EANS-News: Hoeft & Wessel goes Android (with photo)

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New Products

Subtitle: - First Android handheld for wholesale & retail
- skeye.dart with faster processor and more memory

Hannover/Germany, 23/01/2012. (euro adhoc) - Hoeft & Wessel now
offers the Android operating system on its mobile terminals for the
very first time. The skeye.dart model in convenient PDA format is now
also available with the Android version 2.3.6 (Gingerbread). This
makes the company the first in the industry to combine a mobile data
capture device for the special requirements of wholesale and retail
with the Android operating system. In the German retail sector Hoeft
& Wessel is the market leader for mobile terminals deployed in
enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

This provides the sector in question with clear benefits. By using
Android as the world´s leading Smartphone operating system on its
professional data capture devices in branch outlets and in warehouses
the wholesale and retail segment is provided with a consistent system
platform for customers and employees alike. Using the Android mobile
data capture device, employees are given unlimited access to
information of relevance to processes, e.g. from the ERP system. At
the same time, customers can receive further selected product
information online in the shop and immediately via their mobile or
smart phones. What is also conceivable, for instance, is the
availability of merchandise or a suitable recommendation of other
goods. This enhances the shopping experience for the customer.

Moreover, the skeye.dart is now also available in a high-end version
with roughly one third enhanced computing power, RAM twice as high
and faster UMTS/HSPA mobile telephony connection. Optionally equipped
with a numeric keypad or only a few input keys, the mobile data
capture device with its 89 mm (3.5") VGA touch screen provides a
future-proof platform even for the most demanding applications.

"With its first Android handheld, Hoeft & Wessel once again delivers
proof of its core expertise, namely Customising. We offer various
operating systems on our mobile terminals, depending on our
customers´ requirements," explains Dr Andreas Mueller, Head of
Development for mobile solutions at Hoeft & Wessel. The specialist
for mobile terminals, ticketing and parking systems has already
carried out a first live installation of the Android operating
system: the Dutch navy deploys the Hoeft & Wessel terminal skeye.dart
as a wireless communications system. With the freely programmable
operating system, especially secure communication on the ships is
possible both via voice and data transmission via a single handheld.

The benefits of Android are quite obvious: it has developed into a
leading Smartphone operating system with a correspondingly high level
of acceptance and familiarity amongst developers, offering manifold
applications and excellent, intuitive touch screen operation. An
open-source system reduces the dependency on market players, gives
software developers various programming options and it provides a
high degree of security.

Hoeft & Wessel AG assumes that the significance of the Android
operating system will also increase in the field of the professional,
particularly robust mobile terminals. Mueller: "We already are well
prepared for the future requirements at this stage, thus underscoring
our claim and sophistication as a technology leader."

Press kit with photos:
http://www.presseportal.de/pm/12945/hoeft_wessel_ag/

The Company Hoeft & Wessel is the leading IT and engineering
technology Group for ticketing, parking and mobile solutions in Great
Britain and Germany. Established in 1978 by the two entrepreneurs who
gave the company its name, the enterprise has developed into a group
of companies with sales revenues of more than EUR 90 million and a
workforce of 500 employees. Its main locations are Hannover, Germany,
and Swindon, west of London.

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Further inquiry note:
Arnd Fritzemeier
Tel.: +49-511-6102-300
E-Mail: PR@hoeft-wessel.com

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company: Höft & Wessel AG
Rotenburger Str. 20
D-30659 Hannover
phone: +49-511-6102-0
FAX: +49-511-6102-411
mail: ir@hoeft-wessel.com
WWW: http://www.hoeft-wessel.com
sector: Technology
ISIN: DE0006011000
indexes: Prime All Share, Technology All Share
stockmarkets: free trade: Hannover, Berlin, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf,
Stuttgart, regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt
language: English