<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><blockquote type="cite">I'm not quote running the latest firmware, looks like 9.2.2 just came<br>out recently. I have some smartnet fun to deal with now as these<br>tablets weren't put on our regular contract - so now I can't download<br>the latest firmware for it. Don't get me started on the SNAFU that is<br>contract management. Running 9.2.1SR2-21SEC right now.<br></blockquote><div><br></div>One issue you'll have is that you cannot purchase Smartnet on a Cius. It's warranty or accidental damage protection. IMO the software coverage on your CUCM should get you phone load downloads but I've no idea if that translates to reality in any way.<div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Dec 9, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Ed Leatherman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>Hi Jeff,<br><br>We have a few Cius's (Cius'? Ciusi?) testing out as well. Also a<br>higher ed environment.<br><br>I'm not quote running the latest firmware, looks like 9.2.2 just came<br>out recently. I have some smartnet fun to deal with now as these<br>tablets weren't put on our regular contract - so now I can't download<br>the latest firmware for it. Don't get me started on the SNAFU that is<br>contract management. Running 9.2.1SR2-21SEC right now.<br><br>I'm seeing some of the same experiences you are re:battery life and<br>hope that subsequent firmware improves this.<br><br>I totally understand your thoughts around upper management, grandkids,<br>and fruit ninja. I'm not even going to bother introducing this to<br>those folks yet (luckily we have other options).<br><br>My whole thought process around rolling this out (if there is enough<br>interest in the platform) is to try and manage expectations with what<br>it will do - ie: this is for communications, citrix access, etc, it's<br>not going to be a swiss army knife tablet. I don't see most of our<br>upper level management getting these at least initially... maybe when<br>the 3G/4G models are widely available. We're looking at nurses/health<br>care workers, IT users, and some other types of use cases for them<br>right now.<br><br>The couple business apps that I have been using on it (Evernote, a<br>little bit of Citrix) seem to work OK for me. I like the<br>email/calendar clients well enough.<br><br>Would be neat if on a video call you could flip the video input over<br>to the other camera (to show someone something). If that's possible I<br>haven't figured that out yet.<br><br><br>On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <<a href="mailto:jeff@ocjtech.us">jeff@ocjtech.us</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Chris Ward (chrward) <<a href="mailto:chrward@cisco.com">chrward@cisco.com</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">As a Cisco employee I am obligated to ask, what load of CIUS are you<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">running? :-)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I believe it is 9.2.1.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">1, 2, and possibly 3 on your list could be improved with a new load<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">which you would need to apply from a CUCM. I believe 9.2.2 is out with<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">9.2.3 on the way.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Our CallManagers are too old to support the Cius. Until I can get the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">cluster upgraded (I'm hoping in a few months) is there a way to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">upgrade the Cius?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Part of #2 won't be repaired with a new load and you are right it has to<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">do with Intel vs ARM.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">#4 is a perspective thing. From an Android fanboy perspective (which I<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">am) 2.2 is ancient, although I remember when my Incredible got 2.2 and<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">how excited I was to get the latest/greatest. But from an enterprise<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">feature set mindset 2.2 vs. 2.3 vs. 3.X doesn't matter much. Most of the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">enterprise value of CIUS comes from the development that has been done<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">on top of the platform, not the platform version itself. But point<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">taken.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">In our environment (higher ed) the "enterprisey" aspects will be<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">appreciated but will they be enough? I can just see the reactions<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">when the President finds out that his grandkids can't play Fruit Ninja<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">on his new tablet. I'm really interested to see how it all fits<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">together.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Ok, Cisco obligations are done, continue your discussion... :-)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks for the input.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Jeff Ollie<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">cisco-voip mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip</a><br></blockquote><br><br><br>-- <br>Ed Leatherman<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>cisco-voip mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br>https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip<br><br></div></div><br></div></body></html>