Agito's RoamAnyWhere presence is a gift to the thrify subscriber

Context is crucial

Tony Dennis

You can use prepaid SIM card while roaming without losing calls - Truphone may want to look into that

Agito's latest release of RoamAnywhere (3.0) focuses on a new concept: the users' 'presence' based on both their location and 'context'.

By context, Agito will differentiate between different 'context states'. It depends whether you’re stuck in work; on the road; at home; or at the customer’s place.

How on earth do they do that? Tony Dennis explains

Agito's co-founder, Pejman Roshan, told Mobile Software Insight that previous release of RoamAnywhere was almost exclusively voice orientated.
Now the focus is on enterprise-style unified communications - such as Microsoft's OCS (Office Communications Server); Lotus' Sametime and similar products from Cisco and Jabber.
RoamAnywhere can now run on 40 plus handsets – either Nokia's E and N Series handsets or Window Mobile 6.0+ devices.
So, across six different mobile operators in the EU, that means the potential users have the choice of over 70 handsets which attract an operator subsidy.
Add in support for all the major brands of PABX, then RoamAnywhere enables enterprise users to view the same UC information – including IM – on both the desktop and a mobile device.
The most powerful feature of version 3.0, Roshan maintains, is that all the relevant information about presence is condensed down into single icons on the handset.
Not only can the handset's owner gauge from the icon's colour that a colleague is already on a call, for example, but the symbol inside the icon also indicates their 'context state'.
So a user could decide that, if an icon indicates that a colleague is on the road, the most intelligent action would be to send a text message rather than an IM or email.

The other benefit of intelligent presence icons is that they save money. They let you choose the cheapest way to contact a colleague.
Dennis revealed that RoamAnywhere also has an Automatic SIM Swap facility.
This lets you use prepaid SIM cards while roaming, without worrying about lost calls and voicemails - the legacy of handset using a country specific phone number.
“Truphone might want to look into that,” said Tony Dennis.
Meanwhile Agito claims that its existing customers can wait for 3.0. "We have Marquee names champing at the bit for betas," Roshan claimed.
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