Value priced, without sacrificing performance. This was our number one objective with this product. Lightweight, slim, this mobile computer was all about cost reduction. Still, impossible to ignore, is the momentum our industrial design team was carrying on form factor consideration. Low cost, but with high design, this is one of my favorite mobile computers to hold in my hand.

Becoming the subject matter expert in batteries, it was only natural I worked on the battery, connector, and latching mechanisms. Offloading the latching to the terminal for obvious cost advantages, it began to look rather simple for an external facing battery pack. Well executed by design, to request such a texture. Making this pack pop visually, while referencing speaker hole pattern clues in the texture feature.

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