Technology & IT | Sunday 18 January, 2015 11:21 am |

- Feature packed eSpace 8950 marks the ICT vendor’s growing line of enterprise unified communication & video tools

Aimed at boosting office and employee productivity across organizations in the Middle East, Huawei—a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider—has recently unveiled its latest next-generation full-HD video phone, the eSpace 8950 with plans to offer the flagship device for Middle East enterprises.

According to Huawei, full-touch screen technology is captivating businesses across the world as growing popularity of intelligent office video phones have fostered user habits in using new communication methods.

The eSpace 8950 delivers an optimal experience, making enterprise communication more pleasant and efficient with full touch operations. The video phone provides a consistent user experience across computers, smart phones and tablets with its context awareness technology ensuring that users can use Bluetooth to switch between desktop phone terminal and mobile device without dropping off the call. Its Full-touch video conferences deliver an optimal video experience and simplified conference control.

“Today marks the arrival of Huawei’s most innovative and technologically advanced video phone yet, it is a symbol of our commitment to pushing the boundaries of unified communication and collaborative solutions for enterprises in the Middle East”, said: Kamran Shaukat, Regional UCC Solutions Manager, Huawei, Enterprise, Middle East. “With a stylish new design, full-touch display and interactive user interface, we are providing enterprises with greater convenience and an improved quality of video experience that requires very low bandwidth to operate.”

The use of technologies such as Unified Communications and Machine-to-Machine solutions were expected to gain prominence in the regional IT industry according to latest forecasts from market intelligence firm IDC, which highlighted that ICT spending in the Middle East IT is expected to exceed $32 billion in the coming year .

The pioneering eSpace 8950 phone has a 6mm ultra-thin body while the multi-touch design subverts the traditional push-button design. The base is angle-adjustable to focus sight naturally; the high-quality aluminum alloy showcases superb material quality. A highly sensitive, In-Plane Switching (IPS) touchscreen offers a super-wide viewing angle to capture more image details. The video phone also provides a consistent user experience across computers, mobile phones, and tablets. The flattened UI enables users to perform frequent operations within three steps. Full-touch video conferences deliver an optimal video experience and simplified conference control.

With the hands-free function, and while using Bluetooth, the voice is automatically switched to the user's mobile phone is the user wishes to leave the office zone. The user can also continue voice communication using the Bluetooth headset without switching to the headset of the mobile phone.

The eSpace 8950 ensures that enterprises can manage and control sensitive and essential information to ensure high security.

Full HD: high voice and video quality
eSpace 8950 is designed with two high-fidelity audio speakers that accurately reproduce sound. The video phone is equipped with a full-HD 1080p camera for a truly immersive experience.
As a high-end video phone, eSpace 8950 also provides a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) to project the content from the video phone to a large screen, quickly changing an office to a small video conference room.

Powerful enterprise communication tool
Smartphones provide primarily consumer services, while eSpace 8950 works with Unified Communications (UC) systems to provide a wide assortment of enterprise communication services, including corporate directory, voice mailbox, and extension mobility. The rich functionality effectively enhances enterprise communication efficiency.

Flexible management
The eSpace 8950 provides a variety of management modes for IT maintenance personnel and end users to easily and flexibly configure, manage, and maintain phones. In addition to the Android-based management User Interface, eSpace 8950 provides a web-based management page that can be accessed by users through a computer. Users can also manage video phones in batches through Huawei's enterprise network management system eSight. The visualized and web-based management UIs remarkably simplify phone management.