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Sceptre
Introduces Their Lightweight, Wireless X-Pad
October
15, 2001, City of Industry, CA
– Sceptre is offering a lightweight, portable
solution to taking your business out of the office
and with you virtually anywhere you go.
The X-Pad
is the latest product to emerge from Sceptre’s
award winning line of products.
“With Sceptre’s remarkable history of
manufacturing world class touch screen panels as
well as award winning notebooks, we saw it fit
that we came up with a product that will combine
the two and further increase productivity and
portability.” states Stephen Liu, President and
CEO of Sceptre Technologies.
The X-Pad eliminates the necessity to jot
down data and then transfer them into desktops or
notebooks, giving you wireless capabilities for
catering to your needs in half the required time.
The unit also provides wireless wide-area
network (WWAN) connectivity capabilities for
mobile professionals.
Users
can input their data by tapping a stylus pen on an
on-screen keyboard or by using a handwriting
recognition program installed in the X-Pad.
Weighing only 2.4 pounds, the handheld PC
is powered by an Intel StrongARM 1110 processor,
displays a bright 800 X 600 resolution on an 11
inch TFT screen, supports up to 32 MB Flash Rom
and 256 MB of memory on board, and runs on a long
life 10 hour lithium ion battery.
This slim-designed unit also comes with
Windows CE Handheld PC Professional Edition® with
Winword software and an IE 4.0 package built in to
assist the user.
For desktop usage, a mini-docking cradle
consisting of 4 Universal Serial Bus ports is also
included. An
exciting feature built into the unit is that it
can display portrait and landscape modes by just a
touch of a hot key.
With a retail price of $1,499 and
backed by Sceptre’s personal commitment to
provide the best quality and service of their
products, this unit will surely be one of the
front runners in the portable PC market.
Company
Background
Committed
to providing unparalleled products along with
world-class service, Sceptre’s reputation is
consistently reflected by the IT media’s great
reviews. Sceptre received Mobile Computing First
Class Award (September 2001), PC World Top
10 Monitors Award (February 2001), PC World
Top 15 Notebooks Award (November 2000 issue), Best
Buy awards from LAPTOP Magazine (October
and November 2000 issues) and Computer Shopper
(Oct, 2000 issue).
In April 2000, Mobile
Computing gave Sceptre’s Soundx notebook its
“First Class Award”. Government
Computer News rated Sceptre’s Soundx6600
“A+” for its strong overall performance in
April 2000. Sceptre’s
Soundx 5200 made the Top 10 and Top 15 Notebooks
list in PC
World’s November 1999 and January 2000
issues respectively. In October 1998, Computer
Reseller News
noted
the S6800 notebook’s “sizzling performance”
and recommended it to their readers. In September
1998, Mobile
Computing gave the FT15+ LCD flat panel their
“First Class Award”, and in July 1998, Byte
Magazine gave the BT15+ a four star rating.
At Comdex Canada ’98, Sceptre was awarded
the prestigious “Innovation Award” by Canadian
Computer Wholesaler.
The
Computer Paper gave the D73A CRT monitor their
“Overall Performance Award” in August 1998.
Computing Canada gave its Four-Star Rating to the FT15 LCD in March
1998 and a similar Four-Star Rating to the D97A
19-inch monitor in April 1998.
In August 1997, Sceptre’s P75a 17-inch
flat-square monitor won the “Technical
Excellence Award” from Canadian
Computer Wholesaler. Headquartered
in City of Industry, California, Sceptre
Technologies has factories in Taiwan and China
with warehouses throughout North America.
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