Motorola' s integrated personal wireless communicator. Envoy is a personal digital assistant which incorporates two-way wireless and wireline communication. It was announced on 7 March 1994 and released in the third quarter of 1994. It runs Genral Magic' s Magic Capoperating system and Telescript(TM) communications language on Motorola' s Dragon chip set. This includes the highly integrated {Motorola 68349} processor and a special purpose {application specific integrated circuit} (ASIC) referred to as Astro. This chip set was designed specifically for Magic Cap and Telescript. A user can write on the Envoy communicator with the accompanying stylus or a finger, to type and select or move objects on its screen. An on-screen keyboard can be used to input information, draw or write personal notations, or send handwritten messages and faxes. Envoy can send a wireless message to another Envoy, PC or fax broadcast a message to a group, with each member of that group receiving the message in their preferred format gather information based on your requirements schedule a meeting and automatically invite attendees screen, route and organise messages send a business card to another Envoy across a conference room table access real-time scheduling and pricing information for US airline flights, then order tickets via fax or electronic mail keep track of contacts through an address book receive daily news summaries and stock information capture, organize and review business and personal expenses on-the-go gather, edit and analyze information in spreadsheets and graphs compatible with {Lotus 1-2-3} and {Excel} shop in an electronic mall. . [Was it released in Q3 ' 94?] (1995-01-18)
