Enterprise Oriented Tablets

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Bangalore: The tablet market has grown drastically over the past two years since the launch of iPad. Today almost every PC manufacturing company has made a move into Tablet manufacturing as well seeing the optimistic market and wide range of Tablet consumers. Tablets in market today do not offer much work related content other than accessing email and documents keeping this in mind the tablet manufacturers are gearing up to provide the customers with more specific and specialized tablets designed especially for enterprises. Milagrow, Lenovo and Dell have already launched their ‘business’ tablets whereas Cisco and Motorola have also made the move, reports Ketaki Bhojnagarwala from The Hindu.

This new enterprise specific tablet brings along with it new additions and changes that are expected to benefit the business users. The tablet would have a good operating system, enterprise specific apps and from the hardware perspective there would be multiple ports, keyboard, a docking station etc and though the users would have to compromise on other things like design, thickness and weight but the new add on features would make it up.

A recent test was conducted by eWorld on Lenovo’s Think pad tablet to explore the new added options. As per the test 32GB and 64GB versions of the tablet are available and a Wi-Fi only version of 16 GB that will be available in the market. This tablet runs on Android Honeycomb 3.1 and is of 10 inches.

The Tablet has various ports like mini USB port, full sized USB port, SIM card slot, mini HDMI port, dock connector and 3.mm headphone jack. The tablet also offers a digital pen that can be used as a stylus and supports pen input and interestingly documents like word and excel for example can be signed with this digital pen. McAfee antivirus and SD card and tablet encryption provide the required safety and regarding email security Good For Enterprise a secure email client is sold separately.

As per the test hardware of the tablet was the best feature which includes the keyboard that comes in a folio case and manages to fit the tablet perfectly within this case via a USB connector.

The main question is the future of the tablet, well the market of the tablet would be optimistic provided that it would be cost effective and affordable as of the now the cheapest Think pad is priced at Rs 29,500 and moreover this kind of tablet will be restricted for IT industry only and for people who are required to stay continuously in touch with their workplace. The market would also be good if the tablet would be launched on a Windows 8 platform rather than Android which has its own limitations. Until then the ThinkPad would be given a second though compared to iPad.