What are you doing?
Huh?
What are you doing over there?
Taking inventory.
Not playing Pokemon!
It doesn't look like you're taking inventory!
Hi, Travis from POSGuys.com.
Today's Ask the POSGuys question actually comes from our tech support department.
They basically were wondering, hey Pokemon Go is out, can we use the mobile computers
with them?
And you actually can.
And then we'll have a follow up section for this video on how can you stop your customers
or your employees from playing Pokemon Go or other games on your mobile computer.
So first off is, it depends what mobile computer you have.
You can run Pokemon Go, I have a TC70 right here, and it sort of runs it, the TC70 is
an inside the four walls solution, so it doesn't have a SIM card, it also doesn't have GPS,
so it can't use a location based game like Pokemon Go.
You can see the pokemon on the screen, but you can't actually do anything with them.
The TC75 is a similar mobile computer, but it's made for outside the four walls, so that
does have GPS, it does have a SIM card, so theoretically, yes you can use Pokemon Go
with it.
A couple other manufacturers, this is a Unitech tablet, it can run Pokemon level games, but
it doesn't have the correct version of Android to run Pokemon Go, so theoretically when the
new OS comes out for it, then it would be able to run it as well.
So then, why would you want to run Pokemon Go on this instead of your phone?
There's a couple good reasons, one is there's things like hand straps, there's vehicle mounts
if you're going to use a bike or a golf cart to drive around and gather things with.
There's also incredible durability with it, this has an IP60 plus seal, so you can get
it wet, you can get dust on it, if you drop it, it's not going to break.
Also the batteries on it are replaceable, you can just pop it out, put a new battery
in, and there you go.
The batteries are also huge, much bigger than a regular cell phone battery.
So overall, it is a good device for playing Pokemon Go if you happen to have one laying
around, or you don't mind letting your employees take your mobile computer out to play games
with.
The tablet also obviously has a bigger screen on it, so if you wanted just more real estate
to just play your games, then it would work as well.
The downside to it is that the processors aren't as cutting edge as a cell phone processor,
so while there are quad core processors available, their not as powerful as the ones you'll see
in consumer devices.
So the second part of the question is how can you stop your employees from playing games
with your devices.
Motorola makes this really simple.
It depends on your manufacturer.
In Android itself, there are settings that allow you to create users and the eliminate
the users, but depending on what OS is on your mobile computer, then that might not be possible.
That feature is disabled by default on the Zebra TC70, but they do give you an app called
Enterprise Home Screen.
When that is launched, then what it does is it restricts use.
So on it, you'll see only 5 apps available, there's much more than 5 apps on it.
The menu is disabled, so you can't pop up the apps, so essentially you can't launch
any applications on it that aren't on this home screen.
In it, under the settings, once you log in and you go back home, then you'll see all
the applications on there.
So in order to add an app, you just hold down, and it will ask if you want to add it, you
say yes, and then when you log in as a non-administrator, then it would be made available.
So this is how they prevent people from using applications on the device that they aren't
supposed to use.
You keep your admin login secret, and then your employees won't be able to use it.
So a very simple solution by Motorola on how you can limit use on the device itself.
Additionally, Android can show you where the data is being used and what is using up the
battery, so if you want to just check on your device and see what's being used, and find
out whether games are being played on your mobile devices or not.
So overall, the TC75 would work with Pokemon Go or any other location based game like that.
There will be other devices coming out from different manufacturers that would also run
it theoretically.
Some of them don't have the correct OS right now, when they do they probably would run it just fine.
You can stop your employees from using the apps by using different kind of security features
built in to the devices themselves.
For more information on the mobile devices, or to purchase, please visit us at POSGuys.com.
Thanks!