{"id":1758,"date":"2011-09-21T08:09:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T08:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2011-09-21T08:09:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T08:09:39","slug":"tablets-as-a-replacement-for-the-deskphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/tablets-as-a-replacement-for-the-deskphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Tablets as a replacement for the deskphone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using a tablet for the last few weeks with the aim of understanding the business usage potential for them.\u00a0 I prefer to travel light, so if this device is going to be useful for me, then it&#8217;s got to replace something.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s good about the device?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Touch screen input is a really natural way to work for &#8216;consuming&#8217; information (web browsing, reading documents etc).<\/li>\n<li>Instant on, rather than waiting for a boot-up to finish is a time saver.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0What&#8217;s not good about the device?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lack of mouse control makes precision work (creating diagrams, process flow charts etc) almost impossible (although tablets with styli are addressing this).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can it replace my laptop?<\/p>\n<p>In certain situations, yes.\u00a0 If I&#8217;m travelling for 1-2 days, and know that I&#8217;ll just need email in that time, then the tablet is a great weight and space saver.\u00a0 Also, travelling in economy on planes and trains, the form factor of a tablet is much easier to work on than a laptop.\u00a0 Overall though, I wouldn&#8217;t give up a laptop completely (as I&#8217;m sure almost everyone wouldn&#8217;t)<\/p>\n<p>Can it replace my mobile?<\/p>\n<p>Very unlikely.\u00a0 If you take a large bag everywhere with you, then it&#8217;s possible, but the pocket size of mobiles makes them more convenient.\u00a0 If you do want to use them as a mobile then you&#8217;ll need a <a title=\"good headset\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plantronics.com\/uk\/product\/savor-m1100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">good headset<\/a> of course.\u00a0 Again, no it won&#8217;t replace my phone completely.<\/p>\n<p>Can it replace my desktop phone?<\/p>\n<p>This is the most interesting question for me, UC is making us think more about the devices we use for communication and collaboration &#8211; so is the tablet ready for full time enterprise use?\u00a0 Not yet, but there is no reason why it shouldn&#8217;t do in the near future.\u00a0 I already use a software program for my calls, and the device I run that program on is connected over a wireless network.\u00a0 It&#8217;s unlikely that consumer focussed devices would fulfil this function, but devices from the traditional or not-so traditional would easily achieve this.\u00a0 Again, you&#8217;d need a <a title=\"good headset\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plantronics.com\/uk\/product\/encorepro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">good headset<\/a> for this to work,\u00a0 but this seems to be the most likely route for tablets to be adopted as replacement devices rather than incremental ones within enterprises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using a tablet for the last few weeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[508],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}