Tuesday, August 2 2005
NEC Infrontia will release an extreme version of a PDA - one that can come out of a 1.5 meter drop to concrete unscathed. With dust and water proof features, it is also compatible for gentler uses like reading RFID tags and QR codes.
The Pocket@i EX industrial-strength PDA will begin shipping in early September, and is expected to settle comfortable in medicine, distribution, and manufacturing sectors. This revamped version has an RFID tag reader and barcode/QR code scanner for industrial environments that require such features.
QR codes are widely used in Asia to encode information that will be decoded to text by most cellphones. They have been around for many years but have yet to be used in the west…
4 models will be on offer – 1D scanner (barcode), 2D scanner (QR code), RFID tag reader, and no scanner. An Intel PXA27x is the brains behind the PDA, and it comes with 64MB RAM and 64MB of ROM, as well as a 240 x 320 dot (3.5") display that is capable of displaying 65k colors. Its dimensions are 79 x 157 x 25mm (W x D x H), and it weighs around 290g (model without scanner), running on the Windows CE 5.0 platform.
Source:
http://www.ubergizmo.com
