Montreal Tech Watch

Amyuni Technologies has launched this week the DevTouch Pro, an alternative tablet to mobile application developers who do not want to follow third-party guidelines and restrictive TOS from leading tablet vendors.

Physically, it has a 7 inch resistive touchscreen, plus other electronic features not far away from other tablets (they all look like these days, in fact). It differs though from any other tablets in integration: it’s offered bare-bones to mobile application developers, who can choose any OS (Android, Windows CE etc.), and fully customize the tablet for one final product. Amyuni will also offer production and distribution of the devices for the developer.

This means this is a device we won’t see on the mass market. It’s targeted for specific applications, for instance when a hospital orders a custom health tablet, or for the defense industry, with customers looking for a closed and secure devices, not accessible by a third-party. Developers might also want to capitalize on their existing talents, without following software guidelines by a device’s constructor. In the case of Apple or Android tablets, customers and developers are taken care of, within strict terms of services and rules. Customers who want take control of their devices (“jailbreaking”) and developers who want to use their own programming languages are discouraged, if not thrown away from the system.

DevTouch Pro doesn’t hassle its users with those restrictions, and as such should be in the eye of mobile product managers. Fast time-to-market, control over the distribution, with also the prospect of being certifiable, Amyuni has come up with a very interesting offer.