Panasonic’s 7- and 10-inch BizPads port the Honeycomb drizzle to Japan’s enterprise set

Salarymen, get those contactless employee IDs set to swipe. Panasonic’s throwing your overcaffeinated ilk a bone with two Honeycomb-based enterprise slates for release this winter. Coming under the BizPad umbrella, these 7- and 10.1-inch Android 3.2 tablets are ruggedized for the street warrior treatment, offering the clumsy and sleep-deprived alike dust-, drop- and water-proof protection . Both tabs pack a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, 16GB of onboard storage, 1GB RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth and NFC capability (via its IC card reader), however the shared specs end there. While the bigger tab certainly wins out with its higher resolution, digitizer-friendly WXGA 1280 x 800 IPS capacitive display (vs. WSVGA 1024 x 600 resistive LCD display), the more diminutive of the bunch gets the easier 5 megapixel camera (vs. 1.3 megapixel) and optional 3G connectivity. No word yet on pricing or a real launch date, but don’t let that stop you from petitioning your IT department straight away.

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