Nurses, flight attendants and other mobile workers can use a new push-to-talk feature from Microsoft on Samsung's Galaxy XCover Pro to talk with co-workers.
It also cuts down on the number of devices people have to lug around. Williams said that while shopping at a retailer over the holidays, she saw a man carrying a personal phone, a work phone a walkie-talkie and a pager on his belt.
"The product we're shipping extends the range of traditional walkie-talkie communication," Williams said in an interview. "It reduces licensing and provisioning costs, and it's one less device for the employee to carry."a bundle that included Office and other products for what it calls firstline workers in services industries and at task-oriented jobs.
The push-to-talk button on the phone initiates a conversation immediately. If the person on the other end doesn't have the device, there's a soft button within the Teams app that can launch the chat. Samsung designed the physical buttons so they can be customized, meaning they don't have to use it for Teams, Behbehani said.
Long ago, Microsoft had big ambitions in mobile hardware, acquiring Nokia's devices and services business in 2013. The company scaled back, taking
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