A family of handheld terminals that can combine the functionality of a PDA, a cell phone, and a personal media player into a package much smaller than a tablet PC. These products provide a strong platform for application software designers, system integrators, OEMs, as well as end-users with application development teams.
These terminals are unique wireless-oriented solutions with advanced communications and security technology. They are aimed at a wide range of industries, including, but not limited to, education, finance, government, healthcare, hospitality, logistics, retail, security and telecommunications.
Designed to supply the worldwide market's high and growing demand for open architecture-based wireless hardware platforms, these products are based on a single board computer (SBC) specifically designed and developed by Above-Net. Powered by the Intel XScale processor family to fulfill the need of high power at low cost platform, Above-Net products run under Microsoft CE.NET or Linux operating systems, ensuring the required friendly environment for application developers and simplified porting of existing customer applications.
Together with a built-in range of communications options such as WIFI, Bluetooth, GSM/GPRS, CDMA and Ethernet, compatibility with all kind of magnetic and smart cards, interfaces for a wide variety of peripherals, biometric and other transaction oriented devices.
Various LCD panel options are offered up to a full color VGA screen with touch panel and all units incorporate AlwaysUp technology which orients the displayed data to be viewed by the user independent of the physical orientation of the unit – vertically or horizontally.
Another special feature is the embedded finger print reader which can provide extra security for sensitive mobile applications such as medical or financial data communication.