Avaya Flare Experience Tablet PC Takes on Cisco Cius

“There is a fairly significant difference in battery life between the two. The Cius claims eight hours. The Flare claims three hours. But frankly, the Flare is not the sort of device that somebody's going to want to take with them on the road and try to get hours and hours and hours of usage out of it,” King said. “It's really meant to be used on the desktop as a way to initiate and participate in conference calls, VoIP calling, web-based video conferences; and if you need to unplug it and take it into a presentation, you can do that.”

Business setting

“In a business setting, this kind of device is one that's going to be turned on and turned off as necessary,” King said. That's a big contrast compared to the iPad's design intent, which expects people to use it for hours on end. He explained that business tablets aren't meant to be used in that way. Instead, a business tablet is meant to complement a desktop or laptop computer.