Basic Principles Of Handheld Mobile Device Design

Tablets (tablet computers) and similar handheld mobile devices such as smartphones and e-readers are now increasingly in use both for the mainstream public as well as throughout industry. Custom mobile electronic devices are often designed and deployed for specific field applications. These devices have overlap in their features and capabilities. Understanding the principles and features of handheld mobile device design is critical for successful deployment.

In preparation for designing a new handheld mobile device, it is important to analyze the requirements of the user as well as the unique use cases of the device within its specialized niche. Beyond portability, what are the requirements of a handheld tablet device design?

The fundamental goal for a handheld computing device is to merge a good user experience (UX) with the features and design characteristics that easily enable its application use while operating in difficult environments. Handheld mobile devices commonly feature a display, touchscreen and/or buttons for user interaction, a battery, a rugged enclosure, and often wireless communications or ports for plugging in cables that allow for external communications. These elements must be integrated together in a way that enables functionality without being too heavy or bulky.

Some further details to consider include the following:

Miniature screens designed with the user in mind: The small-sized screens must fulfill a number of criteria, which focus on the hand, finger, and eye. This means:

• All text must be easily read and all images and video must be easily viewed over a broad range of lighting conditions, from pitch black through indoor lighting levels, and often in direct sunlight.
• Touchscreens must correctly detect touches and swipes whether by bare or gloved fingers, in dry and wet environments.

Peripherals that do the job: Each device is designed for a purpose, perhaps to sense its environment or to communicate information with a remote server. The mobile device must include the proper circuitry and interfaces to enable the application, and be seamlessly integrated electrically, mechanically, and with supporting software.

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InHand Introduces Its Third Generation Rugged Tablet – The Hydra-Q6™

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.

InHand’s Modified COTS approach allows us to quickly modify its circuitry, external connections, operating system, enclosure, and look/feel of the tablet to meet your exact requirements in a quick and cost effective manner. Whether the customization is to remove features to cost reduce the solution or add application unique features, InHand has more than likely done it before! Our experience reduces your time to market, cost and risk.

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The Importance of an IP67 or IP68 Rating for Your Rugged Tablet

Whether it’s for manufacturing, field use or any other harsh environment, having the best rugged tablet available that can withstand dust, dirt, moisture and physical abuse is paramount. Since dust and moisture can wreak havoc with electronics, the IP Rating is an important consideration when choosing the right mobile computer. But what exactly is the IP rating and how does it affect ruggedness?

Informally referred to as ‘ingress protection,’ the IP Code, or formally the International Protection marking is the performance and safety rating standard set by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) for electronic devices. IP ratings play a key role in industrial and rugged mobile computing environments as they set the standard measurement for dust and water ingress into an electronic device. In other words, it specifies the level of protection required from foreign bodies and liquid.

While the IP standards for ingress protection, the two digits following it reflect the scale of protection that the device brings in two classification areas. The first digit reflects the protection from solid objects while the second digit reflects protection from liquids. The higher the number of each digit, the greater the level of protection. Since there are applications where the one or the other of the classifications does not apply, they can be replaced by an X, such as IPX6.

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How Efficient and Reliable is Your Medical Grade Tablet?

Mobile digital access via a medical grade tablet has become a high priority for healthcare organizations in 2018. This can be seen in the fact that 79.8 percent use tablets and 42.6 percent use smartphones to access the information needed to provide and coordinate care. This is according to a new HIMSS Analytics study of 129 C-suite executives, IT professionals, clinicians and department heads.

A closer look at the needs of the healthcare continuum when it comes to digital mobility shows complex variable environment conditions and specialized use case needs of the healthcare environment. Often, mobile digital tools for medical applications require a level of ruggedness and customized functions that commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) devices cannot provide.

The requirements of medical grade tablets and other medical devices are broad and challenging to meet. Today’s customizable approaches for mobile tablet technology provide a level of reliability, security, ruggedness, and agility required in the medical industry.

Time management and ability to get the job done in wide ranging environments is critical for all healthcare personnel. Having a versatile medical-focused rugged tablet computer increases efficiency and maximized patient care.

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Industrial Tablets and Their Role in Automation Industry

Manufacturing 4.0 has ushered in levels of automation that require seamless management, monitoring and operation of machines (including machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and the industrial internet of things (IIoT)). Technology like automation and the IIoT are the foundation of smart factories. Industrial tablet technology is critical for production line workers, service technicians, quality engineers, and others in enabling real time, mobile-based operations.

In highly regulated manufacturing industries, production machinery and systems need to be regularly calibrated to stay in compliance. Manufacturers are starting to use mobile-based sensors to capture this data and report it in real time. A rugged industrial tablet enables workers to immediately receive alerts, analyze data, connect to machinery and sensors both with cables and wirelessly, and in general enable real time diagnosis and management of manufacturing operations while improving efficiency and safety, and eliminating mistakes and rework.

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Rockville, MD 20850
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Custom Made Tablets: Tough from the inside out!

Custom-made tablets have the advantage of being tough from the inside out because the designs and features will have been specially manufactured for particular users, some of which involve the most demanding needs in the harshest environments. Additionally, custom-made tablets – such as custom medical tablets – must meet both brand manufacturer and end-user standards.

The qualities of tough, durable customizable tablets and custom rugged tablets will depend on the industry and the user. It is most likely that a primary feature such tablets will require will be a shock-proof housing that will keep the tablet functioning despite drops and heavy bumps. Such durability must also apply to a shatter-proof touch screen and display assembly. What’s more, rugged tablets must be impervious to environments that are commonly found in warehousing, logistics, manufacturing, and transportation. This means the tablet will need to be resistant to dusty and even moist and wet environments with extreme hot and cold temperatures.

Custom made tablets must meet the stringent standards of Original Equipment Manufacturers that produce the tablets and the rigorous needs of the user. This can include demanding applications in fields of medicine, law enforcement and security, military, and many industrial applications.

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Rockville, MD 20850
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Lightweight and Portable, Custom Linux and Android Tablets can replace a laptop in many applications

The lightweight and portable nature of Linux and Android tablets make them ideal candidates to replace laptop computers in many mobile applications, particularly when the tablets can be customized to suit the needs of users.

Android and Linux Tablets are smaller and easy to carry and are perfect for cloud computing applications and Internet-based information sourcing and processing. In many instances, the benefits of using an Linux or Android Tablet are clear– particularly if customized or custom-made – to replace your laptop.

The reasons why Linux and Android Tablets are so ideal for replacing laptops are numerous. To begin, Tablets offer greater mobility due to the thin and lightweight nature of the devices. Linux and Android Tablets may lack some of the hardware and peripheral ports of a PC or laptop, but these potential shortcomings are easily overcome with an external wired or wireless device, software modifications, and customization. It simply depends on what you require your Tablet to do and what environment it will be exposed to.

Original Equipment Manufacturers of handheld portable devices and those seeking state-of-the-art custom designs of embedded circuitry boards, tablets, and rugged tablets, and custom software and engineering services will benefit from the industry leading expertise of InHand Electronics, Inc. InHand Electronics serves a broad range of industries, including utilities and transportation, industrial, Internet of things, aviation, medical, and military and defense.

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