Monday, April 30, 2007

Can You Hear Me Now?

Today, I feel like a little kid at Christmas. I walked into our work to discover our newsroom got equipped with new high tech phones. It’s actually quite scary what these gizmos can do.

The old phones were, well…old. And for some reason, my phone receiver had some sort of weird rattle in it. My desk is now graced with this black phone that seemingly glistens under the fluorescent light of the newsroom sky.

I have set up my voicemail, set the contrast and brightness functions to optimize the display for my eyes and even picked a special ring tone.

I did have to laugh when we discovered a slight fluke in the system. It appears that if you are on the phone talking with someone, our station’s holding music may randomly start playing over your conversation. Thankfully, the fine telephone folks are here and have worked out the bug in the system.

On a serious note, the phone system allows us to more efficiently and effectively handle each call to our newsroom, resulting in easier routing of calls to the appropriate newsroom staff. 

I must say, it amazes me how far technology has come. I can’t even begin to imagine what a telephone will look like in 25 years. Will there even be a need for desktop phones? Home phones? Or will people simply rely on their Bluetooth connected cell phones as the primary means of being reached?

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-Jason
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