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 <[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. 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 -- 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
