Does mobility = mobile phone?

[gfesta]

I recently asked a number of friends, family, and colleagues to tell me what comes to mind when they hear the word mobility. More often than not, people responded with mobile phones. Not surprising given the proliferation of mobile phones and the instant popularity of the iPhone. Upon hearing these responses I probed people a bit further and asked them to think about places they had gone throughout the day and the different ways the communicated with others in each of those places.  It quickly dawned on them that mobility is a lot more than just mobile phones. At Cisco, we use the term mobile workspace, which is a combination of applications, devices, operating systems, and networks used to conduct business at any given time, to get people to think more broadly about mobility.

How do you define mobility?

Gerard

Unified Communications Solutions Marketing

[gmcgill]

I find myself including 'portable' in my definition of 'mobile'.

I can't help it but I do feel differently about hauling a bag of equipment around versus fishing a single device from my pocket. It's all about the time it takes going from off-line to on-line. My mobile office may take from 5 to 15 minutes to setup in a hotel room, including the time taken to locate electrical outlets and boot the laptop, complete virus scanning, download patches, reboot after CSA locks it up... You get the picture.

So, in my mind, mobility implies pocket portability.