The Evolution of VoIP Desk Phones

If you ask the average person to name the biggest advance in phone technology over the past decade, they’ll likely tell you all about the increasingly ubiquitous “smart phone.” And when it comes to personal phone technology, we have to agree: Smartphones are more impressive than anything else to hit the consumer market in a long, long time. No other field of devices has transformed the way people use phone technology more than the iPhone, and we’d bet no consumer-oriented phone invention will match the inventiveness of the iPhone anytime soon.

That said, the smartphone isn’t the only powerful, widely adopted, and revolutionary telephony evolution to come along in recent years; it is simply the most visible device to infiltrate our daily personal lives. Believe it or not, there have been many exciting developments in the world of business telephony.

In fact, right now, SIP-based VoIP desk phones look just as radical as the new wave of touchscreen pocket-sized wonders.

Where desk phones and smartphones converge

Smartphones and modern desk phones look and behave very similarly these days:

-Both smartphones and modern desk phones are minicomputers in disguise. Instead of using traditional landlines, modern desk phones use Internet connections to make your calls and have the same impressive processing power as today’s portable phones.

-Modern desk phones come standard with full-color touch screens built into their chassis for added functionality. These touchscreens enable everything from native apps to crystal-clear video conferencing (made possible by high-quality integrated video cameras).

-The introduction of apps and a development environment on smartphones has completely revolutionized the way we think about our personal phones, and a business-oriented app environment built into modern desk phones will create a similar user experience. of radical.

With the ongoing debate about whether or not personal smartphones are appropriate for professional use, we believe there is an even more radical notion to consider: modern desk phones offer everything modern smartphones give us and more, which makes them the obvious choice for businesses looking to take advantage of cutting-edge technology while avoiding the many problems inherent in modern smartphones.

For example, these notable issues include:

-Modern desk phones never have to worry about battery life limitations, even from today’s most powerful smartphones. Smartphones are notorious for draining battery life and the current move towards 4G LTE exacerbates this problem. While previous generations of smartphones were impressive if they gave their users a full day of use without dying, the latest 4G LTE smartphones require multiple daily charges just for occasional use. Desk phones, plugged straight in as is, will never have to worry about power issues.

-Desk phones can take full advantage of high-end touchscreen technology because they don’t have to meet the same size and portability demands of smartphones. Desk phones will continue to offer brighter, clearer, and larger touchscreens than the iPhone and its competition, leading to improved development environments and superior video conferencing capabilities, further enhanced by larger internal video cameras. and of higher quality than those offered by modern smartphones. .

-Desk phone manufacturers have already designed and released phones with development environments that match modern smartphones. Current generation desk phones (such as the Grandstream GXV 3175) offer multi-language support, a full web browser, weather reports, a stock ticker, a currency calculator, a world clock, a calendar and virtual BLF keys, while others (such as the Panasonic KX-UT670) can tap into the Android app ecosystem for instant access to thousands of powerful, highly functional, business-oriented apps.

Modern desk phones offer all the functionality of modern smartphones without the many drawbacks inherent in smartphones. It seems that the debate about the value of smartphones in the workplace has already been answered.