NEWARK, CA--(MARKET WIRE)--Aug 20, 2008 -- Socket Mobile, Inc. (SCKT - News), an innovative provider of mobile productivity products, today announced it will offer new 802.11 a/b/g Wireless LAN (WLAN) products designed for corporate and industrial OEM customers to use in their embedded and plug-in applications. Three form factors will be available worldwide including modules, Secure Digital and CompactFlash cards.

The new products have added key features of extended operating temperature range and antenna diversity, and have improved range capability, receiver sensitivity, data rate and power management as compared to the previous 802.11 b/g products. Socket will offer driver support for Windows Mobile 5 and 6, Windows CE 5.0 and 6.0 platforms. Linux will be supported through Socket industry software partners. Socket will also offer security supplicant, connection and configuration management software, and Cisco CCX compatibility.

"The new WLAN 802.11 a/b/g products are designed to work in noisy radio environments and in a range of vertical industry markets," said Chang Xu, Sr. OEM Product Line Manager at Socket Mobile. "These new WLAN products demonstrate Socket's commitment to continue delivering high quality products with demanding specifications. They will enable us not only to supply our existing customers with exciting new capabilities, but to expand our customer base into new markets. We continue to offer stable products with life cycles suitable for corporate deployments, feature rich software, and superior customer service."

Samples for customer evaluation and design-in will be available by the end of Q3 2008. Volume production will start in Q4 2008. Please contact the Socket OEM sales team for more detailed product information and availability.

About Socket Mobile, Inc.

Socket supplies its OEM customers with WLAN and Bluetooth® modules and cards and feature-rich software for use in industrial environments. Socket makes mobility computing and productivity work. The company is a one-stop supplier of mobile computing hardware systems, offering a handheld mobile computer specifically designed for business mobility use and an extensive portfolio of essential mobile data collection and networking peripherals that enable mobile automation and productivity increases. Socket is headquartered in Newark, California and can be reached at 510-933-3000 or www.socketmobile.com.

Socket is a registered trademarks of Socket Mobile, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names contained herein may be those of their respective owners.

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This press release contains forward looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such forward looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to the development and availability of new products and the acceptance of these products in the marketplace. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results could differ materially from the results anticipated in such forward looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the risk that the development, availability and shipments of our products may be delayed or not happen as predicted, if ever, due to technological, market, or financial factors, including the availability of necessary working capital, the risk that market acceptance and sales opportunities may not happen as anticipated, the effects of the current and future economic environments, the risk that our integrator program and current distribution channels may not choose to distribute our products or may not be successful in doing so, the risk that acceptance of our products in vertical application markets may not happen as anticipated, and other risks described in our most recent Form 10-K and 10-Q reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Socket Mobile does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.