Japanese Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1999-0006

Fujitsu's New TeamPad 7500 Hand-held Terminal With Thin Client Technology Greatly Reduces Total Cost of Ownership

- First Thin-Client Hand-held to Feature SS Wireless LAN as Standard -

Tokyo, January 18, 1999 -- Fujitsu Limited today introduced the TeamPad 7500, a new hand-held terminal that comes with SS wireless LAN as standard and utilizes thin client technology to greatly reduce operational and management costs. The TeamPad 7500 will go on sale in the Japanese market tomorrow, with overseas sales to commence shortly.

The TeamPad series of hand-held terminals is key element of @RETAILVISION, Fujitsu's total system solution for the retail industry. The series includes a broad range of hand-held terminals, such as information displays, general purpose terminals and bar code readers, designed to meet a wide variety of retailers' needs. In recent years retailers have been demanding more sophisticated applications to handle expanded data requirements, such as graphical display of past sales information and product images. Previously, in order to introduce such advanced applications, emphasis has been placed on expanding the resources of the hand-held terminal itself by adding larger amounts of flash ROM and introducing higher-speed CPUs. However, this has tended to increase application maintenance costs as well as the time needed for exchanging data with the server.

Adopting a thin client model based on Windows-based Terminal technology, Fujitsu's new TeamPad 7500 enables applications formerly residing on the hand-held terminal to be located on the server. Customers' field staff are thus able to carry about compact hand-held devices that require fewer resources and whose application programs can be efficiently managed at the server level, rather than at each terminal. Furthermore, because screen information and operations input by the customer are the only things to be exchanged between the terminal and the server, transmission speeds between terminal and server are much faster. And with SS wireless LAN installed as standard equipment, it is possible to exchange data with the server without having to purchase separate specialized cards.

The TeamPad 7500 is equipped with an 800 x 600 SVGA color LCD, weighs only 850 grams, and will be offered in the Japan market at a list price of just 388,000 yen. Positioned as a global product, the TeamPad 7500 will be sold by Fujitsu subsidiaries in North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania, along with other TeamPad products. Fujitsu has set a worldwide sales target of 70,000 TeamPad 7500 units over the next three years.

TeamPad 7500 Product Highlights

1. Super thin client hand-held terminal with SS wireless LAN connection standard
   • Windows NT Server 4.0 and Terminal Server Edition
   • Windows CE and Terminal Server client software are pre-installed in the terminal's ROM
2. Total cost of Ownership greatly reduced through use of Windows-based Terminal technology
   • No need to download or upload programs or data
   • Applications and data reside on server for centralized applications and data management
3. High-brightness (max. 120 candela) 8.4-inch SVGA DSTN color liquid crystal touch screen panel for bright, clear graphics and information display
4. Compact (B5 size; 25mm thick) and lightweight (850 grams)
5. IEEE802.11-conformant SS wireless LAN with 2Mbps high-speed transmission
6. Touch panel and ten-key numeric keypad for simple operation
7. High-performance lithium-ion battery with intelligent power management functions
8. Superior shock and moisture resistance for rugged use
9. Environmentally friendly product (recyclability, energy efficiency, use of environmentally friendly materials, etc.)

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About Fujitsu

Fujitsu Limited is a leading provider of information technology products and solutions for the global marketplace. Founded in Japan in 1935 as a telephone equipment maker, the Fujitsu Group had consolidated revenues of $37.7 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31,1998. With over 500 group companies, Fujitsu is one of the world's largest suppliers of computers and information systems solutions, telecommunications and semiconductor products, software and services. The Fujitsu Group has over 180,000 employees worldwide and operations in more than 100 countries.
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