Innovations in both handheld and truck-mounted terminals have been announced by LXE.

The MX3X takes LXE's ground-breaking MX3 range, with its distinctive landscape-format colour display, into the era of Windows CE .NET, opening up extra opportunities for integrated programming using Microsoft's .NET Compact framework. The new version also features Intel's latest 400MHz XScale processor in place of the 133MHz SA-1110 of the original MX3 CE.

Like its forerunner, the MX3X is designed for both truck-mounted and handheld use, and retains the IP66 damage resistance rating of the original.

Also now sporting the CE .NET operating system in its Windows Mobile 2003 version is LXE's MX6 handheld, which also gains a new range of standard, long and advanced long-range integrated scanning options.

 

The MX6 comes with a 400MHz XScale processor, plus 64MB of RAM and 32MB of non-volatile flash RAM. It comes with a full alphanumeric keypad and oversized colour, quarter-VGA display with touch screen.

The VX5 truck-mount is a rather different proposition, coming with an Intel Mobile Pentium processor rated at 900MHz and 256 or 500MB of memory. It boasts a large 12.1in TTF SVGA colour display and a full QWERTY keyboard, and is offered with Windows 2000 Professional or XP as standard. It looks rather like a laptop PC - a comparison LXE is keen to draw - and it is described as 802.11g-ready.