Waterproof tablet: Fujitsu Arrows

Fujitsu leads the way in terms of fashionable Android-powered phones that are waterproof – their latest model being the Fujitsu-Toshiba ARROWS ES IS12F. Despite being waterproof, you will not be able to tell it with a glance, considering how svelte it is at just 6.7mm thin. After all, waterproof devices tend to be part of the rugged variety, and those are normally not thin at all.
What about the system specifications?
Fujitsu has packed in the Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread operating system coupled with a snappy 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8655 processor. A 4″ AMOLED display with 480 × 800 resolution and 100,000:1 contrast ratio will certainly please your eyes, even when you are underwater and need to scroll through your text messages.

The Fujitsu Arrows Tab LTE F-01D was introduced in Japan in October of this year, and now looks to be heading to Americas and Europe. Proofed at up to 1 meter of water, the Arrows Tab also has camera-based gesture controls, so you can interact with it while it’s sitting at the bottom of your bathtub, across the kitchen from you while cooking, or however else you’re planning on using a waterproof tablet. It seems to be a slightly-less-rugged — but cheaper — competitor to the recently-announced $1,299 Panasonic ToughPad A1, and hopefully Fujitsu will bring it stateside soon

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BASIC SPECS
Thickness 0.44 inches
Weight 1.32 pounds
Screen size (diagonal) 10.1 inches
Operating system Android
Launch OS version 3.0
Media streaming DLNA
CPU brand TI
CPU family OMAP 4

HARDWARE
Height 7.13 inches
Width 10.31 inches
Thickness 0.44 inches
Weight 1.32 pounds
Primary orientation Landscape
Color Black / White
DISPLAY
Screen size (diagonal) 10.1 inches
Technology LCD
Resolution (X) 1280 px
Resolution (Y) 800 px
Touchscreen type Capacitive
Multitouch Yes
SOFTWARE
Operating system Android
Launch OS version 3.0
Media streaming DLNA
PROCESSOR
CPU brand TI
CPU family OMAP 4
Clock speed 1 GHz
CONNECTIVITY
Other carriers NTT Docomo
3G Yes
GSM Yes
4G Yes
LTE Yes
Max. WWAN downlink speed 37.5 Mbps
Wi-Fi Yes
Wi-Fi support 802.11n, 802.11g, 802.11b
802.11n frequencies 2.4GHz
Tethering / mobile hotspot Yes
FRONT CAMERA
Effective pixels 1.3 megapixels
REAR CAMERA
Effective pixels 5.1 megapixels
PORTS
Data connections USB

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