InHand Electronics Enhances Low-Power Features with Fingertip4 Handheld Platform
Boston, MA, September 12th, 2005—InHand
Electronics, Inc., a leading developer of low-power handheld and
wireless device platforms, today introduced its updated Fingertip4
board-level platform at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston.
New Features
Pricing and Availability
“We remain committed to offering the most advanced handheld
technology platforms available,” said Andrew Girson, InHand Electronics
Chief Technology Officer (CTO). “The Fingertip4 platform offers a small
board with increased power control and efficiency to support
high-performance handheld devices and robust applications.”
About InHand Electronics, Inc.
InHand Electronics, Inc. is a leading provider of low-power embedded
system-level software and hardware technologies to Original Equipment
Manufacturers. InHand provides run-time power management software and
hardware/software reference platforms to developers of handheld and
wireless devices, such as cellular telephones, PDAs, wearable
computers, and smart sensors. The company’s products are used in a
variety of industries, including military, healthcare, entertainment,
and instrumentation. InHand’s Fingertip, Elf, and BatterySmart products
are built on industry-leading technologies such as Intel’s XScale
microprocessors and Linux and Microsoft’s Windows CE operating systems.
The company's headquarters are in Rockville, Maryland. For more
information, please visit the company web site at www.inhand.com.
Product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.
Incorporating Intel’s XScale-based
PXA270 microprocessor, the Fingertip4 is about the size of a credit
card and incorporates a variety of new features including USB Host
capabilities, and an advanced external interconnect to support the
integration of additional electronics. This new interconnect
architecture provides a variety of high-performance parallel and serial
interfaces to hardware and software developers, increasing the range of
devices for which Fingertip4 is ideal.
Power Management System
Fingertip4
leverages InHand’s award-winning BatterySmart power management software
suite to facilitate control of performance and power consumption, by
allowing greater responsiveness to voltage and frequency changes.
InHand’s latest power management advances are available in Fingertip4
with a new power supply architecture that boosts the efficiency of
power delivery and incorporates real-time voltage adjustment features
to extend the battery life of handheld devices. This new approach will
allow Fingertip4 to incorporate features that give software developers
more direct control of performance and battery life.
New Fingertip4
development platforms will be available from InHand Electronics in
October for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows CE and Linux operating systems.
Fingertip4 development platforms start at $2,995 and the Fingertip4 is
available for volume purchase.
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