Sprint announces rough, rugged Motorola ES400S enterprise handheld

By on Sep 29, 2010 at 1:15 PM
General September 29, 2010

Today, Sprint announced the availability of the ES400S, a rough, rugged, Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone from Motorola. The availability of the handset marks the first time that a branded and stocked Motorola enterprise device has been sold through a wireless carrier. Certified for MIL-STD 810G, a 4-foot drop, and IP42 sealing specifications, the ES400S will be available at the end of October to qualifying business customers for $499.99. The ES400S sports a biometric fingerprint reader, VoIP capabilities, Wi-Fi a/b/g, GPS, 3-inch touchscreen display, EV-DO Rev. A, HSPA/GSM for travel, and 256 MB RAM. This thing looks like it could take a licking and keep on ticking, no?

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  • Mohammad

    yay!

  • Dale

    At last, a “non-toy” phone for serious businesses ! Go Motorola !

  • Cha_pimp

    499.99 really? who is this aimed for again?

    • Dale

      For “qualifying business customers” as stated in the article.

    • zee

      it would help if you went to school to read not only numbers but letters.

  • Norm

    No DROID OS? FAIL!

    • Dale

      Norm,

      The targeted demographic for this device is the practical, “no nonsense” businesses that need a durable field unit for warehouse inventory taking,etc.

      Android is not necessary for those functions. I doubt that the users are going to be viewing movies, listening to streaming music, or concerned about how pretty their phone displays are.

      • PAPINYC

        Dale
        ‘The targeted demographic for this device is’ about 5 people. This device will undoubtedly be offered on Best Buy Mobile’s “Free Phone Fridays” program starting next month and will be ‘free’ every week!

      • SKINNI

        So there are only 5 business people in the world? Sorry guy but not everyone needs a phone that will play Angry Birds between fliping Whopper patties at BK. No way in hell id buy it but there are thousands that can conduct serious business with this phone. Possibly even the military

  • PAPINYC

    I can’t believe a carrier would even dare release a Windows Mobile 6.5 at this point, let alone home of the EVOOO! And, that’s the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen. Can you say 1999?

  • TONY

    I think someone had sex in the Hot Tub Time Machine again.

  • Josh

    The reason it runs windows mobile 6.5.3 is because it is meant for business use. And by business use, I mean for things like couriers, drivers, field service, etc. All of those professions have a tremendous amount of partners and software designed to run on windows mobile that will never be ported to iOS or Android because microsoft has over a 90% market share with windows ce and windows mobile in the enterprise rugged sector.

    My company has already bought 200 of them from another reseller because we are a logistics company and by switching to this device we will save thousands of dollars each year.

    FYI, you can get it for $600 from another reseller and they won’t lock it to sprint only so you can use it with whatever carrier you want whether that be tmobile, verizon, at&t or sprint whenever you chose.

    • Dale

      Josh,

      BRAVO !!!

    • Miguel Sanchez

      Would you happen to have the names of any resellers? I am interested in this, as I do logistics for a smaller retail chain & this phone seems like it would solve a lot of the headaches that I have to deal with.

  • nate

    wow my lg expo has a finger her print reader too

  • 3 Phones Jugglin

    Impressive considering the market its targeted towards….and its typical Sprint to be the only carrier offering this type of device and it not be a Nextel.

  • serpentor

    Did anyone see the rugged $600 (w/ 2yr contract) nextel they just started carrying?

    • zee

      i hate to say this but i think not only are so shit dumb stupid but you expect to get one on launch day! thats it i think i will go kill my self, yes i think i will. there im dead are you happy now.

  • bob

    AWES
    OME
    MIC
    ROSOFT
    you’ve figured out a way to make winmo 6.5 ugly too!

  • Jasmine

    Yea, T-Mobile made this device available over 6 weeks ago. you wont find it on the website though, you have to talk to a business sales rep.

  • josh

    if that was windows 7 I would be interested.

  • mike

    All of you are worried about looks . The last model of this typre of device was over $1000. People oin the field like service techs have there own pretty phone to use for themselves. This is a rugged mil spec unit and not for a consumer market at all. I’m done.

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