Mobile Client Comparison Tables

Lync session remains signed in

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Support for push notifications

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Country code populates based on region settings

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Account information for multiple users can be cached on the same device

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Publish and view status

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View status based on calendar free/busy information

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View status notes and Out of Office messages

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Add a custom location

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Add a custom note

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Publish status based on calendar free/busy information

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Set manual presence state (such as Busy, Do Not Disturb, and so on)

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View Contacts list

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View contact groups

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View Frequent Contacts group

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Modify Contacts list

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Tag contacts for status change alerts

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Control privacy relationships

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Search the corporate address book

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Search Contacts list

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Manage contact groups

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Expand distribution groups

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Search for Response Groups

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Display or hide contact photos

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Initiate instant messaging (IM) with a contact

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Participate in multiparty IM

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Invite others from within the conversation window

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Display current conversations

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Navigate among multiple IM conversations

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Automatically log IM conversations in Exchange

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Send an IM conversation as an email message

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Initiate an email to a contact

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View missed IM invitations

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Vibrate with incoming IM

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Send location in an IM

Lync-to-Lync voice

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Lync-to-Lync video

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Click a link in the meeting reminder to join a meeting (public switched telephone network (PSTN))

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Click a link in the meeting reminder to join a video or VoIP meeting

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Participate in multiparty IM

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Use dial-out conferencing (server calls the mobile device)

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Use dial-in audio conferencing

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View meeting video

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View multiparty video (gallery view)

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Wait in meeting lobby

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Use in-meeting presenter controls

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Access detailed meeting roster for audio conferences

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Access detailed meeting roster for IM conferences

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Share desktop or program

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View shared desktop or program

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View shared PowerPoint

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Use meeting tools (present Microsoft PowerPoint files, use whiteboard, conduct polls, share files)

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Navigate a list of your meetings

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In Lync, tap the call icon to call a contact

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Transfer a call

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Manage call forwarding

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Manage team call settings

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Manage delegates

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Initiate a call to a Response Group

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Support emergency services

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Make calls on behalf of another contact (manager/delegate scenario)

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Handle another contact’s calls, if configured as a delegate

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Use Call via Work (Lync Server 2013 places your outgoing calls so that the receiver’s caller ID displays your work number instead of your mobile number)

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Access voice mail

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Use the keypad in Lync

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Initiate IM with a public contact

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Initiate IM with a federated contact

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Conduct two-party calls with external users

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Conduct multiparty calls with external users

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Use Call via Work to reach a federated contact on their mobile phone by calling their published work number1

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Call address book contacts

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Make Lync calls to contacts directly from address book

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Provide client-side archiving

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Provide client-side recording

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