CIO Jury: iPhone has no place in business

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This is seriously amusing: I love how all the anti-iPhone crowd has to jump on every iPhone article to troll around and pontificate about how iPhone users are clueless morons who are sucked into the hype... You gys on occasion bring up some good points but most of the time you are "...full of sound and fury signifying nothing."

Resolution and screen size issue I'll give you on the TouchHD... but not too many other WM phones have a screen as large as the iPhone or as good resolution... and as far as the BBs are concerned there is only 1 that is close and that is the BB storm... even then the screen is smaller - at 3.25" as opposed to the 3.5" iPhone screen.

Browsers... and I'm going by default browsers here that were installed with the OS... Safari on the iPhone is far superior to anything WM or blackberry has. IE for WM is in the dark ages of IE 6 (as is WM based on windows ME or 98...), the BB browser is decent for a few things but for a true to desktop browsing experience Safari on iPhone comes closest. And I'm saying this as a current iPhone owner, current BB owner, and former WM owner so I have personal first hand experience with all 3 platforms.

For e-reading, music, and movies on the BB and WM platforms one is limited to how many SD cards one has and the size of those SD cards - as well as internal space of course. I have yet to hear of ANY WM or BB device with over 2GB of on board storage - and most movies run about that. What is on YOUR device right now?
Mine? I have 1138 photos, 5 full length movies (Batman Begins, Dark Knight, Iron Man, Taken, and Wanted in case you are interested), 4 video podcasts (all of The Soup), and 1,214 songs and between the Stanza App and the Kindle App I have about 35 ebooks. And I still have alomst 2GB left. That is not including all the other apps I have on my iPhone - which includes a turn by turn GPS app. Can a WM phone do that? Ummm not without a few SD cards - unless it can use a 16Gb card which very few can... same thing with a BB and the Storm might be the only one that can use a 16GB card. But guess what? I don't have to keep swapping out cards... it's all right there. And that isn't even getting into the 32GB storage the new iPhone 3GS has...

Anyhow back to the original topic here - I have to admit for my line of work the iPhone - or ANY touchscreen device - does not work well. For someone who is in an office or cubicle the majority of the day I can see it. The iPhone OS is becomming more and more enterprise friendly - and much more secure, it is a lot easier to use than the Storm... and more responsive, and yeah it is a fun device. There are some cons - and the large amount of storage space plays a role in it... How many corporate iPhone owners would be inclined to close the door to their office and watch a movie? I have to admit I've been tempted a few times and I've had the tunes rockin out while I'm working - which in some restricitive corporate enviornments is a no-no.; Posted by: athynz Posted on: 06/19/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use