Intermec Rugged PC Ships with Qualcomm Technology

(Product News, 20 Aug 2009)

Intermec announced that the CN50 rugged mobile computer, equipped with Qualcomm technology, is now shipping to customers worldwide. Intermec collaborated with Qualcomm to develop the 3G wireless WAN Flexible Network™ radio. The combination of the computer’s quad band radio and multi-processor architecture provides superior computing performance, communication speeds and low battery consumption.
Intermec’s Flexible Network Radio is highly optimized for mobile workers and allows the CN50 to support both voice and data exchange with high quality cell phone and network connections.
The cornerstone of the Flexible Network Radio is Qualcomm‘s dual-core, dual-mode chipset, the Mobile Station Modem™ (MSM™) MSM7600™ solution. This chipset contains a 526MHz applications processor running Windows Mobile 6.1 and also features an ARM9 communications processor, which supports 3G voice and data in GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS and CDMA2000® technologies. The MSM7600 chipset enables the CN50 to operate on frequencies supported by almost every major world network carrier.
Responding to the industry’s new ruggedized CN50 by Intermec, Mark Jerger, Vice President of Business Development for Qualcomm’s Corporate Engineering Services, said: “Using a single hardware configuration, Qualcomm’s low power MSM7600 chipset is flexible in that it supports both UMTS and CDMA2000 technologies. Having technology versatility and network operator choice is especially important in enterprise and vertical markets where ruggedized computers such as the CN50 are sold.”