I’m calling you from my iPad at 30,000 feet. This could be how you start your next phone call.
Apple’s iPad doesn’t technically offer the ability to make phone calls, but SimpleSignal has figured out a way to make the iPad talk using our virtual PBX technology. And now that Wi-Fi is being offered by most of the major airlines for longer flights you can do VoIP over Wi-Fi just about anywhere, on the ground or in the air.
SimpleSignal is constantly looking for ways to increase its ability to offer our customers the opportunity to work and communicate anywhere, any time. Now mobile workers can manage work calls through the “cloud” so they can make and receive phone calls from anywhere in the world from the coolest mobile device to hit the market…Apple’s iPad. As a matter of fact, you can use any Internet-connected device, including cell phones and computers, as if the call were going through your office line. You can also start a phone call on one device and seamlessly transfer it to another device mid-call. How does this work? Let’s say you are on a conference call at your desk. But it’s 6 PM and you have to go pick up the kids at soccer. Just press *11 on your SimpleSignal office phone system and you can transfer that call to your cell or iPad and you are off and running. Seamlessly the call is transferred from the office LAN onto the cellular network. That’s voice engineering magic!
The iPad has an excellent speaker microphone making the iPad perfect for conference calls. People can remotely dial into a meeting even if the room it is in doesn’t have a conference calling system. The app is still in its early stages, but once iPads have the ability to perform multiple tasks at once, as Apple just started allowing on the iPhone, it could become an ideal device for looking at slides, or manipulating shared documents while simultaneously taking a call.
It’s all part of our effort to make our voice technology work for business. We say that we’ve developed a phone system that works for you. It “gets” you. It knows how you want to work. It knows who you want to let through to you and who you’d rather push to your voicemail and deal with later. It knows when you are available or when that call can go to your assistant or co-worker.
By enabling the iPad for voice, Simplesignal gives its clients yet another option for fielding their phone calls. Besides, it has a very high “cool factor”. Amaze (or annoy) your friends on your next flight!
