Casio Moves from Tough Android Watches to Tough Android Tablets

[dgstorm]

Casio is known for some of its rugged watches and rugged Android phones. Today's news shows that they are branching out. Casio is apparently creating a couple of rugged Android tablets as well. The models they will be offering are the Casio V-T500-GE and V-T500-E. Both are made to the ruggedness specification with a IPR 54 rating. This basically means that you can drop them from 3 feet, and will operate when splashed or in dusty environments. Here's what else we know about,

• Encased in rubber
• Running Android Ice Cream Sandwich
• 10" displays
• Dual-core 1.5GHz TI OMAP4460 processor
• NFC chip
• Large capacity battery (user-swappable)

We still don't know any details on pricing or availability, but will keep our feelers out for more info.

Source: PhoneArena

 

[MA83]

Those are nice! I wonder how much. That's something that would be a much better fit for my inspections out in the field than my ASUS.

 

[J515OP]

I have to say that looks pretty bad ass. Just like something out of a FPS. Ruggedized usually means a lot more expensive. I would guess $1000-$1500 but it could be as much as $2000-$3000 depending on what the ruggedness means in military equivalent. Yes, the government will pay that much so the price wouldn't be crazy if that is their target market (no-pun intended).

 

[MA83]

Maybe I could get it added into the budget!