Motorola and Polycom announced a collaborative development effort around delivering personal telepresence on Motoroal Xoom tablets to create broader collaboration choices for businesses.
The standards-based Polycom telepresence video application on Motorola tablets will deliver improved enterprise collaboration and productivity by enabling users to easily connect and share content virtually anywhere via one-to-one or group video experiences.
“Motorola Mobility is making great strides in enabling enterprise users, and we are excited to equip mobile workers with effective collaboration tools that improve decision making and accelerate customer response,” said Christy Wyatt, corporate vice president, software and services product management, Motorola Mobility.
The Motorola Xoom offers a best-in-class dual core processor and 10.1” widescreen HD display, creating an optimized platform for enterprise collaboration. The sleek, stylish design features a front-facing 2-megapixel camera for video conferencing, as well as a rear-facing 5-megapixel camera that captures HD video.
“Polycom is excited to team with Motorola and leverage its innovative device to help enterprise customers expand workforce mobility and drive standards-based telepresence further into the business and mobile markets,” said Sudhakar Ramakrishna, Polycom executive vice president and general manager products and services, and chief development officer.
Polycom telepresence for Motorola devices is planned for availability in the second half of 2011.