Honeywell has announced the retirement of the Dolphin 9900 and Dolphin 7600. In both cases, orders will only be accepted until either Feb 29th 2012 or June 30 2012 (Depending on SKU) with final orders shipping before June 30 2012 or Dec 30 2012.

Intermec has announced that the Cx70 line (CN70, CN70e, CK70, and CK71) are being updated with 1GHz processors and Qualcomm Gobi 3000 celluar modules.

Z-Space Technologies will be closing Friday Dec 23rd at Noon, and closed Monday Dec 26th. In addition, we will be closing at Noon on Friday Dec 30th and closed on Monday Jan 2nd. Happy Holidays!

Read the latest ITScriptNet News for December here!

We will be closed Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday. Happy Thanksgiving and we will be back in the office on Monday morning!

Honeywell has announced a new device, the Dolphin 7800. This device has a 3.5 inch VGA display, a 2-D Imager, and WiFi and WWAN radios. More details are available here.

Microsoft has announced some information about the future of Windows on embedded devices. Apparently the next version of embedded Windows will be called Windows Embedded Standard v.Next. Windows Embedded Compact 7 will be available until then. this appears to be a path towards merging Windows CE and Windows Desktop in Windows 8. This makes sense since Windows 8 will support ARM processors, so a version that can run on hand-held devices and tablets seems logical.

We are excited to finally release ITScriptNet V3.2b. This verison has been a long time coming, and adds support for a large number of new devices. These include:

• Cipherlab CP40 and CP45 device
• Datalogic Falcon X3, both CE6 and WM6.5
• Datalogic ELF, both CE6 and WM6.5
• Honeywell Dolphin 99EX
• Honeywell Dolphin 6100/6500 Windows Mobile
• Honeywell Dolphin 6000
• Intermec Cx70 line
• Motorola ES-400
• Opticon H-15, H-16, H-19 and H-21
• Opticon 8x00 series devices
• Unitech PA500
• Unitech PA690

There are also a number of bug fixes and new features in this version. For all of the details, check the Knowledge Base article.

Datalogic has announced a new Vehicle-mount computer, called the Rhino. This computer features a 640x480 (Landscape) display, Windows CE 6.0, and Wifi. An Ethernet port is optional.

Honeywell has just announced a color imager for the Xenon product line. This imager will support taking color images and scanning colored barcodes. At this time, the imager appears to be supported on the scanner line only, but may make its way into the Mobile Computing line in the future.

Everyone is talking about how Google is purchasing Motorola Mobility. This is the consumer-handset side of Motorola, not the Enterprise business that make portable data collectors and mobile computers. However, Android appears to be coming to the Data Collection market, so we won't be surprised if Android starts appearing on Enterprise devices soon.

Honeywell has announced that they are starting the first Developer Program for Android in the AIDC market. We've been expecting data collection manufacturers to start introducing Android-based devices, and this is the first public announcement we've seen about it. We are considering how we want to support Android in ITScriptNet, and we will let you know our plans as we go.

If you are attending Vartech 2011 in Miami, stop by and see us! We hope to see you there!

We have received a Unitech PA690 and a PA550 and we have tested them with ITScriptNet. Both devices work great with the existing Unitech Windows Mobile 5/6 client! We are adding them to the Program Designer as selectable devices, since their screen sizes are different from the standard 240x320 (portrait). The PA690 has a WVGA 640x800 (portrait) display, and the PA550 has a 320x240 (landscape) display.

Unitech has introduced the PA960 Mobile Computer. This device has an 800x480 WVGA display, which is the first we've seen with that resolution. We will test to see if our existing WM6 client will run on this device.

Honeywell has announced that they are purchasing EMS, parent company of LXE. This adds another line of Mobile Computers to the Honeywell family. One of the unique offerings of LXE is a Freezer unit line, which include heating elements to run in very cold environments.

Honeywell has introduced a new device, called the Dolphin 6000. This device is an extremely small form-factor device, similar to a smartphone, but with a laser scan engine.

We have a device in house and are working on ITScriptNet support.

Honeywell has launched the ISV Store we discussed a few weeks ago. We have several products listed on the store, and we will be adding more as time goes on. You can read the press release here.