The Soldier Flex PDA (SFPDA) has been successfully demonstrated at the Future Force Warrior's On-The-Move (OTM) exercises in Fort Dix, NJ. The SFPDA, developed in collaboration with industrial design firm Artisent, Inc. (Boston, MA) and advanced display technology firm E-Ink Corp. (Cambridge, MA), uses next-generation flexible display technology from the U.S. Army Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University.

The entire SFPDA has typical power consumption well under 1W, including the display and InHand's PXA270-based Fingertip4 CPU board, along with Ethernet, USB, Bluetooth, and keypad interfaces. This reduced-power consumption is due to the unique low-power characteristics of electronic paper displays and InHand's patented BatterySmart system software. The result: a ruggedized handheld with over 6 hours of run-time weighing in at less than one pound.

The SFPDA will be displayed at InHand's booth (#1213) at the Embedded Systems Conference at Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA (Sept. 19, 20). Click here for more information on the Natick Soldier RDE Center. For more information on Fingertip4, BatterySmart, and InHand's portfolio of power-reducing hardware and software technologies, visit www.inhand.com.