6 enterprise mobility things about the Motorola ES400

There has been much comment in the past week about Motorola's latest enterprise mobility EDA the ES400.
A replacement for the MC35 was sorely needed and adding a unit under the popular rugged MC55 MC75 MC9500 trio makes a lot of sense. Making a case for an affordable yet rugged enough device against the never ending list of "shineys" is a not easy.

We have picked out 6 points that might well make this a compelling price/performance device for many users in the enterprise. As you might expect a device like this has a long list of what have become standard elements such as enhanced ruggedness multiple radios, accelerometer, camera hi visibility screen and a fast chipset.

• Device support, deployments in the enterprise need longer than consumer product life cycles. The ES400 is shipping with a 3 year warranty and access to Moto's all inclusive service from the start plans that revolutionised the maintenance offer in the ruggedised device market when it was launched 5 years ago.
  
  
• Available 3080 mAh battery. Rated at 500 hours standby 12 talk time.
  
  
• Good quality illuminated camera for twilight pictures.
  
  
• Built in fingerprint biometrics for user sign on security.
  
  
• Support for Windows Mobile 6.5.3.
  
  
• Red line LED aimer for barcode scan through the camera. Scanning barcodes with the MC35 was hit and miss lets hope this implementation performs better.
  
  

As the wireless networks get more interested in enterprise mobility it will be interesting to see how many ES400's end up being sold as devices on data contracts rather than through traditional industry specific two tier distribution channels. The networks do not tend to specialise in line of business apps for enterprise scenarios that a unit like this is designed to address so we can expect software developers and VAR's still having a role to play.

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