ShoreTel Mobility 8 delivers mobile video collaboration

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	ShoreTel Mobility 8 delivers mobile video collaboration ShoreTel has launched a major update to ShoreTel Mobility with version 8, offering mobile-enabled video conferencing. ShoreTel Mobility 8 is integrated with the ShoreTel Communicator desktop call-control suite, and the new software enhancements have added a virtualized ShoreTel Mobility Router.ShoreTel Mobility 8 provides video communications via iOS and Android smartphones and tablets with single touch video calling from the keypad. Users can also participate in multi-party video sessions between mobile devices and room-based video communication systems. ShoreTel supports room systems using industry standards H.264/AVC, including Lifesize and Polycom. Video calls are supported over local or remote Wi-Fi and cellular data networks. Another new feature to the Mobility client is that the “join” button, delivering a one-touch audio bridge login that works with third-party Web collaboration tools. 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At the same time, I want a phone that runs well and is well-supported.Currently, I have neither.So, come October, after Tim Cook introduces the iPhone 6, count me among those who will be queueing up for one. On AT&T. I gave Windows Phone and Verizon a chance and they have failed. It means an Early Termination Fee (ETF) of a few hundred bucks, but maybe I can make that selling the phone on Glyde. Here's why: Verizon's throttling. Usually companies deny it until they get caught, but Verizon has come right out and said it will throttle certain users. Oh sure, they said only unlimited bandwidth users only. They also cooperated with the NSA after umpteen promises of protection our privacy. Quite frankly, I don't trust you. Lousy coverage. This may shock some of you but it is true. In the canyons where I live in Orange County, wireless phone coverage is a challenge. When I was with AT&T, calls were always clear and went through on the first try. Verizon, which always toots its own horn about its coverage, just plain stinks. Calls don't go through, my parents and others complain of not being able to reach me, and calls are constantly dropped. Enough is enough. Cost. My Verizon plan is comparable to my plan with AT&T in terms of usage and data allowance, but costs about $40 to $50 more a month, assuming there are no extra charges. Samsung let me down. I had to go to a Verizon store and ask them to special order the Samsung ATIV SE. That should have been my warning of Samsung's commitment. But I bought the phone and now I'm left hanging. Nokia owners have Windows Phone 8.1 and are already seeing the first update to it. I have no ETA on 8.1 because it's up to Samsung to do the firmware update. Given that I had to ask for the phone, it wasn't on display, and the recent lawsuit between Microsoft and Samsung, I have no confidence their relationship will improve or Samsung will expend any energy on its WP products. 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