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Tablets in POS (point of sale) environment

Need to come up with a tablet to be used in a retail environment that I can lock down with just a very few basic applications like EMAIL, PDF, FACETIME (or equiv). Also need to be able to factory refresh/load to our image quickly as we are talking about several hundred tab lets that will get broken, stolen and need to be replaced on a weekly basis (probably). Don't want to have to go through each replacement manually to set one up.

By the way, this will use cellular data and not wifi.

Does anyone have any suggestions where to start ? I really want to work with a tablet that has good customer support as well.

Thanks in advance !

Eric C

Check out SureLock from 42gears.com. It allows you to lock down a corporate tablet so that it can only run the apps you specify.

https://www.42gears.com/products/surelock/

It works with Android Tablets, Windows Tablets and iOS (iPad).

As for WHICH tablet you select - that depends on your preference for OS (or, more importantly, what OS your app runs on).

From my experience, Android tablets seem to be the most cost-effective.

On each tablet, also ensure you've linked it to some sort of remote find/wipe/manage service. This way in case the tablet gets lost or stolen, you can try to locate it and also remotely wipe/lock it.

jtd1

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Thanks - not worrying about losing or wiping it as much as the ability to quickly clone our tablet image to it. Any idea what tool/utility would work for that "cloning" function ?

Also, not talking about any custom apps here, just PDF, mail and perhaps Excel but don't want ANY other apps available.

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David Johnson, CD

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