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Catch a `Rainbow' in your hand

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Indian designer wows Tokyo Expo with cool hand-held tools

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The inside-out of i-Wave's Rainbow G3 platform for handheld multimedia devices based on the freescale processor set.

Bangalore: `Their proven embedded hardware and software services will help original equipment manufacturers to develop different designs very quickly' said Aaron Shagrin, manager for the wireless developer network for leading international semiconductor company, Freescale, last week.

He was speaking of an up-and-coming Indian design house, iWave Systems, which has just launched the latest avatar of its multipurpose iW-Rainbow platform for handheld smart devices, one of the first solutions fuelled by the Texas-based chipmaker's latest multimedia processor.

The Rainbow G3 is something of a chameleon: It can be made to work as a video player, an Internet Telephone, a video phone, a smart phone... you name it. Some of its many forms drew wide interest at the Embedded Systems Expo and Conference (ESEC 2007) in Tokyo last week.

S. Balagunapriya, iWave's Business Development, told The Hindu on Saturday, that the Tokyo expo also saw the first civilian unveiling of the company's rugged, military-standard hand-held computer platform which is powered by a Marvel PXA chip and includes both Wireless Internet and satellite-based global positioning system (GPS) tracking. Like all iWave platforms, it works equally well in Windows and Linux environments, she added.

It is being put through its paces by units of the Indian Defence Department with a view to creating a high tech command-and-navigation tool for jawans. But iWave is seeing a new market for the rugged platform for harsh outdoor applications in the surveying and construction sectors.

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