Your own Trekkie Communicator

[Helevitia]

Story: http://www.forbes.com/technology/200...ahoo&referrer=

[Greebe]

I can see many applications where this would be a GODsend. Lets just hope it works well enough, doesn't cost an arm & a leg and is purchased for the correct reasons (not cutting staffing hours as mentioned, but in improved customer service/ patron care).

[VJ]

Very cool!

I do believe some cell phones also offer this functionality: Nokia has presented a push-to-talk GSM (and it also uses voip for this feature).


Jörg

[TrueJaco]

I like this device. I have always wondered why the technology for paging wasn't used a bit more efficiently, because in essence it's a good system, which doesn't use up bandwidth space so aggressively like mobile phones do. This aggressiveness is the reason people can't use mobile phones in hospitals, because the transmission jams medical instruments.
For relatively small networks op people, like companies or hospitals, this is a cheap and good solution for all sorts of problems. My only objection: why have they made the device so ugly? Why not look a bit more to the Star Trek Communicators and come up with something with a metallic-like surface instead of ugly shining black 80's plastic? A simple visit to a mobile store would have given them enough inspiration.