<div dir="ltr">Those are good clear objectives. Let me give you my perspective and experience on trying this with a few dozen people...<div><br></div><div>The cost of hard phones has come down a lot. When I last looked at the softphone route, they were more than double today's cost. Most of our customers deploy the GXP-2130 as their mainstream phone, and it's downright cheap ($70). The cost of a softphone varies, but you're eating a significant portion of that price anyway with some of them.</div><div><br></div><div>Mobility is half-solved with cell phone forwarding. Where it falls short is on things like showing your work CLID when calling out, or simple extension dialing. Presence is actually more complicated in some ways with mobile softphones.</div><div><br></div><div>Battery life is really strained with a softphone running all the time. And we saw wild variations where a phone might die in two hours one time, then last all day another. Randomly, people would report the phone being so hot it shut down.</div><div><br></div><div>When sitting at a desk, the facilities of a physical phone are preferable to nearly everyone over a small phone. Big buttons, a nice handset that cradles better than a cell phone, a wired headset, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Overall most people were happier with the simple integration of a desk phone and cell forwarding. The softphones were abandoned. I'll couch that within the fact that this was a small sample of people in only two companies.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Chris Boyd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cboyd@gizmopartners.com" target="_blank">cboyd@gizmopartners.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
> On Feb 18, 2016, at 1:25 PM, Carlos Alvarez <<a href="mailto:caalvarez@gmail.com">caalvarez@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> What is the purpose of going to iDevice softphones? The mission/goal may be an important part of the answer. What problem are you trying to solve?<br>
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</span>We’re looking to save the cost of the desktop phones, and to offer better mobility for our office worker clients.<br>
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—Chris<br>
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