I was asked what I really like about iOS 7, this is what I came up with off the cuff. There’s a lot more I’m really enjoying and I’ll probably talk more about it again soon.

1. Control Center. Apple finally allows you to switch on and off wifi, bluetooth, airplane mode and a few other settings, set the brightness of your screen, play music, activate AirDrop, Airplay and turn a bunch of other commonly used features… including an all new flashlight.

2. AirDrop. One of my favorite additions, you can now transfer files like pictures or contact info wirelessly and over a peer to peer wifi network. No wireless router needed. Yes it’s like Samsung’s SBeam but with no need to touch devices.

3. Folders. Folders aren’t new but now there’s no limit to the number of apps you can keep in a folder, you can have page after page of apps in them. What’s really nice is the ability to finally put Newsstand into a folder.

4. The camera is all new. It includes filters, the ability to shoot square pics and filters like in Instagram. I threw this one in because my wife really likes it.

5. New security. iPhones are stolen daily and once they’re gone they’re just gone. You can use Find iPhone to lock or wipe your phone but that’s about it. If someone formats it they’re able to use it, until now. With iOS 7 once your iPhone is locked or wiped it can’t be used until you put your password in. So it’s useless to a thief in turn hopefully cutting down on iPhone theft.

I’m so sick of looking for a proper word processor for my iPad.  I’ve tried Google Drive, Evernote, Quickoffice Pro, CloudOn, Microsoft Outlook web app and anything else I can get my hands on.  In their defense all these apps are free or were gifted to me.  BUT they’ve all failed me in one form or another and I can’t stand it.  I hate having different apps for different situations.  The most common issues for me are not having some form of internet connection, no spell check and the lack of ability to add hyperlinks.

For starters, connectivity is a huge issue and it shouldn’t be.  I travel a bit, more then some and less then others, working on an airplane has become part of my routine on many flights.  I don’t mind not having internet connectivity, what I can’t stand are apps like Google Drive who’s documents/spreadsheets can’t be edited unless you have connectivity.  I almost exclusively fly American Airlines and many of their planes do not have wifi.  I should be able to survive a few hours or more without being connected so I shouldn’t need wifi to use a word processor.  

Second, I’m admittedly a bad speller.  I need spell check when I write like I need food to survive, it’s a necessity.  Now Quickoffice Pro does have spell check but Google Drive and Evernote do not, at least when using an external bluetooth keyboard which is how I do nearly all of my word processing on the iPad.

Lastly is hyperlinking, it’s part of blogging.  I link back to my blog, the Phone.com blog and to any sites I reference in my writing.  Sadly Quickoffice Pro doesn’t support hyperlinking as far as I’ve been able to tell, neither does Google Drive (funny how it keeps popping up lacking integral features).

I haven’t found what I’m looking for yet, I’m considering buying Polaris and/or Apple’s word processor Pages.  I don’t mind paying for apps but I’ve spent money on apps that I thought had features and come to find out they don’t and I’m out money.  

So what do you use?  What do you suggest? My 3 big needs are that it works without internet access, there’s spell check and I can hyperlink texts.  One other thing I’d like is the ability to save to DropBox if possible, not just Apple’s iCloud (if I were using Pages).  Tell me on Facebook or Twitter.

I asked on the Phone.comFacebook fan page if people carried on luggage or checked it through, that post got a lot of views and some chatter so I’m going to write a blog post about traveling for business.  It’s a popular topic, I know I’m always looking for new tips and tricks… As I’m writing this on a flight home.  

I suspect that our readers have lots of suggestion and I’d love to include some of them in the post.  I’d like anything from put your keys, wallet, cell phone and watch into your carry on when you pass through security so you don’t have to put them in a bin to tricks getting upgraded to a better class of seats or an exit row.  I’ll include some of my own as well.  

Please post them on our Facebook or Twitter pages, alternatively you can email them over Jeb@Phone.com.  I hope to get a fair number of tips and I’ll give credit to everyone unless you ask to be anonymous, I’ll respect your wishes.

Traditional business telephony, a category that now (at least in my book) includes IP-based on-premises phone systems as well as more traditional PBXes, took it on the chin again in the first quarter of this year, according to a recently released report from research house Infonetics Research. In a press release touting their 1Q13 “Enterprise Unified Communications and Voice Equipment” report, Infonetics says that the global enterprise PBX market was down 9% from the last quarter of 2012, and down 10% from a year ago.

The market is still hefty in size, at $1.8 billion for the quarter, but what I’m hearing reminds me of the demise of the once-dominant massive mainframe computers of yore, the dinosaurs of the computer age.

Meanwhile, Infonetics also reports healthy demand, worldwide, for unified communications (UC), with UC revenues up 21% year over year.

So what do we make of this.

The way I read it, it’s telling me that business telephony is moving in two directions. For the small and medium-sized business world, it’s moving into a purely cloud-based solution, with virtual PBXes completely replacing traditional on-premises key systems on the lowest end, and small PBX switches as one moves slightly upscale. And of course that’s exactly where Phone.com is targeted.

The other direction, favored by large corporations, is to host their own networks, on which they combine voice, video and data for their corporate needs – unified communications, if you will. But even here, it’s important to remember that while the largest of corporations may be able to put offices everywhere on the globe, their networks can’t always reach those places. So even the big companies need cloud-based communications carriers, again such as Phone.com, to help tie those outlying offices into their fancy new unified communications schemes.

As I prepare to leave for a short trip to Denver I was thinking, I have more calls this week than usual and I’m really going to miss my desktop IP phone. The convenience of the great speaker phone and clarity with the HD voice is hard to beat. The thing is I have a robust work phone in my pocket and I take with me everywhere I go.

I’m talking about my cell phones. Remember back in the day when cell phone companies advertised that digital calls and networks had great sound quality? I do and they were and still are right. I make calls on both my Android and iPhone all the time utilizing our mobile apps, both over WiFi and 4G and the sound quality is great plus I can make my calls seamlessly. I’ve been known to use hotel wifi but it’s a rare occasion, 4G calls have always been fine and in all honesty 3G calls are usually reasonable if you get a solid signal.

What I’m saying is don’t fret if you have to make or take calls out of reach of your IP phone and office. We’ve got you covered and we’d like to think we do it in style. Check out our Phone.com mobile app offering and tell me (Jeb) how you use Phone.com out of the office on Twitter or Facebook.