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CES 2012: Panasonic’s Tough Pad A1 Durability With A Price

| January 12, 2012 | 3 Comments

Panasonic, the creators of the ultra rugged “tough” line of laptop computers, has added an Android Honeycomb tablet to the mix. We first learned about the Panasonic ToughPad A1 and B1 back in November.  They were showing off the A1 at CES and we got the opportunity to check it out.

Underneath it’s tough exterior the Panasonic Toughpad carries the power of most of the top of the line tablets introduced in 2011. It has a 1.2ghz dual core processor, 10 inch form factor, a 5 mega pixel camera on the rear and a 2 megapixel camera on the front.

It’s running Android 3.2 Honeycomb and a resolution of 768 x1024 pixels.

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Panasonic Debuts 2 New Tough Pad Honeycomb Android Tablets

| November 7, 2011 | 1 Comment

Look what we have here. The folks at Panasonic, who have been producing tough tablets for mostly enterprise since 1996 have announced two new rugged and tough “Toughpads”.  The two new tablets are known as the Toughpad A 1 (10″ version) and the Toughpad B1.

The Toughpad A1 is the 10″ version and according to Panasonic it’s ideal for mobile outdoor workers. It’s running a 1.2ghz dual core Marvell processor. The capacitive touch screen is “stylus ready”, and comes in at 1024 x 768 pixels and 4:3 form-factor. The tablets a little heavy at 2.3 pounds however you’re trading that for the “tough factor” not only that but it’s said to come with either 4G LTE or WiMAX and a 10 hour, user replaceable battery to boot.

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