What People Are Saying About... LifeSize ® Icon ™ Series “The UI of the LifeSize Icon Series is unlike any I’ve seen on a video conferencing system. Its slick, icon-driven design just makes sense for an optimal user experience. I expect that there is tremendous market opportunity for this solution, especially at its attractive price point. For companies that have traditionally rejected video due to its cost and complexity, I would recommend a closer look at the LifeSize Icon Series.” — Robert Arnold, Program Manager for Unified Communications and Collaboration, Frost and Sullivan “LifeSize’s new, easy-to-use, lower-priced Icon video products may expand the video market, while better positioning the company against competition.” — Ken Landoline, Current Analysis LifeSize Icon Series is unmatched in the video conferencing industry, and the press and analysts have certainly taken notice. With its intuitive UI and seamless integration with LifeSize ® UVC Platform ™ applications, LifeSize Icon Series is the ideal video conferencing solution for businesses of all sizes. Here’s what some of the top industry reporters and analysts have to say about this new solution from LifeSize: “The product buzz in the LifeSize ISE booth was around a new endpoint line dubbed the Icon Series. The story is best summed up with a look at the handheld remote that supports an ease-of-use story unlike that of any other room system. Imagine a one-button remote! Icon products are designed to be used with the company’s UVC platform solutions. Icon Summary: super simple and price competitive.” — Wainhouse Research, News & Views on Unified Communications & Collaboration, Volume 14 Issue #04
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What People Are Saying About...LifeSize® Icon™ Series
“The UI of the LifeSize Icon Series is unlike any I’ve seen on a video conferencing system. Its slick, icon-driven design just makes sense for an optimal user experience. I expect that there is tremendous market opportunity for this solution, especially at its attractive price point. For companies that have traditionally rejected video due to its cost and complexity, I would recommend a closer look at the LifeSize Icon Series.”
— Robert Arnold, Program Manager for Unified Communications and Collaboration, Frost and Sullivan
“LifeSize’s new, easy-to-use, lower-priced Icon video products may expand the video market, while better positioning the company against competition.”
— Ken Landoline, Current Analysis
LifeSize Icon Series is unmatched in the video
conferencing industry, and the press and analysts have
certainly taken notice. With its intuitive UI and seamless
integration with LifeSize® UVC Platform™ applications,
LifeSize Icon Series is the ideal video conferencing
solution for businesses of all sizes. Here’s what some
of the top industry reporters and analysts have to say
about this new solution from LifeSize:
“The product buzz in the LifeSize ISE booth was around a new endpoint line dubbed the Icon Series. The story is best summed up with a look at the handheld remote that supports an ease-of-use story unlike that of any other room system. Imagine a one-button remote! Icon products are designed to be used with the company’s UVC platform solutions. Icon Summary: super simple and price competitive.”
“The video conferencing market is entering a transitional phase. As mobile, cloud and virtualization technologies take hold, they’re fundamentally changing how video communication works. Much as the introduction of the smartphone dramatically changed how people engaged with their mobile phones, LifeSize is wanting to do the same with the introduction of what it calls ‘smart video.’”
— Tara Seals, Channel Vision Mag
“The new user interface is a slick, modern design, stripped of all confusing textual setting menus. Users are presented with an intuitive, immediately understandable set of icons to choose. This is clearly how the ‘Icon’ series got its name and obviously the main focus of the product design team. They appear to have met their goal, as a quick demo of the new UI convinced me that even a complete video conferencing novice should be able to pick up the remote and place a call with almost no instruction or help.”
— David Maldow, Telepresence Options
“The system also is tightly integrated with LifeSize’s UVC Platform and its applications. Through this integration, navigating through the directory is easy and fast, and users can quickly see a complete schedule, can click to join meetings and get reminders about meetings. They also can stream and record a meeting by pressing a single button, can bring in multiple parties in a scheduled or ad-hoc fashion, and can easily upgrade the system, including changing the number of screens, type of camera and resolutions. Video can be presented in up to 1080p60. The integration also helps businesses control the costs of video, by enabling them to buy only the applications that are needed, and to add more as demands dictate,’ Helmbrecht said.“
— Jeff Burt, eWeek
“Although it is sold as hardware, the story here is the software. This is best illustrated with the remote, a simple wheel/clicker design optimized to navigate on-screen menus…. Using on-screen prompts and menus allows features to be easily added and modified, and as an added bonus the user keeps their eyes toward the camera.”
