Nam Tai announces new order manufacturing scanner pen for new customer

Nam Tai Electronics, Inc. ("Nam Tai" or the "Company") (NYSE: NTE) is pleased to announce that it has won a new customer order from Anoto Group AB ("Anoto Group") to manufacture scanner pens under the C-Pen(R) brand name. Anoto Group is a Swedish hi-tech company with shares traded on the O-list of the Stockholm Stock Exchange and which has unique product solutions for the transmission of handwritten text from paper to digital media and the scanning of printed text.

The C-Pen(R) is a handheld scanner pen consisting of a digital camera, processor, memory component, text to speech engine, dictionary and translation software. With its specific design which can be used together with a hosting computer, the C-Pen(R) reads generic text, number and bar codes into a personal computer through a USB connection. In addition to its reading ability, the C-Pen(R) has various applications such as text reading for dyslectic or disabled people, foreign languages pronunciation practice, Internet banking/accounting, language translation and dictionary lookup, among others.