Casio Moves from Tough Android Watches to Tough Android Tablets

[dgstorm]

Casio is known for some of its rugged watches and rugged Android phones. Today's news shows that they are branching out. Casio is apparently creating a couple of rugged Android tablets as well. The models they will be offering are the Casio V-T500-GE and V-T500-E. Both are made to the ruggedness specification with a IPR 54 rating. This basically means that you can drop them from 3 feet, and will operate when splashed or in dusty environments. Here's what else we know about,

• Encased in rubber
• Running Android Ice Cream Sandwich
• 10" displays
• Dual-core 1.5GHz TI OMAP4460 processor
• NFC chip
• Large capacity battery (user-swappable)

We still don't know any details on pricing or availability, but will keep our feelers out for more info.

Source: AndroidTablets.net via PhoneArena

 

[94lt1]

If these are anything like the laptops they made a few years back, they should be pretty good... my sisters fell off the roof of her car at 45 MPH and still functioned.

 

[xsylus]

That looks sweet! :biggrin: If I got one of those I'd put a metallic Batman logo on the back; that's what it reminds me of. It seems it would be easier to keep a hold of with the soft-rubber coating and grooves, I put a silicon cover over my ASUS Transformer because it's so thin it's difficult to get a good grip on it and I feel like I'm going to drop it. The cover helps give me a more secure grip on it.

 

[lloydstrans]

If I spent an insane amount for a casio watch this is something right up my alley, toughbook meet tough pad. gorilla glass a must.

 

[Xplorer4x4]

Nice to see they stepped up the specs. Going off the title I expected a repeat of the Gzone commander...a tough and rugged but under powered device.There is still some potential for that to be true but a dual core cpu looks promising imo. Then again..thinking about it, the dual core might be a bit under powered for some environments where this would come in handy. A construction manager trying to render a 3D model comes to mind.

 

[cybertec69]

What's with the Texas Instruments dual-core chip.