Keith, What size tablet are you looking for? 7" ish? or 10/11" ish? it would help narrow down the choices a fair amount. -Mike
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Keith Lofstrom <kei...@kl-ic.com> wrote: > In a few months, after we get the web-based electronic medical > records systems running at my wife's new office, we will deploy > a few tablet computers. I would like a camera (for scanning > QR codes and photographing skin conditions), some kind of text > data entry, secure communications, and some form of authentication > and time-out, so that if the tablet is left lying about without > activity it will lock, awaiting a password or some kind of > biometric to unlock. Wifi, locked to a single encrypted > access point, no phone. > > Probably some kind of Android tablet. Amazon just announced > the $200 Kindle Fire, based on Android - while that probably > has the appropriate hardware, it may be locked as a walled > garden media platform. > > Probably too early to say what the Fire will permit. If dear > reader learns more about the implementation and linux usability > of this device, please share your discoveries on this list. > Other suggestions welcome - spending a few hundred dollars > extra for something that is Just Right would be fine. > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 > KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" > Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. -- Richard Feynman _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug