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        <title><![CDATA[Six reasons why tablets will replace desk phones]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have tried all popular applications which provide VOIP calls on my tablet *** phone (The Mighty Dell Streak) &amp; my desktop computer. Surprisingly the most popular &amp; leading products have failed to meet my expectations on the computer system however the applications tend to work better on the tablet.What I also surprisingly experienced was that a 3rd party PBX dialer used a fragment of the bandwidth required as compared to the popular VOIP providers.Ability to dial emergency numbers is also available on the Real PBX dialer as well as other high end features which can make my phone (which is android based) to a complete business phone.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ChyrillStucker]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 05:09:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Desktop or Tablet]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Telework won't necessarily become cheaper - just easier to manage. The powerful desktop systems are not built for mobility, but tablets are. Also, tjhe easy to use aspects of tablets increase the learning curve, they use practically any network present (Cellular, Wifi etc). If you are involved in a Telework program and use your home desktop, then there may be a thin client or remote desktop agent running to get you inside your corporate networks.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mkogrady]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:29:43 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Paperless???]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How many times does a document get written on a computer, 500 (or how ever many) copies printed, only to find an error and the whole thing gets reprinted instead of just the relevent parts. Tablets in the workplace could go a long way to correcting this.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gandgareth]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:01:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Doesn't apply inside a corporation's network.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I don't think it's been effectively enforced outside either, but a private individual or company can certainly communicate internally by whatever means they can afford.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:56:14 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Okay, I'll bite.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How will tablets facilitate transitioning to teleworking when cheaper, more powerful desktop systems haven't already done so?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:54:12 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[But...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The mobile phone manufacturers and telecom companies have successfully lobbied the FCC to prohibit laptops and tablets from making phone calls.  Hmmm, whose best interest will the FCC be promoting tomorrow?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mustang84]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:47:33 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Privacy]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The standard desk phone has two important features that have so far been completely ignored in this discussion:1. A mouthpiece that enables me to talk quietly out of my mouth (unlike most ear-mike users, who pretend to talk out of the ear).2. An earpiece that both blocks external noise to that ear and keeps one side of the conversation entirely in the ear of the intended recipient.What happened to the idea of private conversations?! I don't want a crowd listening in to me or the person with whom I'm speaking. My business discussions are not intended for public consumption, even within my office group, but it goes doubly so for personal matters.Moreover, I don't want to hear the noise of you and your correspondent as you (singular and especially you plural) converse on tablet speakerphones. THE DUE DATE WAS ORIGINALLY FRIDAY, BUT CAN YOU GET THAT DOCUMENT TO ME BY MIDAFTERNOON ON THURSDAY? DON'T WORRY. IT'LL BE IN YOUR EMAIL EXACTLY 48 HOURS FROM NOW AT LUNCHTIME WEDNESDAY. BY THE WAY, IS YOUR SPOUSE STILL SUFFERING FROM THAT BOUT OF FOOD POISONING AND EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA? ALSO, CAN YOU MULTIPLY THE PHONE NOISE BY EIGHT TO INCLUDE THE CUBICLE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF ME, THE THREE BEHIND ME AND THE THREE OPPOSITE ME? I'M GETTING TOTALLY DISTRACTED BY THE NOISE AND CAN'T HEAR MYSELF THINK.So, don't talk nonsense about the all-tablet-speakerphone office replacing the relative peace and quiet of talking into a mouthpiece and listening to the phone's receiver. For a reality check, refer to television having caused the death of radio and movie theaters, or as mentioned already by others in this discussion, the paperless office.Enough from me. Someone else, please address why I wouldn't replace my phone and my beautiful 30-inch monitor for graphic intensive work with a puny tablet.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[SirWizard]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:01:56 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Monthly Tablet Connectivity Fees]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Tablets require an Internet service plan in order to provide the phone functionality presumed by the author of this article.  In a business setting, I simply would not allow an employee to use free open wi-fi for that purpose.  I can provide full hosted PBX telephony service to my clients for a lot less per user per month than the pricey data plans carriers are offering today for tablets.  I agree that tablets can perform both voice and video call functions, but the real question here is at what cost in terms of monthly recurring expense and with what degree of security.  If you try to take the BYOD phenomenon at face value without questioning how a consumer-level device maps to business imperatives, you will eventually get bitten in the backside in ways that you didn't even imagine.  I'd like to see a rewrite on the article that provides a deep and thoughtful analysis of all of the risks and rewards.  This one was too superficial to be of much value for most business owners and their IT consultants.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bob N.]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:42:01 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Not going to happen any time soon]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Since video streaming relies on fatter data pipes and US data carriers don't want to spend money on their infrastructure to make it happen, the &quot;portable office phone&quot; part of this is at least 5 years away in the US and more likely will not happen until after 2020.  Businesses might enable internal video conferencing, but it will require infrastructure upgrades there also.  No earlier than 2014 for early adopters, 2016 to reach 30% of major corporations, 2020 to reach the tipping point of a majority of all corporations being able to support it internally (inside the site only).This article is totally &quot;pie-in-the-sky&quot;.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[gevander]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:05:39 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Telework for the masses]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Tablets will be a great enabler for a national telework program. Getting us weaned off oil and using something a lot less damaging to the environemt makes a lot of sense.Apple sold millions of tablets, and the other vendors are adding to the mix as well. On a national basis I estimate we could have up to 30 million Telecommuters - enough to drive down prices at the pump and free up our roads by eliminating congestion. To this we can add - saving 60 million gallons of gas per day or avoiding 250 million pounds of CO2 and other nasty tail pipe emissions.One final hursle is the Federal Government, who is hopelessly addicted to the taxes generated by gasoline sales. If you think I'm kidding - ask Al Gore (the inventor of the Internet?) why he omitted the words Telecommuting or Telework from his book. It was a bit Inconvenient if you ask me!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mkogrady]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:33:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'll agree, with the stipulation]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[that the uses you describe require installing VOIP infrastructure, something that isn't mentioned in the original article.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:30:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[We have a VOIP PBX...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-390224-3655902]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[that uses a call center system which we log into from our PCs. Calls are then routed from a central number to workers' desk phones. We can remote into the call center system too, so an employee can route calls to their home or cell if they need to. Let me know when you have a solution that replaces that...and is free. We're not going to be spending money to fix what ain't broke. I'd like to see the ROI claim for this too. Desk phones and their systems tend to last decades. Tablets, not so much methinks. Sure, they can be used to do more things, but I'd really like to see some numbers that prove they're less expensive or that they provide capabilities that justify the extra cost. Then there would be the funding wars. Phone systems tend to come out of facilities budgets. Tablets would be IT. No doubt that would get ugly as they do a money tug-o-war.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mckinnej]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:29:30 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It sounds like you're running privately,]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[as opposed to a corporate environment.  I base that on your mentioning 'anywhere where I can get cell service'.  I don't think many offices are going to find it economically feasible to provide a cell connection as a replacement for all desk phones.  I agree with you as far as mobile employees, but I suspect most of them have already ditched desk phones in exchange for cell phones.  I also suspect they'll keep a cell even if they have voice / video on tablets, simply because a phone is smaller and easier to carry.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:28:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Will Tablets Replace Desk Phones]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The author commented that the new camera on the IPAD will impact UC. I disagree.  The new camera faces forward away from the user.  Although there are some applications where a back facing hi-res camera is needed, the front facing camera for video conferencing is still VGA.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[michael@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:39:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Will Tablet Replace Desk phones:]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm sure they will in the long future.  The mobile person in sales, corporate executives, etc already do their communicating out in the field.  The desk bound types like office personnel  that are at their desks most of the day really would not benefit considering that their phone systems are already installed and all they have to do is plug in. On top of that office phones are cheap compared to tablet.  We paid around $180 per phone for a primo setup in our office.  I guess it's a sit a wait situation .....  Exciting though!!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ypsrudy]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:51:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I've disconnected my desk phone]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have a Samsung Series 7 Slate running the Consumer Preview loaded with Bria via our VOIP PBX, Microsoft Lync and Spark.  I can call anyone, chat, etc from my tablet anywhere where I get cell service and it looks like I'm in the office to whoever I call.  For the last 4 months, my tablet has been my desk phone.  Now I don't think that desk phones will go away but for the highly mobile employee, the need for a desk phone could evaporate.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Skruis]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:40:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Not so]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[@Palmetto: That isn't true. My company has VoIP desk phones and VoIP  soft phones (on PC's) and now has Microsoft Lync as well. Though Lync is primarily an IM service, it has the ability to make calls via our VoIP system. When at home, I can VPN into the company network, then make calls anywhere in the world. This is important as I sometimes have to support systems in India at two in the morning. Where I think the author is mistaken is that tablets will be the replacement for the desk phone. I think it more likely that a service like Lync will front the phone system and apps like the Lync client, which is available on iOS and Android, will find its way onto user's cell phones. Most smart phones have the same internals as tablets, are easier to carry, and are actually designed to be used as a phone.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[TNT@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:58:26 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The notion that a tablet can replace a desk phone]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[is based on the assumption that everyone you need to talk to is within your company and using similar technology.  It falls apart when you have to talk to that vendor or customer who isn't on your network; or to that factory floor or warehouse employee who uses a phone mounted on the wall.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:28:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[paperless]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When people bring that up to me, I tell them that a paperless office is an impossibility and that the goal should be for less paper not paperless.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[GSG]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:41:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Big deal]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The vast majority of companies don't have to abide by these regulations.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Pete6677]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:35:27 -0700</pubDate>
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