Microsoft Teams' Walkie Talkie feature becomes widely available

Jan 16, 2022

New Delhi, Jan 16 (ANI): Microsoft is making its Walkie Talkie feature available to all users of its Microsoft Teams. According to The Verge, Walkie Talkie lets Microsoft Teams users turn smartphones or tablets into a walkie-talkie that works over cellular data or Wi-Fi. It was originally announced two years ago and has been available mostly in preview ever since. The feature launched widely on Android in September of 2020, but now Microsoft says it's available for Zebra mobile devices as well as iPhones and iPads. Microsoft has primarily pitched this at frontline workers, employees who are customer-facing and run day-to-day operations inside companies. The software maker's collaboration with Zebra Technologies makes it work with a dedicated push-to-talk button for quick and secure communications. Walkie-talkie features are still rare in communications apps. WhatsApp lets you record snippets of audio than can be sent and received, and Slack launched its Discord-like Huddles feature last year to let people drop in and out of calls easily.