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Rugged and Mobile is, believe it or not!, a company that sits at the heart of the rugged and mobile market.
I know, “Not another company blog trying to turn their blog into sales…” your saying. Well we like to think we’re different and in a world of costs and margin based selling we want to be a company that really helps people find what they need and then hopefully come to us when they need something. We are trully passionate about what we do, the market we’re in and we want to share our knowledge by creating a community of people that aren’t well served at the moment in the data capture and rugged market. We want you to tell us what you want and we’ll worry about delivering it.
Run by people who love technology, especially mobile and data capture, and how it enables business and changes our lives. This is our central News, review, how-to and tech blog that we hope will help people become more aware of rugged and mobile technology and hopefully you’ll learn and contribute a thing or two yourself. You might just be or become as passionate as us about mobile technology!
Now the business bit!
Hardware
We sell rugged and mobile hardware, anything from barcode scanners, RFID equipment to rugged PDA’s as well as enterprise level mobile phones like HTC or HP kit.
Software
We also provide software consultancy and services into the web and mobile markets. If you need a database driven Microsoft or iPhone application with a web presence then this is right up our street. Parcel delivery, warehouse, field data capture like sales apps are our forte, oh yes and we know a heck of a lot about GPS, RFID, Barcoding and data capture in general. We’re true mobile experts who want to share their knowledge and hopefully make a living out it too!
True Software Oriented Services
We also provide services that are trully service oriented solutions. Currently we’re developing a tracking and device management service that will be inexpensive, flex up and down with your needs and be market leading in terms of its functionality. Get involved as we develop and enhance our services.
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I would like a barcode reader than I can take into a thrift store and scan books with. Later download the ‘batched’ data to my PC for processing. I don’t know [understand] 1D, 2D, etc. but would like a recommendation from experts. PS I use a Sprint HTC Mogul smartphone daily so I’m familiar with Windows Mobile [6.1] technologies.
Hi Wallace
There are various options I think would suit you and in your case I think we’d look at some of the nice portable scanners designed specially for PDA scanning. I believe the Mogul is a rebranded HTC TytnII?
Firstly there is a nice small batch scanner from Opticon, the OPN2001 or OPN2002 allows you to scan, store and then batch upload via USB (OPN2001) or Bluetooth (OPN2002). Click here for more
Next there’s the Baracoda range of scanners which are designed specifically for scanning with either a PDA or laptop and come with all manner of connectivity and ruggedness options. The Road Runner series sounds perfect for your needs. Click her for more
Lastly I would recommend the Grabba range of products. These snap on to your PDA and give you instant scanning capabilities, although not strictly a batching solution. Grabba come with an API so you should be able to get going easily with doing something with the barcode scans or “wedging” them into an application like Mobile Excel or Word quite easily. Start Here and find the exact product by selecting your PDA first.
All of these products scan 1D barcodes but Road runner and Grabba also have 2D options or even RFID if you need that. However books use ISBN or UPC retail type barcodes so you should only need 1D if thats all you’re scanning.
Our eShop is alomost ready to go live now where you’ll be able to browse all of these products and check prices. In the meantime drop me an email if you’d like to know more on dave.kind@ruggedandmobile.com.
Regards
Dave