Product: H50 wireless POS terminal
Company: Blue Bamboo

The wood of the bamboo plant is versatile and affordable; it originated in Asia and is now available all over the world. The company Blue Bamboo leverages this concept with its new wireless point-of-sale terminal, the H50.

The terminal body is bright blue so it looks very different from most of the other wireless terminals on the market today.

The H50 is a handheld/handover product offering several connectivity options. A serial port enables users to connect to their mobile phone to access a network. Other options include a GPRS/GSM module (coming in Q2 2005), and CDMA connectivity (also available in 2005).

Two Lithium-ion re-chargeable batteries power the terminal, which can operate two days and process 200 transactions without needing to recharge the batteries.

The device comes with an integrated PED-compliant PIN pad and thermal printer, a track 1 and 2 magnetic stripe reader, 512 KB SRAM, 1 MB flash memory and a 32-bit java RISC processor.

The company says the H50 processor is up to 40 times faster than other Java processors.

The H50 was designed using the global platform device/small terminal interoperability platform (GPD/STIP) standards. These are open, Java-based standards that enable multi-application support without needing to re-certify applications and also a fast application development environment.

The terminal comes pre-loaded with Visa's SmartPOS application. Blue Bamboo said the product is priced at $199.

Based in Shanghai, China, Blue Bamboo is a wholly owned subsidiary of Shera International. The company is also affiliated with Shera Technology, a manufacturer of POS terminals and peripherals that has been in existence for 12 years.

Blue Bamboo unveiled the terminal in November at the CARTES 2004 conference in Paris. The company is looking for distributors of the H50, which will be available in the United States in the first quarter of 2005.

Blue Bamboo
+86-21-5308-4181 ext. 319
E-mail: sales@bluebamboo.com
www.bluebamboo.com