The company Winmate has a device announced that Android 2.3, Windows CE 6.0 and Windows Mobile 6.5 as the operating system can run. It is a rugged device, which is resistant to shock and water.
With the IP 67 certification, should the housing of the Winmate S430T are resistant to dust and is even water to a depth of one meter is no problem. In addition, the unit must have a fall of over a metre without effort be able to endure.
In the case running an Omap3530 processor from Texas Instruments at a clock speed of 720MHz. The display diagonal is 4.3 inches and the resolution is 800×480 pixels. Furthermore, 512MB of ram and same amount of storage memory available. Photos can be shot with a 5-megapixel camera. There are ten hardware buttons on board, but there is no full qwerty keyboard; text input through the touchscreen.
Interestingly enough, the rugged smartphone three operating systems onboard; Android 2.3, Windows CE 6.0 and Windows Mobile 6.5 can be rotated.
An additional charge is 3g support available. In addition, you can opt for either a rfid reader or a barcode scanner. However, it is not possible to have a rfid reader and a barcode scanner at the same time to be installed.
It is unknown what the S430T should cost and when Winmate, the device is released. It is also unknown whether the smartphone comes to the Netherlands.
