The new products have added key 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 will 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 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."

Samples for customer evaluation and design-in will be available by the end of Q3 2008. Volume production will start in Q4 2008. Please contact the Socket OEM sales team for more detailed product information and availability.

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.

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