Panasonic Toughpad FZ G1 – Making all Work Easy

Panasonic's new Toughpad FZ-G1 tablet provides excellent performance with longer battery life and more computing power. In most cases, a sturdy tablet is not mistaken for a traditional everyday tablet.

Design

 

The Panasonic toughpad fz g1 is bulkier than traditional tablets, but it's hard to find a lightweight and sturdy tablet. The Panasonic Toughpad FZ-G1 weighs only 2.2 pounds, less than half the weight of the durable 5.8 lbsXplore iX104C5DMSR-M2 tablet. The toughpad weighs only 0.8 pounds.

Panasonic advertises the Toughpad FZ-G1 as the world's thinnest 10-inch rugged Windows 8 tablet.

Despite its thinness, the FZ-G1 can be hit. The silver-magnesium alloy chassis comes with an elastomeric coating and corner bumpers to protect it from heavy drops. The ports are covered to keep dust and other irritants out of the device.

 

At the bottom of the screen are some physical buttons. Two of these buttons, labeled A1 and A2, can be customized to perform specific devices' specific functions. In addition to these programmable buttons, there is a volume control key, a Windows button to switch between the Windows 8 tile interface and the desktop, and a power button on the far right.

The ML-STD-810G approved tablet can withstand temperatures from -20 to 140 degrees Celsius, explosive atmospheres, various rain conditions, and other situations that break standard tablets apart.

 

Panasonic boasts that the toughpad can be dropped from a height of 3 to 6 feet to each corner and surface up to 26 times. Its front bumper protrudes slightly from the screen and the magnesium alloy body to prevent the screen from turning upside down.

The Panasonic toughpad fz g1 is a completely sturdy tablet. In other words, it is also IP-65 certified. Ingress Protection Ratings (IP) indicates the amount of environmental stress a device can withstand. The IP-65 rating of the Toughpad means that it cannot be submerged in water but is protected from dust and low-pressure water jets in all directions.

 

Safety features

 

The Panasonic toughpad fz g1 comes with an integrated, trusted platform module (TPM) chip that stores an encryption key that can protect your information. In addition, you can use the BIOS setup utility to enable or disable Computrace anti-theft software. You can also use the included Intel Anti-Theft Technology to find a lost or stolen toughpad remotely. However, other rugged devices such as the Xplore iX104C5 have a built-in fingerprint scanner for biometrics.

 

Display

 

The Panasonic Toughpad FZ-G1's 10.1-inch 1920 x 1200 resolution WUXGA capacity screen displays text and images. Looking at the trailer for Kick-Ass 2, the sturdy tablet's LED-backlit capacity screen delivers bold, vibrant colors. The dark purple shades of the Hitgirl wig were lively, and the action-packed, explosive scene exploded.

The digitizer screen was visible in the sunlight as the brightness increased. I navigated the Windows 8 interface, reading the small text on each tile without any problems.”

Keyboard and stylus

The Panasonic toughpad  fz g1 screen features a glare-resistant coating and a digitizer for accurate pen support. When I moved up about 0.5 inches from the screen, a small round pointer appeared on the screen. The pen was very responsive when selecting text and browsing web pages.