Comments on: Halo, you’re my hero!

By: Nokia’s Internal Communications Insight from Nokia Conversations | Inside Nokia Phones

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:29:45 +0000

[...] long distance face-to-face meeting place (via webcam) in the same vein as Nokia’s advanced Halo suites – the purpose being that it further enables employees to communicate better yet travel less, in [...]

By: Ricky Cadden

Ricky Cadden — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:20:24 +0000

BLAST!!

By: charlie

charlie — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:37:24 +0000

Alas, Ricky, it _was_ a video call I made. I wasn’t using any sort of client. It was actually pretty weird. After I typed I typed in the number and made it as a video call, I got some graphical interface to enter a few codes (I forget exactly what, but was related to the conference I was dialing into). Then it showed me the four quadrants – one with Phil at his home, the London guys, and the Espoo guys. One quadrant was empty, presumably for one more call (same was happening in our conference room (though I do not recall where I showed up).

Sorry, close, but no cigar. It was indeed a video call (and, what, the 3rd I’ve ever made).

By: Ricky Cadden

Ricky Cadden — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:10:27 +0000

The most exciting thing that I took out of this is that Charlie was able to dial-in and stream video, presumably without it registering as a ‘video call’ to his provider – just using straight data.

I for one would be SUPER-PUMPED to see a ‘dumbed down’ consumer version of Halo made available for…well…consumers. Video VOIP on S60, with a web client and Tablet client, as well.

Or, Gizmo could just add video to its S60 client.

By: carita

carita — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:20:42 +0000

Seeing faces in good quality gives new dimensions to meeting compared to telco´s. We´re designed to communicate with other in the comprehensive style – both verbally and non-verbally. Eye contact is important!

By: Antony Pranata

Antony Pranata — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:39:45 +0000

It’s also a good thing to reduce our carbon emission.