel and Nextel
Partners, Inc., currently serve 188 of the top 200 U.S. markets.
Through recent market launches, Nextel and Nextel Partners service is available today in areas of
the U.S. where approximately 220 million people live or work. In addition, through Nextel
International, Inc., Nextel has wireless operations and investments in Canada, Mexico, Argentina,
Brazil, the Philippines, Peru, Chile and Japan.
Nextel, the Nextel logo, and Nextel Direct Connect are trademarks and/or service marks of
Nextel Communications, Inc. MOTOROLA, iBoard and all other trademarks indicated as such
herein are trademarks of Motorola, Inc.(R)Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. Java and all other Java-based
marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other
countries.
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