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While consumer grade devices may be viable solutions in limited environments like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/cats\/point-of-sale-system\/\">Point of Sale<\/a>, most enterprise applications will find that for the same costs a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/cats\/portable-data-terminals\/\">dedicated ruggedized mobile device<\/a> will greatly reduce the\u00c2\u00a0Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and improve\u00c2\u00a0your ROI.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v8pkbpdFcfs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For more in depth comparison of consumer based devices vs dedicated mobile devices see this previous post as well &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/?p=3075\">How Durable Handheld Computers are Better Suited to the Mobile Workplace than Consumer-grade Smartphones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the widespread use of consumer grade smartphones and tablets, many business have been looking to these types of devices for a variety of applications. While consumer grade devices may be viable solutions in limited environments like Point of Sale, most enterprise applications will find that for the same costs a dedicated ruggedized mobile device [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[138,224],"tags":[271,144,444,286,226,13],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Hidden Costs of Using Consumer Grade Mobile Devices for Data Collection - Barcoding News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/the-hidden-costs-of-consumer-grade-devices\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Hidden Costs of Using Consumer Grade Mobile Devices for Data Collection - Barcoding News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With the widespread use of consumer grade smartphones and tablets, many business have been looking to these types of devices for a variety of applications. 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