The firm is describing the device as a tablet version of its Toughbook laptops. Toughpad takes all the Toughbook experience of rugged computing we have gained since 1996 and focuses it into tablets designed for the workplace."
The Toughpad FZ-A1 will be a 10.1in tablet equipped with a Marvell 1.2GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. A 3G version of the Toughpad will be available for €1,199 (£1,027).
Panasonic launched two Android-powered Toughpad tablets on Monday, the 10-inch A1 and 7-inch B1. Designed for “highly mobile outdoor workers,” they’re best suited to those in rough-necked folk in fields like construction, aviation, the military and field sales. The multi-touch display responds to both finger and stylus, featuring handwriting recognition and signature capture technologies. To boot, it can operate in extreme temperatures ranging from a frigid 14 degrees fahrenheit to a swelteringly hot 122.
Panasonic isn’t new to the rugged tablet space. The Toughpad A1 includes a 5-megapixel rear facing camera and 2-megapixel forward-facing camera. If security is a major component of your tablet needs, the Toughpad offers enterprise-level security such as software and hardware encryption, dual-factor authentication and enhanced VPN. The 10-inch Toughpad A1 will be available for a whopping $1300 in early 2012. Panasonic, best known for ruggedly reliable laptop PCs, thinks the Android tablets on the market today are wimpy devices for consumers.
By contrast, the company's new pair of Toughpad tablets are professional-grade slates for business and government users seeking everything from hardware-level security to an enterprise-oriented app store.
The Toughpad A1, which will reach the market in the spring of 2012 starting at $1,299, is a 10.1-inch Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) tablet with a 1.2-GHz Marvell dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of storage (MicroSD optional up to 32GB), and 10 hours of battery life.
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