{"id":6646,"date":"2008-03-13T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/snap-internet-communicator.html"},"modified":"2008-03-13T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T17:31:09","slug":"snap-internet-communicator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/snap-internet-communicator.html","title":{"rendered":"Snap Internet Communicator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/snap-device.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>So you think you have seen everything in the communications market?<img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/snap-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> Well you haven&#8217;t as there is yet a new product which kind of fits into a new category and kind of doesn&#8217;t. The product is the Snap Communicator from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toucanglobal.com\/index.htm\">Toucan Global<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Communicator is basically a device which sits on a desk and allows you to use VoIP to communicate with other Snap Communicators. The company is focusing on the simplicity angle as a sales tool. You basically press a button to speak with another Snap user and and press another button have a conference with yet more people.<\/p>\n<p>The gadgets do have presence built in and act pretty much like a unified communications application which merges IM and VoIP calling but without the benefit of IM. <\/p>\n<p>The product also accepts voicemail and e-mails the voicemail as an attachment. In addition, the nifty gadget can conference up to four people. <\/p>\n<p>The devices function a lot like Nextel walkie-talkies but only with no monthly fee and no wireless functionality.<\/p>\n<p>If there is a downside it is that there is a cost to get around enterprise firewalls. Still, if this device helps you in your business, the $25 annual fee which is waived in year one is likely worth it. <\/p>\n<p>Is there a need for such a product? Definitely&#8230; If there is a need for Nextel then there is a need for this device. Just like a walkie-talkie, you press a button on a device and are directly connected to others on the &quot;network.&quot; In addition, there is an ease of use factor that some executives will like and branch office locations will really enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>The units cost $99 retail and resellers are wanted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you think you have seen everything in the communications market? Well you haven&#8217;t as there is yet a new product which kind of fits into a new category and kind of doesn&#8217;t. The product is the Snap Communicator from Toucan Global. The Communicator is basically a device which sits on a desk and allows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646"}],"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=6646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}