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The seven-hour battery life could be better, but the integrated 4G and two biometric options are welcome additions. It’s still a better machine for work than play, but it is good enough to pull double duty unless all you want to do is watch videos from across the room.

Rugged Handheld Device Market Segment by Regions– North America, Europe, China, Japan, Middle East & Africa, India, South America, Others

Psychologists discovered that the longer someone played, the more they would see the block patterns in everyday life. Some people said they even dreamed about the falling blocks. This has since been dubbed Tetris Syndrome.

Tough devices fit perfectly with the Caterpillar brand which has long been associated with machinery and construction. While Sprint has been selling rugged phones for a while now, they have traditionally lacked strong branding.

The Android Oreo 8.1 installation on this phone purrs along nicely with 4GB of RAM, and the 64GB of standard storage can handle lots of apps and data before you need to consider adding a microSD card.

Toughbook-as-a-Service is an end-to-end subscription, powered by European digital services provider, Econocom. It allows companies to pay for their Toughbook devices monthly, over a three-year period. Uniquely Toughbook-as-a-Service subscribers pay the same as a cash purchase, even though payments are spread over a longer term – eliminating the need for large upfront costs and allowing organisations to benefit from an OPEX-based solution rather than CAPEX.

Scope of the Report: The worldwide market for Rugged Smartphone is expected to grow at a CAGR of roughly xx% over the next five years, will reach xx million US$ in 2023, from xx million US$ in 2017, according to a new GIR (Global Info Research) study. This report focuses on the Rugged Smartphone in global market, especially in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, South America, Middle East and Africa. This report categorizes the market based on manufacturers, regions, type and application.

The contents of the box the WP1 ships in are fairly standard compared to other Chinese manufacturers. The handset itself comes with a screen protector pre-installed and there’s a wall adapter for Type C sockets as well as a USB Type-C cable for charging. A SIM needle is provided for swapping SIM cards while an OTG cable adapter for data transfers and another USB Type-C cable adapter for headphones are included. Finally, a starter guide for the smartphone rounds out the contents of the package.

The Osmo Pocket looks like another compelling product from DJI. The tiny, compact form, camera quality, intelligent features and creative potential make it a steal at $349. The folks at GoPro must be hoping this doesn’t turn into another case of bad karma, particularly as the camera company’s core products are (more expensive) smart action cameras just like this one.

That’s a compromise that almost all Chinese phones come with these days, and for those with both business and personal numbers, it can be a very useful option.

There was a time, back in the 1990s, when a PDA, or Personal Digital Assistant, was the height of mobile computing sophistication. These little hand-held touch-screen devices had no Internet connection, but had preloaded software to manage such things as your calendar and your contacts. [Brtnst] was introduced to PDAs through a Palm IIIc and fell in love with the idea, but became disillusioned with the Palm for its closed nature and lack of available software a couple of decades later.

Its vision of romantic encounters with aliens and plagues of tribbles may not have come to pass just yet, but Star Trek has proved surprisingly accurate in predicting the future in other ways.