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RuggedPCReview.com Full Reviews

Detailed inhouse reviews
(by Conrad H. Blickenstorfer)

Rugged PC Review is your source for news, information and reviews of rugged, semi-rugged and durable mobile computing equipment. We're the industry's clearinghouse for independent reviews. Our editors and reviewers have decades of experience in analyzing the toughest mobile equipment around. Some worked for rugged equipment manufacturers. Some are consultants and specialists in certain core technologies.

We pride outselves in listing every relevant mobile computer, be it a handheld, PDA, notebook, slate or tablet. Each and every one we find, or that is brought to our attention, is described and listed with all pertinent specs. However, we cannot possibly do full reviews of ALL equipment out there. That is reserved for particularly interesting machinery and for the products of manufacturers who we have relationships or sponsorships with and who have made machines available and opened their own labs to us.

This section is a compilation of the major full reviews RuggedPCReview.com has conducted over the past couple of years. Many are very detailed, some up to 4,000 words -- far more than you'll ever find in a print magazine review.

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--Conrad H. Blickenstorfer
Recent reviews/additions
Metrologic SP5700
MobileDemand xTablet T8700
Data Ltd DLI 8300
Dell Latitude XT Tablet PC
Toshiba Portege R500
Juniper Systems Archer
LXE MX8
Intermec CK32IS
Intermec CN3
Dell ATG D630
Symbol MC35
Psion Teklogix WorkAbout Pro G2
4P FDA600
4P FDA300
GETAC V100
HHP Dolphin 7850
Trimble Nomad 800
LXE HX3
Augmentix XTG630
Trimble Nomad 800 preview
Datalogic Skorpio
Datalogic Pegaso
Datalogic Memor
Datalogic Jet
Trimble Juno ST
CATCHER CCAP
Itronix GoBook MR-1
Datalogic GoBook VR-2
MobileDemand xTablet T8600
Itronix DynaVue Technology
Toshiba Portege R400
GETAC A790
Outdoor readable screens 07
Talla-Tech RPDA-57 Juno ST
Talla-Tech Tacter-31M
Fujitsu U8240 UMPC
Panasonic CF-08
GETAC M230
Socket SoMo 650
Motion Computing LE1700
Symbol/Motorola MC35
Motorola MW810
Motorola ML910
The UMPC at the end of 2006
PacStar 3500
Psion Teklogix 8515
Motion Computing C5
Toshiba Portege R400
Panasonic CF-19
Panasonic CF-30
Dell Latitude ATG
Toshiba Tecra M7
Electrovaya PowerPad 95
Otterbox 7000
Symbol WT 4000 Series
Electrovaya SC-3100
WalkAbout Hammerhead Xtreme
ViewSonic V38r
Itronix GoBook XR-1
MobileDemand xTablet T8600
Itronix Hummer
Twinhead Durabook D13RI
Toshiba Tecra M4
Twinhead N15RN
Itronix GoBook VR-1
Motion LS800
Xplore iX104C2
TDS Ranger 500X
PDFs of full reviews
GETAC A790
GETAC M230
GETAC V100
GD-Itronix DynaVue
GD-Itronix MR1
GD-Itronix VR2
GD-Itronix XR1
MobileDemand T8600
MobileDemand T8600 update
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