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Socket Mobile, Inc., an innovative provider of mobile productivity products, reportedly has introduced new 802.11 a/b/g Wireless LAN products designed for corporate and industrial OEM customers to use in their embedded and plug-in applications.

 

The new products, which come in three form factors, will be available worldwide including modules, Secure Digital and CompactFlash cards.

 

The products comes with additional features of extended operating temperature range and antenna diversity, and have improved range capability, receiver sensitivity, data rate and power management as compared to the previous 802.11 b/g products.

 

Socket says it will also offer driver support for Windows Mobile 5 and 6, Windows CE 5.0 and 6.0 platforms.

 

Linux will be supported through Socket industry software partners. Socket will also offer security supplicant, connection and configuration management software, and Cisco (News - Alert) CCX compatibility.

 

“The new WLAN 802.11 a/b/g products are designed to work in noisy radio environments and in a range of vertical industry markets,” said Chang Xu, Sr. OEM Product Line Manager at Socket Mobile. “These new WLAN products demonstrate Socket’s commitment to continue delivering high quality products with demanding specifications. They will enable us not only to supply our existing customers with exciting new capabilities, but to expand our customer base into new markets. We continue to offer stable products with life cycles suitable for corporate deployments, feature rich software, and superior customer service.”

 

Socket supplies its OEM customers with WLAN and Bluetooth modules and cards and feature-rich software for use in industrial environments. Socket makes mobility computing and productivity work. The company is a one-stop supplier of mobile computing hardware systems, offering a handheld mobile computer specifically designed for business mobility use and an extensive portfolio of essential mobile data collection and networking peripherals that enable mobile automation and productivity increases.

 

Socket Mobile, Inc. recently announced that El Rio Community Health Center, an Arizona community health center serving more than 80,000 low-income patients in 2007, chose the Socket Secure Digital Scan Card, a small bar code scanner that plugs into a smartphone, for its prescription delivery program.

 

To achieve strict accuracy and accountability required for prescriptions, El Rio employs a tracking solution that enables the health center to confirm delivery, track the package’s path and obtain signatures and comments upon delivery – all remotely and in real-time.

 

The Socket SD Scan Cards allow delivery drivers to scan prescription bar codes at all points from any of El Rio’s four pharmacies to patients receiving home prescription delivery services across Tucson. El Rio’s complete mobile solution uses Socket SD Scan Card attached to Palm Treo smartphone loaded with POD Verify software.

 

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