Xypoint Launches Wireless Audiotext E-mail Service

Xyprint has taken the wraps off Nomad, an e-mail
audiotext service designed for users of mobile phones.

As well as allowing registered users to listen, rather than view,
their e-mail on their mobiles, the service allows users to reply (by
voice attachments) and interactively control their e-mail.

The service is still under active beta test, and will soon be
available to third-party cellular carriers. The interesting aspect is
that the firm also allows end users to register with the service
direct via its Web site at http://www.webwirelessnow.com .

Plans call for Xypoint to augment Nomad as soon as wireless location
services become available on US carrier's networks. This will make the
services location dependent, automatically switching extra features on
or off as required.

Nomad is designed to be several steps beyond simple outsourced
audiotext e-mail, the firm says, and can integrate with an existing
Outlook-based e-mail system, which can be located behind a company
firewall, if required.

Nomad is designed, the firm says, to work with a digital mobile phone,
since it notifies users of a new e-mail when they are away from their
computer, identify the sender and subject, and offer them the option
to listen to the e-mail message and the opportunity to reply to it by
simply speaking into their phone.

The recipient will then receive an e-mail with an Internet address
that will allow them to listen to the message from their computer.

Xypoint says that Nomad automatically synchronizes the user's PC
e-mail inbox if the message was deleted, read, replied to, or forwarded.

Along with location-based services, plans also call for Nomad to have
extra features like instant messaging, calendar, and task lists, added
at a later stage.

Ken Arneson, the firm's president, said that Nomad combines a unique
blend of voice, text technologies to bring consumers "dirt simple"
services and eliminate the need for special purpose devices like
Research in Motion's Blackberry smart PDA (personal digital
assistant).

"Now you only need a digital phone to stay connected to your
corporate e-mail while you are on the road," he said.

Xypoint's Web site is at http://www.xypoint.com.

Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com.