The Japanese electronics brand Panasonic continuously adding new smartphones in its portfolio, and the company launched many affordable smartphones in the Indian market as well. Well, now the company has launched a new smartphone in it’s Toughbook series. If you are unaware about the Toughbook series, then its the company’s series which is known for the rugged products and in this series the company usually launches laptops. However, this time the company launched a smartphone into this series and the smartphone is called Panasonic Toughbook FZ-T1. The smartphone is coming with two variants, Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi + 4G
Design of the Panasonic Toughbook FZ-T1
The device has IP68 and MIL-STD-810G label. The company has tested the device with drops from 1.5m (5 ft) height and it has a working temperature range from -10 to 50°C (14-122°F). Moreover, the device can be used in rain and it can use with gloves.
Specification of the Panasonic Toughbook FZ-T1
The all new Panasonic Toughbook FZ-T1 phone 5 inch LCD display and it has 1280 X 720 pixels resolution. The device is powered by 1.1 GHz quad core Snapdragon APQ8009 processor and paired with 2 GB RAM. In terms of storage, the device has 16 GB of internal storage and can be expandable via microSD card.
Moving to the camera department, the device has an 8 megapixel rear camera with LED flash and unfortunately there is no front camera in this smartphone. Moreover, it has a barcode scanner, which works at short and long ranges. And next year the company will launch an auto-range barcode scanner accessory.
Talking about connectivity, the device supports LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1, NFC, Micro-USB, and a headphone jack. The device runs on the latest Android Oreo 8.1, and it is backed on 3,200 mAh battery with “warm swap”, and the company says that the device will give up to 12 hours of continuous data usage.
Pricing and availability of the Panasonic Toughbook FZ-T1
The Wi-Fi only variant will launch in August at £1,142 (approx. ₹1,03,194) and the 4G variant will launch in September at £1,214 (approx. ₹1,09,700). Moreover, the company also offers three years of warranty.
