If a camera is important, you can rule out the Kindle Fire. There's a brief look at the hardware specs here: http://thisismynext.com/2011/09/28/amazon-kindle-fire-vs-ipad-2-vs-nook-color-numbers/
- Jason On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 > KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" > Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
