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TeleSym delivers its SymPhone System for wireless voice calls on PDAs

Turns a Pocket PC PDA into a mobile phone for the wireless workplace, free trial offered

TeleSym announced immediate availability of its SymPhone System, which enables clear, cost-effective voice communications on wireless mobile devices like Pocket PC PDAs (personal digital assistants, like the iPAQ). The SymPhone delivers high-quality voice calling on wireless LANS - 802.11b networks - and across the Internet. All components of the SymPhone System are now available for trial and purchase.

“Enterprises using the SymPhone System can deliver high quality voice calling to their mobile workforce in a very cost effective way,” explains Raju Gulabani, TeleSym chief executive officer. “At the same time, the mobility can yield increased productivity. Our beta program generated tremendous enthusiasm for adding voice communications to PDAs. This will be a home run for our partners, resellers and customers deploying the next generation of telephone systems.”

Enterprise Observations

“The voice quality is extremely good,” says Zackary O’Donnell, a wireless development analyst at the University of California at Davis. “We think that mobile computing over wireless devices will be the computing method of choice for students in the future. With SymPhone, students could call each other on campus, and faculty could use it to call their office, or call for audiovisual support in a classroom.”

SymPhone System Components

SymPhone Client software transforms mobile PDAs into phones for PDA-to-PDA or PDA-to-phone calls over wireless 802.11 LANs. SymPhone looks familiar to users, with a dial pad, contact list and intercom features. SymPhone Client runs on Pocket PC devices such as the Compaq iPAQ and industrial devices such as the Intermec 710…

Full Story @ wirelesssoftware.info

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