It depends, here are the questions I would ask before deciding on the solution
i) - What is your volume?
ii) - How big are your products?
iii) - What is the scan range that is required?
iv) - What is the demography of your users? In other words, are your users young, that are savvy with the new technology or older users that are seasoned veterans with older devices?
v) - Are you also exploring wearables? Typically RF handheld devices are the ones that most people use, but there are also hands free options, wearables, that enable workers to do their jobs using both hands
vi) How is your warehouse environment overall? Do you have a modern, clean, sleek and slick facility that is well maintained? Or Do you have an old school, dusty warehouse with old racks etc?
Let us take a step back and understand this evolution, traditionally there were the purpose build barcode scanners, the Motorola, now Zebra scanners, Honeywell scanners, Intermec scanners etc. But with the improvement in technology in the consumer world, Warehouse managers and IT managers supporting those warehouses started wondering, hey why can't I use this technology in my warehouse. So they started deploying them in the warehouses, some of them succeeded and some of them failed. The ones that succeeded typically had lower volumes and of course worked hard and persisted and have a decently working solution, where as the ones that failed vowed to never go back there. Of course this ate into the market for Zebra, Honeywell scanners, so now Zebra and Honeywell are working to design their barcode scanners more on the consumer devices form factor.
You should look at Smart Gladiator, which is a ruggedized consumer device with the same if not more capabilities similar to that of the industrial device.
If your volume is not so much, I would start with a consumer device with a barcode scanner attached to it, then as your volume grows, evaluate other options, if your volume is already high then take a look at rugged devices.