That is actually not a "new" idea for Symbol. I work for a grocery chain and one of our stores used to have a system like that, but it was very old. I don't even think it was 2 mb wireless. We have since taken it out, but the customers absolutely loved it when it was there. As far as Symbol making "cool" handhelds - yeah, they're cool as long as you don't care about them functioning reliably. We have thousands of their 6846 PDT units and the failure rate on them has been 20%-50% over the past 2 years of use. And of course, their solution to our unhappiness with this product is "Upgrade to our new PocketPC device!" Which, while I understand that their job is to try to sell us more stuff, is an extremely unhelpful suggestion. We'd be happier if the stuff they sold us initially worked the way it was supposed to.
Oh, you took the words right out of my mouth. In my own experience with Symbol, while they generally do deliver eventually, it's rarely when they say it's going to be. One product in particular that my company purchased from them ( This 802.11b device) was delivered well over a year late, and when we got it, it wouldn't work with our (Cisco) wireless backbone. So while this device UPS is getting sounds pretty cool, I am rather skeptical that the rollout will be on schedule.
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That is actually not a "new" idea for Symbol. I work for a grocery chain and one of our stores used to have a system like that, but it was very old. I don't even think it was 2 mb wireless. We have since taken it out, but the customers absolutely loved it when it was there.
As far as Symbol making "cool" handhelds - yeah, they're cool as long as you don't care about them functioning reliably. We have thousands of their 6846 PDT units and the failure rate on them has been 20%-50% over the past 2 years of use. And of course, their solution to our unhappiness with this product is "Upgrade to our new PocketPC device!" Which, while I understand that their job is to try to sell us more stuff, is an extremely unhelpful suggestion. We'd be happier if the stuff they sold us initially worked the way it was supposed to.
Let's see if Symbol can deliver.
Oh, you took the words right out of my mouth. In my own experience with Symbol, while they generally do deliver eventually, it's rarely when they say it's going to be. One product in particular that my company purchased from them ( This 802.11b device) was delivered well over a year late, and when we got it, it wouldn't work with our (Cisco) wireless backbone.
So while this device UPS is getting sounds pretty cool, I am rather skeptical that the rollout will be on schedule.