Using Smartphone as Walkie Talkie
It is quite easy to use your smartphone as a Walkie Talkie with this program!
You can still buy regular Walkie Talkies. You can do that in a toy store, but also something more professional Walkie Talkies in, for example, a camping store. Quite a few people used to have such a device. It was easy to communicate with each other, if you weren’t too far away from each other. So at a campsite. Now there is an application that you can also use as a Walkie Talkie.
Smartphone as Walkie Talkie
Today, almost all of us have a smartphone. We can’t beat it. We have also increasingly used Microsoft Teams over the past two years. This is of course due to the many working from home and then Teams is ideal for video meetings. The program now comes with a new feature.
Within Android, the function was already available before. From now on it can also be used with iOS and Zebras. You may not know the latter, but they are widely used in logistics. So you can use the new feature from now on. You must have downloaded the latest update. It took Microsoft a good two years to develop the feature, so it must be good.
Usage
The Walkie Talkies of the past did not need a communication network, that was so handy. That is not the case at Microsoft. A mobile network is still necessary. The advantage is that you don’t have to record. Microsoft says that the feature is made for, for example, employees who go to customers on location and therefore do not have to have the phone call open all the time. Or think of rescuers looking for someone. So you can just start talking and someone else can hear you right away. Without taking the call.
Microsoft writes alongside: “As the frontline continues to be constrained by labor shortages and supply chain disruptions, it wants technology that saves time, helps communicate seamlessly and maximizes efficiency when performing repetitive tasks. Together with Zebra, we are bringing Teams Walkie Talkie functionality with a dedicated push-to-talk (PTT) button to Zebra devices, so frontline workers can enjoy clear, instant and secure communication at their fingertips.”
