Panasonic Toughbook FZ-T1 Launched with IP68, MIL-STD 810G rating Review


Unveiled at an event in Cardiff, the rugged ‘handheld’ as Panasonic Ikes to call it comes with an IP68 water-resistant rating, MIL-STD 810G-certification, and protection against a temperature range of -10 - 50 degree Celsius. the Toughbook is touted to be one of the slimmest rugged handhelds and weighs in at 240 grams.

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Panasonic has been releasing Toughbooks for a while now and the latest offering named the Toughbook FZ-T1 is the worst they could do for a £1,200 (approx. Rs 1,08,132). Unveiled at an event in Cardiff, the rugged ‘handheld’ as Panasonic Ikes to call it comes with an IP68 water-resistant rating, MIL-STD 810G-certification, and protection against a temperature range of -10 - 50 degree Celsius.
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Panasonic claims that the FZ-T1 is one of the most affordable rugged devices running Android and does so by running the latest Android 8.1 Oreo on a lowly specced Snapdragon 210 with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. There’s a 5-inch HD IPS Dragon Trail anti-reflection screen on the front which the company says will work even when a 300g ball is dropped onto the screen from a height of 80cm.

For imaging, there’s an 8-megapixel camera that can capture pictures at a resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels which will also be able to scan 44 various types of barcodes. Since the device equips a low processing chipset, the 3,200mAh battery on the device is expected to go over the 12-hour mark which will be hot-swappable, meaning they can be interchanged without having to power off the device. Currently, Panasonic is providing single/multiple chargers and cradles, battery packs, passive styluses, holster belts and screen protectors, the last of which sounds rather bizarre.

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Weighing in at under 240 grams, the Toughbook is touted to be one of the slimmest rugged handhelds and stretches at a maximum of 13.1mm on its thickest end. While the specifications on the inside and a USB-C port would have been a welcome change, the FZ-T1 being the enterprise device is made for survival and thus comes with triple microphones to filter out excess noises and a 95dB front facing loudspeaker.

The company has earlier unveiled the Panasonic P90 in India as an entry-level device running on a quad-core MediaTek MTK6737 with Android 7.0 Nougat and a 5-inch HD Display.

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