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Product￿Facts￿·￿Pocket￿LOOX￿600￿·￿Issue￿September￿2002￿

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Pocket￿LOOX￿is￿a￿powerful￿combination￿of￿a￿high-end￿PDA￿and￿modular￿connectivity￿concepts.

Due￿to￿an￿integrated￿Compact￿Flash￿(CF)￿Card￿slot￿type￿II￿and￿SD/MMCard￿slot￿it￿offers￿the￿user￿several￿connectivity￿ possibilities.￿The￿wide￿range￿of￿available￿CF￿Card￿Type￿II￿solutions￿on￿the￿market￿such￿as￿cameras,￿storage￿solutions,￿ GPS,￿WLAN￿and￿modem￿together￿with￿the￿synchronous￿usage￿of￿SD/MMCard￿storage￿solutions￿shows￿the￿advanced￿ possibilities.￿ On￿top￿Pocket￿LOOX￿is￿based￿on￿a￿modular￿concept.￿Modules￿like￿a￿2nd￿battery￿can￿be￿plugged￿onto￿the￿back￿of￿the￿ Pocket￿LOOX. All￿these￿solutions￿open￿the￿field￿for￿usage￿of￿Pocket￿LOOX￿as￿a￿business￿tool￿and￿not￿just￿for￿Personal￿Information￿ Management￿(PIM).￿Simply￿connect￿with￿BluetoothTM￿wireless￿to￿your￿notebook￿or￿desktop￿PC￿and￿synchronize￿calendar￿ entries,￿contacts,￿inbox,￿programs￿and￿files.￿Join￿a￿BluetoothTM￿hot￿spot￿and￿browse￿the￿web,￿look￿for￿new￿E-mails￿and￿get￿up-to-date￿information￿wherever￿you￿are.￿Insert￿a￿WLAN￿CF￿Card￿and￿roam￿through￿the￿company￿staying￿always￿connected.￿Due￿to￿its￿advanced￿concept,￿Pocket￿LOOX￿is￿prepared￿for￿@home,￿@move￿and￿@work￿requirements.￿

Communication:With￿integrated￿BluetoothTM￿module￿the￿communication￿to￿mobile￿phones,￿BluetoothTM￿enabled￿printers,￿

computers￿and￿other￿devices￿can￿be￿established￿in￿an￿easy￿manner.￿Surfing￿the￿Internet￿or￿connecting￿

to￿the￿company￿net￿is￿practicable￿with￿BluetoothTM,￿WLAN￿and￿other￿possibilities.￿Synchronization￿of￿

Pocket￿LOOX￿with￿the￿desktop￿system￿can￿be￿done￿also￿over￿BluetoothTM￿as￿over￿USB,￿serial￿cable￿or￿

IrDA.

PIM:With￿PocketOutlook￿a￿powerful￿organizer￿is￿embedded.￿Not￿only￿does￿it￿keep￿track￿of￿appointments,￿ with￿several￿reminder￿functions,￿it￿also￿manages￿contacts￿and￿tasks.￿

Information: Pocket￿LOOX￿is￿able￿to￿work￿with￿HTML/WAP￿based￿documents￿also￿with￿MS￿Word,￿text,￿SMS,￿E- mails,￿Adobe￿files￿and￿other￿documents.￿This￿ability￿gives￿the￿user￿a￿wide￿spectrum￿of￿information￿ mining￿and￿content￿viewing￿possibilities.￿￿

Applications: Pocket￿Outlook,￿PocketExcel￿and￿PocketWord￿are￿integrated￿into￿the￿OS,￿allowing￿document￿viewing￿ and￿editing￿while￿away￿from￿the￿PC.

Pocket￿LOOX￿is￿developed￿for￿advanced￿one-hand-usage.￿It￿comes￿in￿an￿industrial￿design￿(ID)￿and￿with￿an￿additional￿speed￿menu.￿

Other￿applications￿are￿amongst￿others￿Media-￿and￿Video￿player￿(for￿MP3￿and￿MPEG4)

Through￿the￿open￿nature￿of￿the￿PocketPC￿Operating￿System,￿many￿third-party￿applications￿such￿as￿car-navigation￿or￿database￿systems￿are￿available￿on￿the￿market.

Wireless￿

Technology: Bluetooth￿is￿integrated￿in￿Pocket￿LOOX￿as￿standard.￿If￿the￿integrated￿BluetoothTM￿functionality￿is￿not￿ needed￿or￿the￿use￿is￿prohibited,￿e.g.￿in￿aircrafts￿or￿hospitals￿or￿wherever￿radio￿interference￿could￿cause￿ problems,￿you￿can￿easily￿mechanically￿switch￿off￿the￿BluetoothTM￿module￿and￿continue￿using￿the￿ device.

In￿the￿integrated￿CF￿Card￿slot￿type￿II￿you￿are￿also￿able￿to￿use￿WLAN￿CF￿Cards￿to￿access￿shared￿ information￿without￿the￿need￿of￿any￿physical￿links.￿

With￿a￿GPRS￿plug-on￿module,￿which￿will￿be￿available￿in￿Q4/2002,￿Pocket￿LOOX￿even￿offers￿full￿mobile￿phone￿functionality￿and￿enables￿the￿user￿to￿access￿information￿anytime￿and￿anywhere.

Expandability: Through￿SD/MMCard:￿easy￿data￿exchange￿with￿digital￿cameras,￿MP3￿players￿etc. Through￿CF￿Card:￿a￿wide￿range￿of￿3rd￿party￿peripherals￿are￿available,￿ranging￿from￿GPS￿Satellite￿ antennas￿to￿barcode￿readers Through￿plug-on￿modules:￿connection￿to￿GSM/GPRS,￿expand￿the￿battery￿lifetime￿