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InHand Electronics proudly announces our third generation platform for custom tablet and display applications. The Hydra-Q6™ tabletincorporates the rugged features of our Hydra line of tablets with a flexible architecture for quickly prototyping and deploying your optimal tablet solution. InHand can provide customization to allow you to get to market with a branded/unique tablet incorporating your specific product requirements. The Hydra-Q6 is based on the proven NXP quad-core i.MX 6 ARM processor.

Packaging for the Hydra-Q6 can customized for tablet, kiosk, display head, Human-Machine Interface (HMI), panel PC, or any type of portable devices. The rugged tablet features the i.MX 6 processor, memory, flash storage, USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth BLE, battery with charger and fuel gauge, sensors including accelerometer and magnetometer, GPS, digital microphone, speakers, and more. A variety of signals can be brought out to an expansion connector enabling the interfaces you require. Functions such as NFC, CAN, magnetic card readers, and custom interfaces can easily be added.  

The Hydra-Q6 tablet features a 7 inch high resolution LCD with resistive touchscreen, MIL-SPEC rugged waterproof enclosure, waterproof connectors, rugged buttons and expansion connector, ambient light sensor, and rugged DC power jack. The tablet can easily be customized with other interfaces, wireless radios, antennas, alternate displays (including different sizes, resolutions, and brightness), capacitive touch, enclosure form-factor and color, private labeling, custom mounts and docks, and more.

Rugged tablets and portable devices offer an extensive number of solutions across a broad range of commercial and industrial needs.

Whereas consumer-grade mobile devices are well-suited to everyday use in homes, schools, and offices, rugged tablets are especially designed for harsh and demanding environments. The number of trades and professions where rugged tablets and portable devices are required are considerable, including:

Medical devices

Military, government, security, and law enforcement

Energy, oil, and gas (including in explosive environments requiring intrinsically safe circuitry)

Instrumentation, test, and measurement

Logistics and transportation (including automotive, locomotive, marine, and aviation)

Construction and trades

Manufacturing

Agriculture

More information can be found from InHand Electronics – an industry leader in the design and manufacture of embedded circuit boards and custom-designed devices for Original Equipment Manufacturers.

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I came on board to InHand Electronics just over a week ago and have spent a lot of my time familiarizing myself with the products and services we offer. Maybe it’s because the Super Bowl is this weekend or football is just always on my mind, but as I learned about InHand’s custom products I immediately thought of a story I read about the NFL. For years the NFL printed out pictures on the sidelines so players and coaches could review them and make game time adjustments. Over the past two seasons, someone realized we are in the 21st century and decided to introduce tablets to this process.

Microsoft paid the NFL $400 million to be the provider of these sideline tablets with the hope of establishing a mutually beneficial relationship for both parties. Microsoft gets exposure to the millions of fans who watch football every Sunday and the NFL has a more advanced way of making in game adjustments, plus an additional $400 million their pocket. However, since Microsoft’s tablets hit NFL sidelines there has been a wave of bad press about them. Most notably, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick went on a rant about the tablets during a post game press conference which included him saying “I’m done with tablets. They’re just too undependable for me.” While Microsoft has publicly defended their tablets and NFL higher ups have done the same, I imagine there have been some tense phone conversations between the two about this. As a league that prides itself on being the best, having a high profile coach rant about bad tablets is not a good look for the NFL.

What could the NFL have done differently to ensure the tablets met their needs? This brings me back to the products and services we offer here at InHand Electronics. We specialize in custom electronics that are specifically designed to meet our customer’s requirements. Microsoft took an existing product they wanted to get exposure to and assumed it could meet the NFL’s needs. We start with a known good product and modify it to meet the specific requirements our customers demand. Our Modified-COTS (Modified Consumer off the shelf) approach reduces risk and time to market for our customers. InHand’s Hydra tablet would have been modified to meet the requirements outlined by the NFL and its coaches, including perhaps creating an NFL branded tablet for them to sell.

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