The best mobile devices are those that are also good for the planet. If you are searching for the best mobility strategy, it’s essential to consider environmental impact and choose effective yet sustainable solutions.

Eco-friendly Zebra mobile devices are the ideal solution for protecting the environment and reducing your carbon footprint. Barcodes provides a wide range of products expertly designed for sustainability, from package design to battery consumption levels to recycling programs.

Eco-Friendly Zebra Mobile Devices to Power Your Operations

Although people may think sustainable products have a shorter lifespan, Barcodes carries products engineered to last and withstand the rigors of everyday use. Procuring long-lasting, quality products, such as eco-friendly Zebra mobile devices, is a simple step manufacturers can take to protect the environment.

Since Zebra devices last much longer than typical consumer devices, organizations can be confident knowing they are saving resources, preventing unnecessary waste, and ultimately helping to protect the planet.

Barcodes offers the right eco-friendly Zebra mobile devices to fit your needs. If you are looking for an advanced Android mobile computer, the MC33X series is a lightweight, versatile handheld computer expertly designed to improve workforce productivity and efficiency.

If you need rugged tablets, the ET4X series features thin, light enterprise tablets built with integrated scanning for fast, accurate data capture. Both series boast sustainable features and are:

• Equipped with Green battery technology
• Designed with superior power efficiency and lightning-fast charging
• Free from environmental toxins
• Packaged sustainably

Go Zebra Buy-Back Program

When you’re ready to upgrade to new equipment, consider using Zebra’s convenient Buy-Back Program, Go Zebra.  This environment-friendly, cost-savings program, allows them to securely return pre-owned Zebra devices, thereby reducing harmful landfill waste (ask a Barcodes Rep how companies also get cashback for their old equipment!).

Because batteries are such a hazard to landfills, Barcodes can help you choose mobility devices with green battery technology, such as the TC57x.  This improved battery has a longer lifespan, so you purchase fewer batteries as backups and fewer batteries end up in landfills.

Need Help Choosing Eco-Friendly Zebra Mobile Devices?

Barcodes offers a wide range of environmentally safe and secure recycling services and comprehensive product recycling information specific to each product.

Selecting the right devices that will work for your business AND protect the environment is easy with Barcodes – we are here to help you find the right device that’s also good for the planet! Get started today by contacting a Barcodes Mobility Expert online or calling us at (855) 233-2917.

It is crucial for every company to keep workers and managers connected and provide them with real-time data updates when they need it. To facilitate this, you need mobile devices, such as the Honeywell RT10 rugged tablet, that not only suit your workflow, but also your workforce.

When workers choose not to use a device to its full capabilities, the advantages of connectivity, data capture, and productivity/efficiency are not realized. The RT10 is luckily incredibly easy to adopt. It works just like a Windows or Android tablet, with a protective design much better suited for industrial environments.

With its bright, high-resolution, 10.1-inch display, perfect balance of ruggedness and lightweight design, and integrated barcode scanner, the Honeywell RT10 improves worker productivity while maintaining a low total cost of ownership. The RT10 rugged tablet is ready to be used all day long with standard 8-hour or extended 16-hour hot-swappable batteries.

The Honeywell RT10 is ready to be integrated into your daily workflow and is perfect for rapid user adoption.

Shop the Honeywell RT10 online or contact your Barcodes, Inc. Account Manager for more information on the best rugged tablet solution for your organization.

Extreme environments won’t hinder your operations with Zebra’s VC8300 vehicle-mounted computer. With an ultra-rugged design, the device withstands just about anything a warehouse. 

Zebra’s VC8300 is the ultimate ultra-rugged Android vehicle-mounted computer with both keyboard and touchscreen capabilities. The VC8300 can go everywhere your operators need to go, inside the warehouse, out in the yard, on the loading dock, and even in the freezer. With the VC8300, you can re-use all of your existing accessories, minimizing the cost to upgrade. Its 8-inch display provides plenty of space for graphics-intensive, interactive applications, while best-in-class display resolution and brightness ensure easy viewing in any lighting condition. 

Since the same platform is shared with Zebra’s rugged handheld and wearable mobile devices, any worker can use any device with practically no training, providing the flexibility to deploy and redeploy workers to address changing workloads.

Zebra Technologies designs products to support a variety of industrial business needs. The VC8300 drives productivity with:

• Android Migration Simplicity – Run your Terminal Emulation (TE) apps, right out of the box.
• Advanced WiFi Technologies  – Extended WiFi range and Bluetooth 5.0 with twice the speed.
• Ultimate Flexibility and Convenience – Mount in virtually any material handling vehicle and adjust on the spot
• Ultimate Ultra-Rugged Design – Ready for all environments, including extreme cold or heat and easy to hear in even the loudest environments.

Once you realize the power of the VC8300, you won’t turn back.

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Rugged, versatile, and adaptable, Zebra delivers high performance vehicle-mounted computers to withstand any warehouse environment. Contact us today to see how you can bring a new level of mobility to your growing business.

In modern warehouses, manufacturing and freight facilities, there’s no room for any downtime in your operations. You need to keep products and materials moving. Honeywell’s new Thor VM1A vehicle mounted computer can help keep forklift operators locate and move products quickly and efficiently throughout your facility.

Built on Honeywell’s Mobility Edge platform, the Android based Thor VM1A is designed to have an extended product lifecycle, minimizes downtime, and deliver a lower total cost of ownership. Engineered with many of the same easy to use and maintain features of the popular Thor VM1 and CV41 models of vehicle mobile computers, the new VM1A drives an integrated approach to assist with deployment, performance, and the life cycle of your device.

The Smart Dock feature enables users to quickly shift vehicle- mounted computers between vehicles without touching of the cabling, to maximize efficiency and uptime. Built for challenging environments, the field replaceable front panel allows staff by quickly swap out to fix any touchscreen or keyboard failures instead of swapping out the whole device. It saves valuable time and maintenance costs by leveraging in- house staff to service touchscreen or keyboard failures. The Thor VM1A is also forward compatible with support from Android O to Android R,and features extended security update support for up to two years to future proof and maximize investment.

Features:

• Processor: 2.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 octa-core
• Operating System: Android 8 (Oreo), upgradable through Android R
• 8 inch display with full 64-key QWERTY keyboard with number pad
• WLAN and Bluetooth connectivity
• IP 66 seals out moisture and particle intrusion
• Smart Dock enables mounting and removal in seconds
• Field replaceable front panel to quicken repair turn around
• Ignition control feature that helps manage power, saving start up time and extend vehicle battery life.
• Optional screen defroster for cold storage option and freezer environment

With the mobile solutions ever changing, the Honeywell VM1A vehicle mounted mobile computer delivers advancements in managing operations in the most demanding environments. Get your supply chain up to speed, improve productivity, decrease downtime, and maximize your return on investment. Contact us if you have any questions or would like to learn how the VM1A can help you enhance your daily operations.

The next generation vehicle mount computer is here with the Rhino II. The Rhino II is aimed at factory and warehouse applications, in-vehicle applications requiring a rugged computer, and fixed applications on the factory floor where a rugged and sealed computer is mandatory. The Vehicle Mount Computer comes in two sizes a 10″ and 12″ display. The Rhino II is a dedicated freezer-rated model with integrated display heater allowing for the vehicle computer to be used in and out of cold storage.

Datalogic’s vehicle computer is tailored for warehouse management by increasing productivity through reduced errors during receiving, put-away, picking, and shipping activities. The Rhino II comes equipped with an internal isolated power supply and ignition sense to automatically control the power and an optional battery backup for the best protection against data loss. The Rhino II has the option of Microsoft or Android(coming soon) operating systems. Comes with an anti-glare multi-touch screen with glove support.

Rhino II Features:

• Choice of Microsoft or Android (coming soon) Operating Systems
• 10 inch or 12 inch high resolution color display
• Anti-glare multi-touch screen, with gloves support
• WLAN: IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n, CCX v4
• Bluetooth Wireless Technology v4.0
• Wired Ethernet (GbE) included
• Sealed to IP65/IP67 protection class
• Wide operating temperature range from -20 to 55 degrees C / -4 to 131 degrees F (Freezer 10 inch model to -30 degrees C / -22 degrees F)
• Tethered and cordless bar code scanner support
• External ABCD, QWERTY and software keyboard options
• Wavelink Powered with pre-installed and pre-licensed Wavelink Avalanche and Terminal Emulation (WEC7 models)
• EASEOFCARE Service Plans offer a wide range of service options to protect your investment, ensuring maximum productivity and ROI

Disruptions in the supply chain can be costly for businesses, and in today’s business world it’s either you adapt or get left behind. One product that can help your business adapt and at the same time give you a significant competitive advantage is the Thor VM3 Vehicle-Mount Computer. The Thor VM3 comes with Smart Dock which delivers immediate impact savings on support and maintenance costs. The cost savings from the Smart Dock come as a result of all the maximized efficiency that allows users to undock the computer from one forklift and redock it on another vehicle in a matter of seconds. This helps the workers adapt as the workload changes throughout the day or week.  A field-replaceable front panel reduces your capital and maintenance cost by integrating two of the most wear and abuse prone components, the keyboard and the touchscreen, into a user-replaceable part all with the simple use of a screwdriver.

This Honeywell vehicle-mount computer has an IP66 rated design and was designed to withstand all the vibrations and shocks that is generally created when a forklift is in operation. Safety is also a big proponent of the Thor VM3 with a screen blanking option that restricts driver access to the screen when the vehicle is moving to comply with the highest safety standards. The rugged vehicle-mount computer was made to withstand multiple environments from dry goods to cold storage, indoors or outdoors, and in-premise or in intermodal facilities. The Thor VM3 comes with the Intel x86 architecture and Dual Core 1.5GHz processor that enable superior performance with data-intensive applications.

For any questions or a quote on any of your computing needs contact us at Barcodes, Inc.

Why Tablets and Purpose Built Forklift Mounted Computers Are Not Interchangeable

Tablet computing is one of the fastest-growing categories of consumer electronics and enterprise IT alike. The buzz is leading many businesses to explore new uses for tablet computers, and some are finding their way into evaluation trials on forklifts and other vehicle applications in the distribution center. With their large screens and available Windows operating systems, tablets can seem quite similar to the forklift-mounted computers that are widely used today. They can also be taken off the forklift and used on the floor, which some organizations find intriguing.

However, tablets should not be considered drop-in replacements for purpose-built forklift mounted terminals because there are several major differences between the product categories. If you are considering using tablet computers on forklifts, it is important to know these differences and how they may impact operations. Careful evaluation will highlight compromises in integration and everyday use.

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Meeting the physical demands of a warehouse environment, especially in the case of forklift use, can be a daunting task for most mobile computers and tablets. Many mobile devices may have a rugged outer case but dealing with vibration and misuse on a vehicle/forklift requires even more specific design changes few devices have.

Motorola offers a range of terminals designed for vehicle use and can handle every application from the warehouse to cold storage and even the outdoors. This infographic is a quick overview of the key Motorola vehicle terminals and their main features to get you started finding the right unit for your needs.

Wavelink has recently developed custom clients for the Intermec CV41, CV61, CK3R and CK3X fixed mount and handheld mobile computers enabling their Terminal Emulation and mobile device management software (Avalanche) to leverage the full capabilities of these recently announced computers.

These custom clients are available for download immediately via ScanNGo bar codes. PDF files containing the necessary ScanNGo bar codes are available from the Sales Resource tabs for the  following products: CV41, CK70, CK71, CN70/e, CN50, CK3A/B, CK3X/R, and CS40. These bar codes will enable the respective computer to download the Wavelink app and initialize it in demo mode.

For any assistance obtaining the demos or if you are looking for the right Intermec  mobile device for your application, contact us at Barcodes Inc.

Honeywell has announced the Thor VM2, its tenth generation vehicle-mount computer (VMC) that provides the mobile workforce with unprecedented flexibility and productivity.  Featuring a larger 9.7 inch XGA display screen, the Thor VM2 builds off the successful Thor VM1, utilizing breakthrough mobile technology to create immediate time savings and protection against unplanned disruptions in the supply chain.

Equipped with a field-replaceable front panel, the Thor VM2 integrates the two most damage-prone device components, the keyboard and touchscreen, into a user-replaceable part.  As a result, users can repair the most common forms of vehicle-mount computer malfunctions on the go, reducing maintenance cost and spare parts capital cost.

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