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Darius Wey
09-10-2006, 01:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.tabletmedia.com/italkie.html' target='_blank'>http://www.tabletmedia.com/italkie.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"iTalkie™ is a groundbreaking solution to painlessly add the efficiency of voice communications into your business workflow. Replace your walkie-talkie with your mobile device and add new functionality. Just install the application on your PDA and you are ready to page. It's that easy! This P2P walkie-talkie with presence and direct calling solution requires zero setup and configuration and is completely serverless. After 3 years in the making and real field trials, iTalkie™ was specifically designed based on feedback from vertical market customers (retail, warehoue, healthcare, government, etc.) that require an inexpensive, easily deployable and maintainable solution. This product is ideal for multi-site organizations with for low-number of terminal per site."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wey-20060910-italkie.gif" /><br /><br />Over the past few years, I've seen a number of you express interest in an application such as this. Go ahead and download the trial version from our <a href="http://www.handango.com/brainstore/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=311&platformId=2&productType=2&productId=195336">affiliate software store</a>, and see if it's right for you. It supports Pocket PCs running Windows Mobile 2003/2003SE and Windows Mobile 5.0.

palur
09-10-2006, 01:40 PM
This is very interesting. Is this very different from Skype? I know in skype mobile, we do not have video conferencing abilities yet.
I need some clarifications:
1) if this is downloaded, will this be always ON? meaning like a cell phone.

2) what is the battery drain rate if this is always on?

3) if there is no way it can be on always, it is probably least useful to page somebody.
thanks.

Menneisyys
09-10-2006, 02:41 PM
It's very similar to 4Talk (please see this (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=50474) for more info).

I'll test and compare it to 4Talk as soon as I may leave from home (I'm ill - haven't gone to sauna after the swimming sessions in the last 3 days and got the cold consequently).

palur
09-10-2006, 03:00 PM
Sorry to hear that. you should get well soon for all our sake.
Could you tell me if this app can keep your pda on always so that it can be used effectively for paging purposes.
I am wondering if 4talk or this app can be used in a hospital environment for paging purposes and full duplex communications, where cell phone signal may not be available all the time but wi-fi could be available as in our institution.
Thanks.

gatalec
09-11-2006, 04:12 AM
Yes, this product was intended for environments with WiFi, where there is no requirements for a connection to the phone system but it is desirable a) not to have to be contacntly connected to the public internet (like Skype), b) to have no setup and servers involved (easy deployment and maintenance) and c) all what is required is one-to-many paging and one-to-one full duplex direct calling.

Other products only supports many to many full or half duplex voice, which we have found not to meet the needs to most businesses. iTalkie also adds critical usability, device integration, power and network management capabilitiers. You can set it to to autostart and it will be always resident in the background until you are called or need to call/page someone.


Sorry to hear that. you should get well soon for all our sake.
Could you tell me if this app can keep your pda on always so that it can be used effectively for paging purposes.
I am wondering if 4talk or this app can be used in a hospital environment for paging purposes and full duplex communications, where cell phone signal may not be available all the time but wi-fi could be available as in our institution.
Thanks.