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ROV Barcode Scanner Customer Success Stories

Nicolas Andron

May 20th, 2009
by Nicolas Andron


As promised, here’s the follow up to my last posting: What Customers Think of the ROV Barcode Scanner. From the ROV Scanner Satisfaction Survey, we contacted numerous customers that told us they were willing to share their applications and experiences with the ROV Scanner. Here’s a summary of a few of the customers (also, each of the summaries link to the full Case Study on www.microvision.com).

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How in the World does the ROV Scanner fit into Microvision’s strategy?

Nicolas Andron

February 5th, 2009
by Nicolas Andron


Being the young, smart and handsome guy in Microvision’s Marketing department (or at least that’s what I tell myself), I’m often sent to various trade shows to represent Microvision products. When I tell people about our product line, they have a hard time making the leap (and understandably so) between the ROV Scanner and innovative display products like Pico Projectors and Mobile Device Eyewear.

The answer is simple: all of our products, either to market or in development, share the same common denominator: Microvision’s core technology, MEMS.

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Three advantages the ROV Scanner has over mobile “embedded” barcode scanner solutions

Nicolas Andron

January 16th, 2009
by Nicolas Andron


Recently, a reader asked me if Microvision has plans to embed our bar code technology into mobile phones. Halfway through my response, I noticed it was shaping up to be an impressive treatise, so I decided to turn my response into a post, instead! (Short answer to the question: Microvision has not announced any plans to embed our barcode scanner technology into cell phones).

We designed the ROV Scanner so that, when paired with a mobile device to create a mobile barcode capture solution, it had inherent advantages over current embedded solutions.
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