That was primarily because it also offered a whole lot more than a consumer phone.Ĭompared to standard phones (and even the BM170), the BM180 had an integrated industrial-grade 1D/2D barcode reader, RFID, integrated mag card reader functionality, as well as a SAM slot. As an enterprise device with a degree of ruggedness, the BM180 of course was thicker and heavier than consumer phones.
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Measuring 3.1 x 6.0 inches, the BM180 seemed quite large for a handheld at the time (it'd be another eight months before Apple introduced the iPhone 6 Plus with a nearly identical footprint). It was very crisp, too, with 1280 x 720 pixel resolution making for 294 pixels per inch - "retina" class sharpness. The iPhone pretty much determined what a smartphone had to look like, and the sheer number of iPhones and Android-based phones sold had a definite impact on enterprise handhelds.Īs a result, the BM180 had a 5-inch display, much larger than the smallish 3.5-inch screen of the BM170.
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Things were changing, though, with smartphone screens growing ever larger and Android becoming the dominant operating platform outside Apple's proprietary iOS. The BM180 handheld computer for data capture and payment applications described on this page was formally introduced January 2014 as the flagship model at the time, and also as Bluebird's first device built on the Microsoft Windows Embedded 8 Handheld platform.īluebird positioned the BM180 as an evolutionary step forward from the existing BM170 that had been introduced in 2010 when displays were smaller and most handhelds were still very much steeped in the Pocket PC hardware and software legacy of years prior (which meant Windows Mobile running on Marvel PXA chips).
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Bluebird's offerings also include barcode scanners, RFID readers, and printer-integrated handhelds. Pace-setting rugged enterprise handheld with dual OS capability and industrial-grade scanningīluebird, a Korean company that has been in the mobile computer hardware business since 1998, specializes in products serving primarily enterprise mobility and the payment industries.