{"id":12485,"date":"2017-01-19T14:59:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T14:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/the_deskphone_market_its_alive_its_alive.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:30:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:30:35","slug":"the-deskphone-market-its-alive-its-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/the-deskphone-market-its-alive-its-alive.html","title":{"rendered":"The Deskphone Market&#8230; it&#8217;s Alive; it&#8217;s Alive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deskphone market has been left for dead by many but there is still room in the space for the device to evolve and become become a more integral part of your UC strategy. The ideas is simple&#8230; What if your deskphone became a colleague of your mobile, allowing you to have the advantages of the deskphone and mobile while leveraging the best of each from the other.<\/p>\n<p>It may sound complicated but in reality, the idea is to allow calls to flow in either direction while allowing you to remote into your deskphone from anywhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/Allworx-Verge-and-Reach-Devices.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2017\/01\/Allworx-Verge-and-Reach-Devices-thumb-500x333-15530.jpg\" alt=\"Allworx-Verge-and-Reach-Devices.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Allworx came by TMC HQ and showed their new phones off to us last week and we remain impressed. My colleague Erik Linask <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techzone360.com\/topics\/techzone\/articles\/2017\/01\/19\/428952-reports-the-death-the-deskphone-premature-allworx-says.htm\">has more.<\/a>&nbsp;Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But, it doesn&rsquo;t come with a typical executive phone price tag.&nbsp; At a modest $369 MSRP for the 9312 and $299 for the 9308 (the key differences being fewer programmable keys and BT capability), the Verge line should fall well within an SMB budget.&nbsp; Some may desire a touchscreen, which these don&rsquo;t offer, but that&rsquo;s such a minor tradeoff for keeping production costs down.&nbsp; The magic is really in the mobility &ndash; and the Reach application on smartphones and tablets effectively turns the interface into a touchscreen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deskphone market has been left for dead by many but there is still room in the space for the device to evolve and become become a more integral part of your UC strategy. The ideas is simple&#8230; What if your deskphone became a colleague of your mobile, allowing you to have the advantages of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,171,179,159,196,183,199,164,209,189,118,177,191,192,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18426,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12485\/revisions\/18426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}