[Tornado99]

When will I be able to get up from my office desk, pick up my BlackBerry from a wireless dock/charging station, walk into my company meeting rooms, place the phone down on a touchdown station, sit at keyboard/mouse station and drive a meeting presentation, including voice comms, on a large flat panel or projected screen?

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[imz]

After Apple and Samsung, and maybe even Windows.

[thurask]

A Verizon Z30, a BT keyboard/mouse, (e)BBM Video and a Miracast/HDMI-equipped display?

[BadGoliath42]

Is that much of a pain to plug USB and HDMI at the moment? Because if it isn't, you can do all of that already.

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[BadGoliath42]

A Verizon Z30, a BT keyboard/mouse, (e)BBM Video and a Miracast/HDMI-equipped display?

True, just connecting via Miracast doesn't have the 'instantaneousness' of HDMI out. Same if he uses USB OTG instead of bluetooth for keyboard/mouse. Just a matter of minutes I guess.

But it can already be done.

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[Tornado99]

But nobody offers an integrated, enterprise ready setup. My company has huge license costs for all the pc's and MS office installs across global sites. Having the phone as a complete pc replacement, fully portable between different rooms, would be huge.


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[BadGoliath42]

Making a presentation with a BlackBerry for your central computing, with a projector for your display (local or remote) and keyboard/mouse for your input is a thing. Replacing a whole PC with Office on it is a bit far away. PC are still the dominating platform for office work because of software that has been developed during the last decades, and is still a full-size multitasking solution way better than any smartphone OS.

I use specialised softwares on Windows at work, and it is highly improbable that they will be ported to a smartphone OS during the next decade. Having a major desktop OS has this advantage, and having four different OS on smartphones doesn't help.

So I guess we'll all have to stick to DocsToGo-like software with USB/HDMI/Bluetooth/Miracast connectivity for now.

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[Troy Tiscareno]

The Galaxy Note 2 and Note 3 already can do this quite well (the Note 3 amazingly well, and honestly FAR ahead of a Z30). Still, this is something almost no one does, because most people would rather have a full-powered PC, plus the like to have their phone available to take calls/texts instead of having it tied up for their presentation or as their PC.

Nothing is preventing you from using your phone this way if you want (it can be done with the right hardware), but IMO we're still a few years away from having the horsepower of a desktop on our phones, to the point where a decent minority of people would be genuinely interested in using their phone as their PC.

[byex]

The Galaxy Note 2 and Note 3 already can do this quite well (the Note 3 amazingly well, and honestly FAR ahead of a Z30). Still, this is something almost no one does, because most people would rather have a full-powered PC, plus the like to have their phone available to take calls/texts instead of having it tied up for their presentation or as their PC.

Nothing is preventing you from using your phone this way if you want (it can be done with the right hardware), but IMO we're still a few years away from having the horsepower of a desktop on our phones, to the point where a decent minority of people would be genuinely interested in using their phone as their PC.

How does the note 3 do this much better than the z30? Just curious as I set up my z30 for the first time in office and used it as I would my pc. I was literally blown away how easy it was. So in what way would the note 3 excel at this. Keep in mind in more of a professional/business user. Not heavy on photos or videos or any of that media editing. Just some PowerPoint presentations.

4 hours of use and my only complaint was not being able to edit/create adobe docs and the awkwardness of single monitor. I actually use three on my workstation. There were some minor complaints but it took some getting used to.

I had the z30 hooked to my Dell monitor which has a usb hub, hooked my Dell mouse and keyboard in plus a thumb drive. Monitor hooked up to hdmi connector. Monitor speakers hooked into the headphone jack. I was able to receive all my scanned docs, faxes to phone through the remote file access. Able to access all network resources through remote file access. Mapped network drives were added to BlackBerry Link remote access. If I really wanted to work off my windows workstation I just used the remote desktop app and logged in. I was able to print from the z30 on to 3 different office printers. Printed a bunch of email attachments and faxes through the share option to print hand. Our business software is cloud based so easily accessed through browser with secure login. One software we use would only give me mobile option, which was useless. Was able to create company documents on letterhead through docs to go. Did some excel editing to.
Since this was a makeshift last minute experiment, I'm sure could be much more clean with some wireless peripherals.
Just for kicks, I connected my BT Jabra unit as a speakerphone. Then tried BT earpiece. Taking calls was seamless as notification came up on monitor.

It really isn't that far off the whole mobile computing experience.

Oh and the otg cable I have supports charging of the z30 while connected. No loss of battery life.



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[ray689]

How does the note 3 do this much better than the z30? Just curious as I set up my z30 for the first time in office and used it as I would my pc.


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It doesn't do it "much better". Remember who you are responding to in here.

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[Tornado99]

A typical experience now is we create the presentation, meeting docs. Invites etc on an office pc, Ms Office suite, Outlook Exchange. Presentation and other files stored to network shares. Then at meeting room, either use the in room pc or lug our laptops. For the former, we then log in, assuming pc is already booted, hope it's not been recently Re imaged by it group, requiring much more time to create a new user profile. Then we launch outlook, wait another 5 min while it downloads your inbox messages from the server, then open your meeting details with the ms Lync hyperlinks to start your online meeting.. Then use explorer to locate your presentation files off a Network file share.
Bringing your laptop only helps with some of the above...still need to get all the cables in place etc. You may be doing all this several times per day in different rooms.

We're actively exploring cloud based apps for our main office systems. Seems a bit like back to the future, as I recall the dumb terminals days of the '70's and early 80's.
Surely a smartphone can hook in to an app server, using the horsepower there to do the heavy lifting, leaving the phone to output display audio and handle the comms.

We need a complete enterprise solution to make this seamless and easy...not a hillbilly hack job point solution.


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[byex]

We're actively exploring cloud based apps for our main office systems. Seems a bit like back to the future, as I recall the dumb terminals days of the '70's and early 80's.
Surely a smartphone can hook in to an app server, using the horsepower there to do the heavy lifting, leaving the phone to output display audio and handle the comms.

We need a complete enterprise solution to make this seamless and easy...not a hillbilly hack job point solution.


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Until that enterprise solution comes along; all we have are hack jobs.

But that solution is very near. It's encouraging to see Chen focusing more on the enterprise side more with recent moves with the people brought on board.

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