[PLUG] Android Tablets, Kindle Fire?

[Keith Lofstrom]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 09:01:25AM -0700, Mike Cherba wrote:
>     What size tablet are you looking for?  7" ish?  or 10/11" ish?  it would
> help narrow down the choices a fair amount.

> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
> 
> > In a few months, after we get the web-based electronic medical
> > records systems running at my wife's new office, we will deploy
> > a few tablet computers.  I would like a camera (for scanning
> > QR codes and photographing skin conditions), some kind of text
> > data entry, secure communications, and some form of authentication
> > and time-out, so that if the tablet is left lying about without
> > activity it will lock, awaiting a password or some kind of
> > biometric to unlock.  Wifi, locked to a single encrypted
> > access point, no phone.
> >
> > Probably some kind of Android tablet.  Amazon just announced
> > the $200 Kindle Fire, based on Android - while that probably
> > has the appropriate hardware, it may be locked as a walled
> > garden media platform.
> >
> > Probably too early to say what the Fire will permit.  If dear
> > reader learns more about the implementation and linux usability
> > of this device, please share your discoveries on this list.
> > Other suggestions welcome - spending a few hundred dollars
> > extra for something that is Just Right would be fine.

I imagine a 7 inch tablet would be fine.  We are dealing with older
eyes, but I assume we can reduce the amount data displayed rather
than show a regular webpage scrunched to teeny-tiny.  But if we
can't reformat the data, we may need 11 inch.  That helps not so
much.

Keith

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