Magnetic Stripe Card & SmartCard Reader

Magnetic Stripe Card Reader for BlackBerry® Bold™ 9000

Grabba S-8030b Magnetic Stripe Card & SmartCard Reader for BlackBerry® Bold™ 9000

….for the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9000 Series of Smartphones. The BlackBerry® powered device slides snugly into the Grabba housing turning the combination into a powerful point of sale system. Fitted with its own rechargable long-life battery the Grabba is suitable for heavy workloads without adverse impact upon the battery life of the host BlackBerry® powered PDA. The PDA and the Grabba may be left attached while battery charging of both units takes place. Proprietary, high-tech battery management technology ensures that battery life is maximised.

Magnetic Stripe Card Reader Technology:
The Grabba Magnetic Stripe Card Reader uses a MagTek read head combined with ASIC decoder offering superior data recovery from all types of magnetic cards, including old or badly damaged cards. Grabba Magnetic Stripe Card Readers open opportunities for developers in financial and non-financial applications utilising magnetic stripe technology, capable of reading one, two and three track cards.

ISO standard track format cards can be read with both the Grabba Keyboard Wedge and SDKs, while proprietary encoded track format cards can be read with the Grabba SDKs.

Contact Smartcard Reader Technology:
The Grabba Contact Smartcard reader uses a high quality GemAlto smartcard interface, compatible with synchronous memory cards and asynchronous microcontroller cards supporting both read and write applications.

Grabba Contact Smartcard devices open opportunities for developers of health, security, identity, permission based applications and more, through free Grabba SDKs. A Grabba PC/SC compliant IFD handler is also available for Windows Mobile, allowing developers to leverage existing PC/SC applications to easily integrate with Grabba Contact Smartcard devices.

Supported Cards: Microcontroller cards with T=0 and T=1 protocol, Siemens SLE4432/42 and SLE4418/28, Atmel AT88SC06 and AT24CO1-16, STMicroelectronics I2C and XI2C, more upon request