14 DAY TRIAL // Finnish company Aava Mobile has just released a tablet called Inari, aimed specifically at vertical markets and enterprises.
The slate is not the sleekest and thinnest you have ever seen, but that’s because the maker did not focus on design aesthetics.
Instead, it concentrated on delivering a solid and strong mobile solution for professionals working in fields like health care, construction or manufacturing.
Aava Mobile claims Inari has been manufactured in such a way that it can drop from a height of 1 m and come out unharmed. The tablet is designed in such a fashion that taking it into risky environments will not pose an issue.
Inari is reported to be water-proof, shock-proof and dust-proof, so there’s not much that can harm its durability.
The screen is intelligently built as it allows for two different screen sizes: an 8.3” one for when it is handled with one hand and a 10” screen with a resolution of 1920 x 1200.
On the inside the Aava tablet features a 1.3-GHz Baytrail 3470 CPU, 2GB or RAM with 64 or 128GB of storage capacity. A whole host of ports are also available: a USB 2.0 port, a microSD card slot, a micro USB. 3.0 port and a mini HDMI.
Video features can be essential in fields such as medicine so workers can video chat, thanks to the 2-MP camera. The rear 8-MP one can snap pictures of injuries, charts of products.
The Inari is a Windows 8.1-powered machine, and allows professionals to run standard applications for Windows especially tailored for their field.
A stylus is also provided for fast modification of charts and plans.
Battery life is supposed to last up to 10 hours. However, the battery is removable and can be replaced with a secondary battery pack when needed. At the moment, Aava Mobile hasn’t set a definitive price on the sturdy Inari. Chief Marketing Officer Piotr Frasunkiewicz has stated that the company is still surveilling the prices imposed by other firms tapping into the vertical markets.
More than that, the Inari name might be changed. By the time the mobile device maker launches the slate, it could be called something else entirely.