![]() The device sits in your hand like a smartphone, doesn’t feel angular or heavy, and has an excellent finish. Zebra delivers on the promise of styling the device as a smartphone. ![]() Looks like a smartphoneĪbout the look and feel of the Zebra EC55 we can be brief. Pretty much everything we say about the EC55 also applies to the EC50. We were sent the EC55 by Zebra to get started with, so we’ll limit ourselves to mentioning it from here on out. By combining the two characteristics, that should be possible. Its purpose is to allow employees to be as productive as possible. Zebra itself calls the EC50 and EC55 a smartphone-style enterprise mobile computer. On top of that, there’s Zebra’s additional software and services, which we’ll get into in more detail below. This means that it is both a business and a personalized device. After all, it is not only a business endpoint with which you can carry out work, but also a smartphone. This new product is in fact also an integrated solution, but in a different way initially. The idea of the new strategy is that everything becomes more data-driven.Īs far as we are concerned, the introduction of the Zebra EC50 and EC55 can certainly be seen as an example of the aforementioned change of course. An example would be mapping an entire warehouse and then making that available through smart glasses. This is an execution layer on the customer side that should streamline data processes. During our conversation with Yager last year, we primarily discussed things like the FulfillmentEdge, one of Zebra’s Intelligent Edge Solutions. Of course, selling scanners and printers still plays a crucial role in Zebra’s strategy, but ultimately it’s about what you can do with them in the real world. It’s increasingly about solutions, not so much just hardware/products anymore. We heard about that last year during a conversation with Chip Yager, VP of Corporate Strategy at the company. Zebra has changed its strategy a bit in recent years. Transition from hardware to integrated solutions The final price depends on all kinds of things, such as the number of devices you purchase and any extra services. If we look at Centralpoint, a Zebra partner in the Benelux, we see a price of 822 euros excluding VAT. Partners determine this to a large extent. The list price of the EC55 that we have in our hands is 1314 euros, but the price that you actually pay as a customer is a lot lower. Besides hospitality, sectors such as retail, warehouse management and healthcare are also important to Zebra with these devices.įor devices like the EC50 and EC55, it is always hard to quote real prices. Ticket scanning in the hospitality sector is also exactly one of the use cases Zebra has in mind with the EC50/EC55. If you have ever stood at an entrance gate to an event and had to watch a staff member spending minutes scanning a barcode with a smartphone camera, you will recognize and agree on this immediately. Scanning with a dedicated module is many times more effective than scanning with the camera of a device. In addition to that, there’s a version with a scan module and one without. Not only in terms of RAM and storage capacity (more on this later), which is common practice in the world of smartphones. The EC55 that we received for testing from Zebra also has several versions. The difference between the two models is that the EC50 is wifi-only, the EC55 has LTE, in addition to wifi. The Zebra EC50 and EC55 are nearly identical devices. The company has recently added the EC50 and EC55 to its portfolio. However, in environments where you need to do a lot of scanning, there is now a product from Zebra Technologies, or rather there are several. Then you can look to vendors of ruggedized devices like Samsung with the XCover line, or go for a Cat device. Especially if it concerns sectors where a standard smartphone is not enough, because the work demands extra features. ![]() Is this really a new category? And does the device really know how to bridge the gap between business and personal? You can read it in this article.ĭespite the rise of BYOD, it is still common practice in many industries to provide employees with a mobile device. We got a chance to take a closer look at the EC55. That is, a personal smartphone that can do more in business environments than a standard smartphone. With the EC50 and EC55, Zebra says it is introducing a new category of ‘individually assigned mobile computer’. ![]()
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