Your smartphone as your office phone.   I’m Fred Fishkin with technology BootCamp, a report on gadgets and gear.   Lots of folks are using their mobile phones as their home phones.   Now there’s some pretty cool technology that essentially turns your smartphone into part of an office phone system.  Broadview Networks has launched its OfficeSuite Mobile Softphone apps for iPhone and Android.   Managing Director for Marketing Russ Fordyce…

“We call it a hosted platform.  So all of the servers and all the technology lives in the cloud.  And then you have phones on your premise, in your offices, at home, wherever you need them that communicate with those servers.  And so it gives a company of really any size the flexibility it needs to grow or shrink as it needs to and put phones kind of where they need to.”

Including on a smartphone or even a tablet.   There’s more info at Broadviewnet.com.   You can find us, with archives, interviews and more at BootCamp.com.   I’m Fred Fishkin.