Panasonic has announced the launch of world's most rugged Android based tablet the Toughpad. Panasonic has been an industry leader...
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Panasonic smartphones to launch globally
Panasonic has announced plans to launch its smartphones for the world market starting from Europe and later in Asia and USA. Remember ...
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Saturday, 10 December 2011
Panasonic's new tablet can endure fall from 4 ft
Panasonic has announced the launch of world's most rugged Android based tablet the Toughpad.
Panasonic has been an industry leader in rugged tablet computers since 1996 and now they have yet again made its way to the top of the rugged Android tablets with the launch of the new Toughpad.
Panasonic has unveiled two Android tablets in the Toughpad family including the 10 inch Toughpad A1 and the 7 inch Toughpad B1 tab. Both the new Toughpad devices meet the durability standards of Panasonic's Toughbook PC products announced sometime back for India.
The devices have MIL-STD-810G ratings for drops as well as protection ratings for resistance to dust and water. The Toughpad is also rated for use in a wide range of temperatures. This elevated level of durability delivers reliability in almost any environment, assuring maximum mobile productivity. The devices are also capable of withstanding drops from up to 4 feet without getting damaged.
Panasonic Toughpad A1 will be based on Google's Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) operating system powered by a Marvell 1.2 GHzDual-Core processor and 1 GB of low power consuming DDR2 RAM. The device will feature 16 GB of internal storage while for optional storage there is a MicroSD slot offering up to 32 GB expandable memory option.
The 10.1-inch display of the device produces 500 nit brightness with XGA resolution and provides capacitive multi-touch ability. It has also got an anti-reflective and anti-glare treatment and a built in ambient light sensor. Although the device is of 10 inch, the screen will be featuring a 4:3 aspect ratio as opposed to the 16:9 aspect ratio found on similar devices.
The battery life is claimed to be of 10 hours between charges and for multimedia and video calling the Toughpad also features a 5 MP rear camera along with a 2 megapixel front camera. The Toughpad A1 also offers optional4G (LTE or WiMAX) mobile broadband as well as Bluetoothv2.1 + EDR, 802.11a/b/g/n WiFiand GPS connectivity.
The Toughpad A1 will be available in March 2012 starting at $1299 which is Rs 65,000 approximately. The Toughpad B1 will be released later in 2012, with more details coming closer to availability. Both devices will be available for purchased through authorized Panasonic resellers only.
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Panasonic smartphones to launch globally
Panasonic has announced plans to launch its smartphones for the world market starting from Europe and later in Asia and USA.
Remember the advertisement on TV some six years ago, where Bipasa Basu proposes that she will dance with a person having the smallest phone? Remember the brand? It was Panasonic.
Soon after the Japanese company abandoned the phone business, though it continued to make handsets for its home market — Japan.
Now Panasonic has announced that it will re-enter the business with the launch of Android based smartphone starting this March. European markets will be first ones to get these phones followed by Asia and USA.
The company has also released pictures of their first smartphone, which features a 4.3 inch qHD screen with a unibody design. It will be dust-proof and water proof as well. We also know that it will feature NFC technology and will be based on Android operating system.
The company aims to sell 15 million phones by the year 2016, a modest target given the fact that only Indian phone market is worth close to 12 million (world market is 472 million) phones per annum.
The Panasonic Group created the Systems & Communications Company (SNC) in April this year in advance of its reorganisation scheduled for January 2012 in order to handle products and services related to system, network and mobile communications.
Within this company, Panasonic will maximise its internal resources, including making use of an existing factory in Malaysia. Currently, phones for the Japanese market are manufactured in this factory but now the same factory is also scheduled to manufacture the first global model as announced.
Panasonic will be utilising the group's technological assets and development resources as well as its production and sales sites around the world and the company has all this in plenty. For instance Panasonic has a lot of expertise in the battery space and is one of the largest manufacturers of Li-ion batteries.
However, most Japanese companies have not been successful in phone space apart from their domestic market despite having a lot of technology which is not available elsewhere in the world.
Even Sony which is present in the space through a JV with Ericsson has had a mixed bag of success and failure. Sony has already bought Ericsson's stake in the JV and will go all alone from mid next year making only smartphones.
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