PDA Phone combines Contact & Contactless card reader technology

NFC and smart card enabled PDA Phone with read and write capability

The AXIA A306 NFC and smart card enabled PDA Phone is designed for industrial applications but has the look and feel of a mobile phone. The phone is built on the Microsoft® Windows® Mobile 6.0 and has a card reader that can to read with and write on contact-based and contactless smartcards.

The mobile handheld PDA device supports the ISO7816-1/2/3 standard contact-based Smartcards and ISO14443 and Mifare Contactless Smartcards. The NFC is a secure short range, low-bandwidth wireless technology. It operates in half-duplex mode in an unregulated band at a frequency of 13.56 MHz. It offers easy, automatic wireless connection without the need of logins and can transfer any kind of data between electronic devices at 106, 212 or 424 kbit/s.

As the Smartcard-reader module is incorporated into the GSM/GPRS mobile phone, it has bi-directional data transfer possibility through a GSM Data Call / GPRS. This can be started by the phone or by the host system. If the host initializes the transfer, there is no action necessary by the phone user in order to get or collect the stored data from transaction memory. The AXIA is pocket-sized, with dual functions, GSM/GPRS connectivity makes it a highly appropriate device to host a wide range of applications.