That's much more than almost all non-rugged consumer tablets, $50 more than a mid-range (and decidedly non-rugged) premium smartphone like the Apple iPhone 6 Plus, but $400 less than, for example, the starting price of a 7-inch Android-based Panasonic Toughpad FZ-B2. So what's a fair, reasonable price for a modern, well equipped Android tablet that's also built tough enough to be used out there in the field? Cedar Technologies thinks $899 sounds about right. And today, 7-inch tablets are readily available for barely more than $100 even from the likes of Dell and HP, let alone Amazon. As soon as it was obvious that the iPad was a hit, Chinese "white box" tablets began flooding the market at prices a fraction of that of the iPad. When the iPad finally put the tablet form factor on the map, a mid-range model with wireless data cost around $750 and that's still the case. Traditionally, fully rugged Windows tablet computers have cost as much as several thousand dollars, and even lighter enterprise-class tablets start at $900-1,200. We had a Cedar CT7 in our office for several weeks, and in this report we tell what you can expect from it.įiguring out where a particular tablet fits in these days is not easy. Right upfront: how economically priced? That'd be $899, IP67-sealed, super-rugged, and from a company that understands rugged devices and the customers who buy rugged devices. ![]() One of their flagship products is the elegant and very reasonably priced rugged CT7 tablet. Blickenstorfer, with most photography by Carol Cotton)Ĭedar Tree Technologies, launched in 2014 by the founders of Juniper Systems and partnering with leading industry software providers, provides rugged Android tablets, handhelds and smartphones for the construction and similar industries. Rugged computing experts offer economically priced, fully rugged, full-featured, field-ready IP67-sealed 7-inch $899 Android tablet Rugged PC - Rugged handhelds: Cedar CT7 Tablet
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