Rugged Tablets Aren't Just For Road Warriors

By Tom Lahoda, Xplore Technologies

You don’t have to be a road warrior – or even assigned to a classic “rugged” work environment – to benefit from rugged tablets’ incomparable mobility experience.

You just have to be someone who appreciates the extreme power, flexibility, and connectivity of a complete PC experience in a condensed, yet big screen, mobile form factor that can be managed in one hand (while on foot) or double as a desktop. If you’re prone to dropping your laptop or mobile device or guilty of fluid spills and splashes on your screen, then the highly rated protection of rugged tablets is a can’t-beat bonus not offered by commercial grade mobile devices. Plus, if you’re someone who ever works outside - or wants to have the flexibility to do so – rugged tablets’ sunlight readable display makes it easy to check email, review documents, and remain responsive to colleagues and customers at all times.

In fact, many state, local, and even federal government workers don’t think to consider rugged tablets when making mobile device selections for their departments, especially if they tend to logon more often from a desk than in dusty, rainy, snowy, or sunshine-laden job sites. But what’s important to remember when shopping for any new mobile or computing technology – whether it will be used by a procurement director, public school educator, or high-ranking agency supervisor – is that it’s rare for anyone to remain stationary or indoors for eight hours anymore. Contracting officers have to conduct site visits on occasion. Teachers are frequently moving between classrooms and even campuses. Supervisors are constantly off-site for meetings and inspections of active projects. In fact, every major federal agency “performs work that requires employees to function outside of an office on occasion,” FedTech Magazine confirmed recently.

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