Fujitsu Stylistic M532

Android-powered tablets?have largely been a consumer play so far. While it's common to see tablets in retail, transportation, and other businesses, they're by and large Windows XP/7 or iOS devices. Fujitsu, a big name in enterprise, aims to change that with its new Android-powered Fujitsu Stylistic M532 ($549/32GB direct).?Like the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet, the M532 is aimed primarily at business users, with added security features and above-average durability. The M532 runs on a fast quad-core processor and packs plentiful internal storage into its thin chassis. Unfortunately, the M532 suffers from an inaccurate touch screen, a puzzlingly fuzzy display, and a high price tag. If you absolutely must have the Absolute Computrace Mobile security built-in, the M532 is one of only a handful of tablets to offer it, but other than that, it's hard to justify its price.

Design and Features
The Fujitsu M532 is all business, and its classy, understated design reflects that. At 10.3 by 6.9 by 0.35 inches (HWD) and 1.23 pounds, the M532 is large, yet surprisingly slim and light. The black rubberized plastic back has a nice grippy texture to it, reminiscent of the Blackberry Playbook?. Along the top edge is a 3.5mm headphone jack and the power button. To the right are the volume buttons, micro USB port, and a plastic flap that covers a microSD card slot. The bottom houses a proprietary 30-pin dock connector. There is no HDMI out, and you must use the dock connector for charging and the micro USB port for syncing separately. Fujitsu does sell a docking cradle ($69 direct) which allows HDMI out and USB inputs. There are two speakers on the back, and while they're a bit small, they get pretty loud and don't sound overly harsh.?

The M532 is also billed as a semi-rugged tablet with a MIL-STD-810G rating, which means it should hold up to some shock, drops, high and low temperatures, and vibrations.

The 10.1-inch 1,280-by-800-pixel display is, on paper, par for the course, but it's a low-quality panel. It's the same resolution found on the Asus Transformer Pad TF300, but where the TF300's display looked crisp and sharp, the display on the M532 is fuzzy. Text, for example, looks a bit out of focus depending on how zoomed in it is. The touchscreen is also inaccurate. Touches would occasionally register in wrong spots, and I noticed a bit of delay when dragging my finger across the screen. Scrolling with a single finger would often cause random bouts of zooming in and out, exacerbating the fuzzy text problem. This didn't happen all the time, but it was often enough to cause frustrating distractions. The screen itself gets moderately bright, but is prone to reflections that make it difficult to use outdoors in bright sunlight.

The tablet has an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Both are pretty typical tablet cameras?they aren't spectacular, but they are serviceable. Images in good lighting look well balanced, with a fair amount of detail, but the camera really struggles in low light, producing images with almost no detail. The rear-facing camera can also shoot 1080p video at a steady 30 frames per second, but I noticed a bit of motion blur and poor image stabilization. The front-facing camera is fine for Skype calls, but not much else.

This is a Wi-Fi only tablet that connects to 802.11b/g/n networks on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequencies. GPS and Bluetooth 3.0 are on board as well. The default 32GB configuration has 26.53GB of free internal storage. Our 32 and 64GB SanDisk microSD cards worked fine, but the card slot is a bit too recessed and requires either long nails or something to poke the card fully into place. The M532's video player supports MPEG4, H.264, and AVI videos, but not Xvid or DivX. For audio, the M532 supports MP3, AAC, OGG, and WAV, but not FLAC or WMA.

In our battery rundown test, which loops a video with screen brightness set to max and Wi-Fi on, the M532 lasted only 5 hours, 2 minutes. It was a good deal shy of the TF300's 7 hours, 53 minutes and on the low side for 10-inch tablets. For a business-oriented tablet, I would have liked to see longer battery life.

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