Engadget posts about the Motorola Defy, coming to Europe Q4 2010. Dust, scratch and impact-resistant, and conforms to the IP67 water spec, meaning half-an-hour at 1-meter water depth without leakage. Good size screen (3.7″ diagonal) and decent processor (800 MHz OMap, just a bit slower than the 1 GHz typical […]
“Ruggedizing” Your Android Unit
Most Android units these days are standard cellphones, and while I wouldn’t call them “fragile”, they’re mostly not designed for the kind of abuse they can get when used outdoors for mapping and recording the world. The Motorola Defy was the first “rugged” Android unit, billed as water/scratch resistant and dustproof, which […]