[PLUG] Android Tablets, Kindle Fire?

Mike Cherba mcherba at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 16:01:25 UTC 2011


Keith,
    What size tablet are you looking for?  7" ish?  or 10/11" ish?  it would
help narrow down the choices a fair amount.
              -Mike


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.
>
> Keith
>
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