Amstrad Plc’s Dancall Telecom A/S yesterday launched its first new products since it was acquired, a range of digital cellular telephones with call forwarding, barring and waiting, call on-hold and multi-party calls, with 1.1 hours of talk time, 18 hours on standby; an extended battery raises those to three hours and 44 hours. The company also added a multi-cellular feature to its Dancall 6000 cordless phone to work off interconnected base stations. The company claims volume commitments in the UK, Germany and other European countries. Also reportedly in the works at Amstrad is a new version of its PenPad handheld. The InfoPad has built-in diary, to-do list, address book and notes programs, but can also receive and store text messages from a paging service. It has a touch-screen keyboard, and handwriting recognition is claimed to be improved. A PCMCIA card will also link the InfoPad to a cellular network for sending facsimile messages or electronic mail. It is due to be ready in the autumn.
