The Motorola MC 75
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Motorola refers to this device as EDA, short for Enterprise Digital Assistant. The device is meant for road warriors such as courier guys, on-field bank executives, security official, warehouse managers and other professionals whose work is spread across in an enterprise. Looks a bit heavier as compared to the similar devices, the device weighs close to half a kilo. The reason behind this is it rugged body. Motorola claims that the device can survive drops from 5 feet high, and is dust and water resistant (IP54 rating). Its performance that can be dropped from the 5 feet, water resistant and dust resistant has been confirmed by several customers/users, there is no problem occurs at all. The device continued to work very fantastic without any problem. The touchscreen device comes with Xscale processor, 128 MB RAM and 256 MB Flash, integrated A-GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11 a/b/g wireless LAN support, IrDA connectify and microSD card slot. It has support for 3G i.e. HSDPA and CDMA-EVDO as well as 2G (EDGE and GPRS).

The devices that available are mostly running with Microsoft Windows 6.1. It also has a high resolution auto focus 2MP camera, which enables field executives take photograph of the perspective customers. While opening accounts on the field itself, device also has a bar code scanner capable of reading 1D as ell as 2D barcodes. MC75 also has support for push-to-talk and voice dialing over wireless WAN as well as WLANs. So, the device can also be used in a walkie-talkie style.
In addition to the standard one year warranty, Motorola also offers its customers an option of 1, 3 or 5 year service packages. Under these packages, Motorola provides cover against accidental damages and provide software platform upgrades. Motorola also offers various accessories for the device such as mobility payment module, magnetic stripe reader etc. However, you need to shell out extra for these. Besides, Motorola also provides few utilities and developer tools to help users get started in building the application to work with MC75.


