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iPhone in the office

I used to work for an agency that believed that Macs were better at everything.  It would spend a fortune on a Mac and then only use it to do MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the interweb.  It did seem like a waste of money, especially as the company in question wasn’t the best payer out there.

As a result, the company’s boss had an iPhone when they were first released.  He then fumed when, a week later, the devices dropped in price.  But it appears that he’s not the only one.

Tech Target has proclaimed the devices are being adopted by businesses to use as an enterprise smartphone.  Whilst I doubt that all the CIOs are ordering the phones purely because they look good it possibly has something to do with it.  It is, afterall, a consumer device.

The online publication has followed Tessenderlo Kerley’s CIO, Bruce Blitch (there is thankfully an L in the surname).  He and a team of staff (senior of course) have been testing the device and given positive comments.

I’m not that surprised that it’s being adopted.  Having tried both I think I’d still rather have the CrackBerry 8120 especially as it has WiFi on it.  It’s not pretending to be something else.

I have an iPod (two in fact) and so never listen to music on the phone.  I have a camera.  I have a phone.  I don’t really check the web on my phone because it’s rarely that urgent.  So, that leaves me with the need for email and, quite simply, Blackberry is perfect for this.  Especially as it has keys to easily type one.

That said, iAnywhere may make the iPhone that little bit better for email.  It’s a Sybase tool and provides access to MS Exchange and Lotus Domino.

8 COMMENTS

  1. Disclaimer: i don't have an iphone or a crackberry. i prefer my nokia n95.

    first, let me quote the portions of your article i'd like to comment on:

    “I

  2. The newest iPhone firmware (2.0) released at the same time as the 3G model includes native Exchange sync licensed directly from Microsoft, without the need for the crude 3rd party solutions developed for it initially. It works brilliantly and this week it's replaced my E61 for reading e-mail and working on my calendar. Many businesses are choosing the native Exchange solution as it does have the additional management and license costs of the Blackberry Enterprise solution. The keyboard, agreed, is love-it or hate-it.

    The iPhone has WiFi support – always has. It manages the switching form hotspots to mobile network better than any other phone I've used without 3rd party tools.

    Dammit… now I'm going to have to go an put my Steve Jobs costume on….

  3. You don't check the web from your phone! Is that for real?

    Not even to check your own site is up and updated? To check no one has posted offensive comments?

  4. my comment was never posted.

    what – you didn't want to let my long comment point out the err of your arguments? i was moderated out? what gives? clearly you agree with my rebuttal then.

    i was not biased towards the iphone (i'm a nokia guy) nor was i biased against the blackberry (i compared it favorably against my preferred device: nokia n95). but my comment was moderated out. it would have been the first reply to this article.

    in short: the ONLY valid argument made above is that against the keyboard. everything else is fluff and tripe. care to read my full comment that was never posted? ask for it, i have a copy: jared.eldredge[at)gmail(dot]com.

    -bit

  5. my comment was never posted.

    what – you didn't want to let my long comment point out the err of your arguments? i was moderated out? what gives? clearly you agree with my rebuttal then.

    i was not biased towards the iphone (i'm a nokia guy) nor was i biased against the blackberry (i compared it favorably against my preferred device: nokia n95). but my comment was moderated out. it would have been the first reply to this article.

    in short: the ONLY valid argument made above is that against the keyboard. everything else is fluff and tripe. care to read my full comment that was never posted? ask for it, i have a copy: jared.eldredge[at)gmail(dot]com.

    -bit

  6. Sorry, Bit, I missed your comment. Thought I'd approved it. You should
    register an account on disqus so your comments go straight up without
    approval!

  7. Sorry, Bit, I missed your comment. Thought I'd approved it. You should
    register an account on disqus so your comments go straight up without
    approval!

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