Motorola has disclosed a new tablet called the Motorola ET1 which has been designed keeping enterprise and government customers in mind. Claiming to provide utmost durability, the device comes with an optional barcode scanner and magnetic stripe reader, hot-swappable battery packs and secure system software.
Incorporated with secure multi-slot recharging stations, the Motorola tablet is a password-protected device. It can easily be shared and provisioned for employees as per their level of responsibility and access rights. The tablet comes equipped with a 7-inch Gorilla Glass color display and can sustain continuous usage by multiple staff members.
Girish Rishi, corporate vice president and general manager of mobile computing, Motorola Solutions commented, “As a mobile computing leader with expertise in retail, Motorola Solutions’ introduction of the ET1 tablet is a natural extension to our product portfolio. The ET1 will enable store associates to leverage the sleek design and user experience of a tablet with the applications, durability, security, device management and lifecycle support that retailers require. The tablet’s robust feature set also will meet the critical needs of mobile workers in other enterprise sectors such as manufacturing and logistics.â€
This new tablet is built to be quite durable and resistant to daily wear and tear. It integrates a variety of Motorola enterprise-grade software modules such as RhoElements which is a new HTML5 application enablement framework. This device reportedly enables quicker and more cost-effective development of enterprise applications which can be deployed on traditional Windows Embedded Handheld as well as Android-based Motorola devices.
The Motorola ET1 tablet will be available from the fourth quarter of this year.
