Socket Introduces New WLAN SDIO Cards
Socket delivers high throughput, low-power consumption and small form factor 802.11 a/b/g SDIO cards for industrial embedded and plug-in applications
Socket Mobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCKT), an innovative provider of mobile productivity products, today announced the development and delivery of new versions of its WLAN SDIO Cards—the Socket Go Wi-Fi!® P320 and P320X. The 802.11a/b/g SDIO cards are designed for use by corporate and industrial OEM customers worldwide in their embedded and plug-in applications.
The Socket Go Wi-Fi! P320 card has a built-in, optimized dual-band (2.4 and 5 GHz) antenna for plug-in applications, and the Socket Go Wi-Fi! P320X has two antenna connectors supporting antenna diversity for the best RF performance. The P320X is also the only Wi-Fi SDIO card on the market that serves as an industrial mountable solution providing secured insertion of the card inside industrial host devices.
"The new Socket Go Wi-Fi! P320 and P320X products add the 802.11a support opening cleaner, more usable channels in the noisy radio environment of the industrial marketplace," said Chang Xu, sr. product manager of Socket Mobile. "The new products also offer the benefits of an industrial operating temperature range, antenna diversity, improved range capability, receiver sensitivity, data throughput and power management all in the same size and form factor as their predecessors—the Socket Go Wi-Fi! P300 and P300X."
Availability
The Socket Go Wi-Fi! P320 and P320X are currently available to OEM customers with support of Windows Mobile 5 and 6, Windows CE 5.0 and 6.0, and via a third party Linux and Nucleus® operating systems. The P320 with Windows Mobile 5 and 6 support will also be available through distribution channels worldwide in May 2009. Both the P320 and P320X are certified under the regulatory domains of the US, Canada, Europe and Japan. Socket will be adding a security supplicant, connection and configuration management software and Cisco CCX support during the third quarter of 2009 through its e-Wi-Fi Companion software.
About Socket Mobile, Inc.
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. The company also offers OEM solutions. Socket is headquartered in Newark, California and can be reached at 510-933-3000 or www.socketmobile.com.
SOURCE: Socket Mobile, Inc.