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Watching ShoreTel demonstrate its iPhone/iPad telephone handset dock last week I decided I was witnessing the beginning of the end for the deskphone as we know it.

The latest forecast for the tablet market predicts there will be eleven million users of the devices in Australia by 2016.

Telstra is to offer, in coming months, an LTE version of the Cisco Cius Android based tablet, presently available only with WiFi and bluetooth.

Telstra is offering the Cisco Cius, an Android based tablet with WiFi connectivity device designed for use with Cisco unified communications and videoconferencing systems, but without the 3G connectivity promised when the device was launched in the US last year.

Ovum has cast some doubt on what it calls Cisco's 'Cius-only' focus with the launch of its new app store service, AppHQ , and its potential to 'limit its utility and value'.  Acknowledging, however, that the seven-inch Android-based device, unlike the hugely popular Apple iPad, was designed with the company's existing customer base in mind, Ovum says it is destined to replace the corporate desktop feature phone that Cisco sells today.

Most enterprises won't  follow Suncorp's lead and let staff bring their own iPads and Macbooks to work, according to Cisco's global CTO. Instead, they'll push secure mobile unified communications devices into the hands of employees. (Note: Cisco's CTO did not mention Suncorp specifically and Cisco stresses that it is strongly supportive of the use of iPads in the work place)