Write This Down: Handwriting Trumps Typing On Rugged Tablets

By Jeremy Trojcak, Xplore Technologies

As I mentioned last week , people argue that tablet PCs aren’t amenable to getting “real work” done. Motley Fool just claimed in a September 17 article that “… tablets aren't great productivity devices.”

“Tablets are great for the consumption of content, but they fall well short of laptops when it comes to creating that content,” they asserted a breath later. I strongly disagree, and so does the data.

I have actually had many conversations with customers, partners and mobile industry experts about whether or not typing is really the superior data entry method to handwriting in field service sectors. After all, we’ve spent billions of dollars as a global entity to move as far away from pen and paper data processes and towards the more practical capture and storage abilities of the PC, including mobile PCs. So my colleagues and I devised a series of tests to see which mobile data entry method was faster for the “Walking & Working” Content Creator demographic: handwriting or typing.

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