You Asked, We Answer: Top 5 Mobile Computer Matters

By Tom Kost, Xplore Technologies

In case you missed it, we joined over 100 of our industry peers last week for a very matter-of-fact discussion about the pricing structure of today’s mobile computing solutions – and the pros/cons of various PC form factors in both field service and more traditional industry work environments.

Unfortunately, an hour wasn’t long enough to tackle your top questions and talk about all of the mobility issues weighing on your mind today. So let’s dig into some of them now:

1. What would you recommend to someone who does need to key a lot of data in the field – walking – monitoring devices? The touch screen keyboards leave a lot to be desired.

Great question. Let’s get one point out of the way first: Professionally-focused tablets have keyboard options, almost all of which are wirelessly connected to each other (some with Bluetooth, others with a better automatic connection). So any data entry that requires a keyboard can be done just as easily with a tablet PC as with a laptop PC.