Castles Technology
- Company role:
- Terminal manufacturer
- Head office:
- New Taipei City, Taiwan
The Taiwanese terminal builder behind a lot of hardware that carries somebody else’s badge — a wide Android range sold through acquirers and payment facilitators, never direct to merchants.
About Castles Technology
Castles Technology was founded in Taiwan in 1993 and builds payment terminals for banks, acquirers, payment facilitators and resellers rather than selling to merchants itself. It is listed in Taipei under the code 5258 and runs out of New Taipei City.
The range is organised into named series rather than one flat model list, and the pattern is worth knowing before reading a quote. Saturn 1000 is the volume Android line — portables, countertops, PIN pads and unattended modules all sharing a platform. Saturn 2000 is the large-screen end: a multilane terminal and a tablet POS. Vega 1000 is the older Linux line, still sold, for buyers who want a long-lived certified device rather than something that runs apps. Nova 1000 is the integrated POS.
Castles reaches Australian merchants the same way PAX does — through a provider who brands and prices the hardware as their own. The badge on the terminal in front of you rarely says Castles, which is exactly why a device page is more useful than a brand page.
Castles products
Product range
Payment terminals
24 models, and what each one is actually for.
Portable
S1F3
A 5.5-inch Android portable with a 100mm/sec printer and an ATEX certification — the only Castles handheld rated for an explosive atmosphere.
Countertop
S1F3CT
The S1F3 rebuilt for the counter — same 5.5-inch screen and Android 12, with Ethernet, RS232 and a snap-in paper roll.
Portable
S1F4
The base of the S1F4 family — Android 13, a 5.5-inch screen, a printer and a Magic Box accessory for wired ports.
Portable
S1F4 MAX
The big-screen S1F4 — a 6.745-inch display on an octa-core processor, with a 3350mAh battery and an optional barcode scanner.
Portable
S1F4 MAX DUO
The MAX with a second screen on the back — a 1.9-inch customer display for QR payment and confirmation.
Official site: castlestech.com
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