MWC 2012: Waterproof Fujitsu Arrows Tablet Close-Up

Fujitsu has brought a somewhat unusual tablet to this year's edition of the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2012) taking place in Barcelona, Spain. 

Where it is showing off the Arrows smartphone (which we filmed shrugging off clobbering from metal balls here), Fujitsu also has the Arrows tablet on display. 

Even from a cursory glance, one can tell this is not just any slate: the membrane surrounding its edges clearly show something is different, compared to the likes of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1), Galaxy Note 10.1 or Huawei's MediaPad 10 FHD. 

Basically, the Fujitsu Arrows tablet is waterproof (IPX5-7), so that owners may take it with them to the kitchen, to use as web assistant while cooking and throwing steam everywhere, for example. 

The company also assures us that the bathroom is no longer off-limits either. Even water submersion should easily be survived. 

The one feature that may be somewhat underwhelming is the operating system: Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) instead of 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). 

The hardware is quite decent, though, even if Fujitsu chose not to use NVIDIA's Tegra platform. 

Instead, the Texas Instruments OMAP4430 dual-core CPU is present, with its clock speed of 1 GHz. 

16 GB of built-in NAND Flash storage are available, as is 1 GB of RAM (random access memory) and a microSD card slot (up to an extra 32GB). 

Now we reach the interesting part: in addition to Bluetooth 2.1+EDR wireless support and Wi-Fi, Fujitsu also implemented 2 GHz LTE. 

The UMTS frequency band support is of 2 GHz / 800 MHz, while the GSM frequencies are 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1,800 MHz and 1,900 MHz. 

Finally, the 10.1-inch display features a native resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels, plus capacitive multi-touch support. 

As for video chatting or taking photos and videos, the company added a 1.2-megapixel webcam on the front and a 5.1-megapixel camera on the back.

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