Yes, it can make a phone call, but it also has a big screen, where you can have applications on it that enable you to get work done. “Either they’re only voice devices, in the sense that they’re push-to-talk land mobile radio or walkie-talkies within a store, and then they have to carry a separate scanner and a mobile phone to access applications to complete the sale or research products. “ have been using these single-purpose ,” Briglin said.
MICROSOFT TEAMS PUSH TO TALK PRO
With the XCover Pro, all of these functions can be performed on a single device that costs as much as a mid-tier smartphone-$499.99 when the XCover Pro is scheduled to be commercially available on the Verizon network during the first half of this year. Indeed, the Galaxy XCover Pro is designed to provide enterprises with a cost-effective alternative to land-mobile-radio (LMR) devices for voice communications, scanners for supporting inventory and point-of-sale payment operations, as well as enabling the use of typical smartphone applications, Briglin said. We’ve design the XCover Pro to address those needs.” In fact, only one in four frontline workers carry a corporate-issued mobile device.
“So, we think there is a huge gap in the marketplace. Those really don’t survive the environments where most frontline workers operate. “On the other end of the spectrum, there are consumer devices in rugged cases. “The challenge today is that, on one hand, you have traditional, single-purpose, shared devices that tend to be too thick or too heavy or too expensive-or their screens are too small-and they really aren’t flexible enough, in terms of the productivity experience,” Briglin said during an interview with IWCE’s Urgent Communications. Samsung this week introduced the Galaxy XCover Pro, a rugged smartphone for enterprise “frontline” employees that features programmable buttons that can be used to support push-to-talk (PTT) communication, including integration with the new “Walkie Talkie” capability in Microsoft Teams.Ĭhris Briglin, Samsung Electronics America’s director of enterprise mobile product marketing, said Samsung hopes the XCover Pro’s flexible capabilities can change the device landscape for many enterprises that traditionally have relied on single-purpose devices-often shared between multiple users-to execute key operations.
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