The Android's white screen surround is pleasant enough to behold, although that's hardly relevant — you don't buy a rugged 8 inch tablet for its looks. What will appeal, though, is the very solid backplate and thick bumper that surrounds the tablet q88
on all four sides. This is considerably thicker on the four corners, as
inevitably these areas tend to take more knocks.The net result of this
bumper and a rather thicker-than-normal backplate is a bulky tablet
measuring 282mm wide by 183mm deep by 21.5mm thick. Compare this to
Panasonic's 10.1in.
Toughpad FZ-G1, which is 269mm wide, 188mm
deep and 20.3mm thick. The 7in. Getac Z710 has a smaller footprint, but
is much thicker at 27mm.The Android meets MIL-STD-810G and is IP65
certified. No surprises there — both the Getac and Panasonic tablets
mentioned above meet these standards, which are de rigueur for a rugged tablet q88
(only the ultra-rugged category offers a higher level of protection
against dust and water ingress, and better drop-protection).
A
magnesium alloy mid-frame provides additional protection for the
chassis. Again this is nothing out of the ordinary for this sector —
Panasonic's Toughpad uses the same construction element, for example.The
screen is protected by the aforementioned corner bumpers, which are
raised slightly to protect it from suffering if the tablet q88 should crash to the ground. There's also the option of having an Armortech screen protector fitted at purchase time.bv3dSD3s
The
Android accepts stylus input as well as touch, but the tablet's stylus
management solution is far from ideal. There's no housing on the chassis
itself; instead, the stylus is tethered by an expanding cord to an
optional hand-strap with an elastic loop integrated into the palm
slot.With pricing for the base specification at around £900 (inc. VAT,
£750 ex. VAT) or $1,349, rising as you add optional tablet features such
as mobile broadband and accessories like a vehicle dock (£124/$199),
back handle (£34/$54) or shoulder strap/top handle combo (£74 /$119),
the Android is no low-cost tablet.
However, field workers should find this Android tablet q88
robust enough, and if you compare it to the £1,500 Windows 8-based
Panasonic Toughbook FZ-G1, the Android's price tag looks much more
appealing.Android tablet have a key role to play in vertical markets
such as construction and utility companies, where robust hardware is
often as important as solid software. We've recently reviewed a
10.1-inch Windows 8 tablet from Panasonic, the Toughpad FZ-G1, and taken
a look at Getac's 7-inch Android-based Z710. Now we're putting a
10.1-inch Android tablet, the Android from Xplore Technologies, under
the microscope.
Teachers are under additional stress because they
have to rework lesson plans that had involved the tablets, she
said.Board Chairman Alan Duncan said he’s heard from a few people who
“hope that we can get them (the tablets) back in service soon.”“It’s
extremely disappointing, however, that the tablets are not what they
should have been at this point, so we need to go back to work on that to
help advance the long-term vision or plan,” he said.
Cross
platform mobile ad vendor Agawi has released test results from its
TouchMarks study of various tablets, including Microsoft's Surface,
Amazon's Kindle and Android tablet q88 by
Nvidia, Samsung and Google's Nexus-branded tablet built by Asus. The
study measures how quickly apps can respond to touch events, quantifying
the responsiveness, or laggy lack thereof, in tablets. The results are a
combination of hardware quality and software platform responsiveness.
Apple's
iPad mini and iPad 4 led the with scores similar to Apple's iPhone 5 in
a previous benchmarkingof smartphones. Apple's tablets scored a
significant margin ahead of 7 inch android tablet,
particularly Samsung's Galaxy Tab 3 and the Nexus 7, but also Amazon's
latest Kindle Fire HD and Nvidia’s Shield, an Android dedicated gaming
device with graphics specifications similar to iPhone 5s.
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