http://www.dixons.co.uk/gbuk/samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-p7500-wifi-16gb-black-10983417-pdt.html

Cisco Tablet is only £700, well thats what i can get it for if you want one

looks like there is a bunch of a barcode scanners that are usb/bluetooth that work with Android without an issue which is nice. The question now is what tablet to go for, was reading a review on the Asus Transformer TF101
http://www.ebuyer.com/262117-asus-transformer-tf101-tablet-pc-tf101-1b027a

Which looks alright, not bad price and a big screen. Any reccomendations?

Any with a USB port and the right software will work won't it? You've got a choice of either Android or Windows, latter being the easiest for your situation if you already have software that you can install on it (for the bar code reader).

Pretty sure you could use the camera to read the bar codes if you're not using a USB attached bar code reader - quite a bit slower though.

We aren't on a cisco budget I'm afraid, I'd be looking for an all-rounder that could double up as a nice toy if this whole thing turns out to be useless? :lol:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11156/index.html

:D

Take a look at the ThinkPad X60 Tablet PC - Very well made piece of kit

Were getting new panasonic toughbooks CF1-U1's for our work order dispatch system at work. Run Win7, have USB Serial etc WiFi GPS Bluetooth.

Fucking expensive though.

http://www.toughbook.eu/products-and-services/umpc/cf-u1

Be wary of the cheap and cheerful stuff as they normally have awful touchscreens. I'm sure most andriod devices can accept USB inputs?

The first thing that comes to mind would be an Archos 9 tablet as that runs Windows 7 on an Intel Atom processor. It has USB ports and has a decent sized screen.

There are a few generic versions of these you can buy on Ebay from China, some of which run Atom processors others which run different architecture with Windows CE or XP on them which might not fully support your hardware?

We had a few MSI winds at my last place for just this Will (admittedly before tablets really came out). Did the job and was cheap

Hello,

I need a portable device I can plug a USB barcode scanner into and scan in barcodes, been thinking of using a tablet but not clued up on them so was wondering what the wonderful men of Geek Day suggest?

Device needs to be light, portable, OK battery life and the application I'm reading the barcodes into will be a web browser as thats how we access our stock system. Needs to have Wifi but I assume pretty much all tablets have this? Screen needs to be a decent size but keeping the weight down.

Anyone done anything like this before? The stuff they use in tescos/big stores are far too expensive and the screens are too small as I'll need to navigate round a website before entering the barcodes in.

All input welcome, thanks :wave: