Saygus Founder Chad Sayers discusses the revolutionary Vphone at the International CES 2010 show in Las Vegas!

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Saygus V1
The first mobile to offer low bandwidth two-way video calling on existing 2.5G Networks, the Saygus V Phone is a qwerty slider phone running the Android OS.

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Huffington Post review from CES of the V1:

It’s the first mobile phone in the U.S. market that allows low-bandwith, 2-way video calls. A “Best of Innovations” winner, 3G is not required. At the moment, this videoconferencing only works in the United States, though the company is working on certification worldwide.

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vPhone: The vPhone is a new promising gadget of 2010. The main reason this has made the top of the list is its ability to allow you to perform video calls from your cell phone. The Video Phone (vPhone) is being developed by Saygus a small firm that specializes in video-calling software. Verizon will be the first to carry a two-way video-conferencing phone complete with a large touch screen, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and a 3D accelerometer. This phone is meant to compete directly with the iPhone and to out-perform Droid (Droid is the current device Verizon is using for this market). The vPhone is set to be the first mobile device approved through Verizon’s Open Development initiative, a program designed to allow developers to build technologies to operate on the Verizon network. The vPhone from Saygus will not be available in stores but only through the Utah based company Saygus.

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VPhone uses low bandwidth technology to provide high resolution video calls.

Las Vegas, NV (Vocus/PRWEB ) January 9, 2010 – Saygus, Inc. premiered the Saygus VPhone™—an Android equipped smartphone with America’s first nationwide two-way video calling capability—at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The VPhone can be seen at the Saygus booths: Central 15029M and South 1 20547 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Expected to be available as a CDMA device with a major North American wireless carrier, the Saygus VPhone is an Android-based smartphone for consumers and businesses alike. It has two cameras— a 5 MP main camera with auto focus and flash and a VGA forward-facing camera for video calling – and provides a host of other features including WiFi, USB and Bluetooth tethering allowing up to eight devices, (ie laptops, MIDs) to connect as an access point, USB host and client capability, slide out keyboard with a large keypad and raised keys for fast and easy typing, larger battery to provide up to four hours of video calling and seven hours of talk time and screen resolution twice that of the iPhone.

Using the major cellular networks in the U.S., Saygus has achieved two-way cellular video calls at 24 to 30 frames per second (fps) in excellent resolution with its proprietary low bandwidth video calling technology. The company has tested its technology on other devices and other cellular networks implementing video calling at 2.5G EDGE data rates. Saygus plans on providing quality video calling to other devices and networks making video calling available to cell phone users around the globe.

VPhone features:

• Video Calling. Saygus VPhone includes Saygus’ proprietary video calling technology for the world’s first low bandwidth two-way cellular video calling.
• Tethering. WiFi, Bluetooth and USB tethering for up to eight devices.
• 1500 mAh Battery. Supports up to four hours of video calling and seven hours of talk time.
• QWERTY Slide-Out Keyboard. Large keyboard area with raised keys for ease of use.
• Multi Touch Screen. High resolution 3.5-inch 800 x 480 capacitive multi-touch capable screen.
• 624Mhz Marvell PXA310 processor.
• Dual Cameras. 5 MP main camera with auto focus and flash and VGA forward facing camera for two-way video calling.
• CDMA EVDO Rev A.
• USB Charging. Host and client capability.

“The Saygus VPhone is the first two-way cellular video calling phone in the U.S. and the only full-featured Android phone available with two-way video calling,” said Chad Sayers, CEO of Saygus. “It’s exciting to brush shoulders with all of the great wireless handset manufacturers here at CES and to see that the VPhone measures up to these other incredible mobile handsets.”

The VPhone won the prestigious “Best of Innovations” in the ‘Wireless Handsets’ category against other top smartphone makers Nov. 10, 2009 in New York.

The Saygus VPhone passed its FCC (Federal Communications Commission) certification Nov. 5, generating considerable buzz with its industry leading features, and is expected to be available in the United States soon.
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About Saygus
Founded in 1997, Salt Lake City, Utah-based Saygus, Inc. is a video calling technology developer currently launching America’s first two-way cellular video calling phone as an Android smartphone. Saygus expects to begin licensing its low bandwidth video calling technology to smartphone and feature phone makers soon with requests for their technology already planned in a handful of phones for the U.S. market during 2010. Saygus is operated by a seasoned group of executives including founder Chad Sayers, CEO; Tim Riker, former CTO of Lineo and Project Manager at Texas Instruments, CTO; Greg Merten, former VP and GM at HP’s Inkjet Cartridge Division; Ash Darwish, former VP at LG; and Krishna Rao, former CFO and Board member of Mitsubishi Silicon. Saygus is a privately funded company with the majority of its shareholders in Utah. www.saygus.com.

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It’s not easy to find an Android phone that hasn’t been churned out by the HTC factory. The Saygus Vphone is a smartphone from a Utah-based company that promises a nifty handset with one unique feature: the ability to make two-way video calls even on an EDGE network.

“We have designed our own proprietary video calling software that’s optimized so you can get three to four hours of video calling capability on extremely low bandwidths,” says Chad Sayers, founder and CEO of Saygus.

Video conferencing is still a novelty in smartphones. It can guzzle bandwidth and carriers have been hesitant to support the applications. Saygus says its video calling software can change that. It won’t bog down the network and can run 18-22 frames a second on Edge network and up to 30 frames a second on 3G. Saygus estimates that 5GB of bandwidth can support 10,000 minutes of video conferencing on the phone.

Saygus also hopes to partner with Skype to bring Skype video calling to the phone.

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