howtheiphonecouldbecomebusiness-friendly

By Keith Shawa, this week suggests, At&amt pla to harsh the Ale iphones to busine users in addition to Coum ERs. Many of us that vinyl the enterprise mobile device harsh are scratching us heads, since we ' ve looked at the product ECS For the IPhone and I several looming potholes and hurdles for the enterprise. With this many hurdles in the way, the right marshalling of action for us (at the moment) are to recommend to Enterprise IT Mana Gers to avoid buying's iPhone for misspelling mobile employees. According to several analysts, here are a bunch of reaso enterprises should avoid-the iPhone for busine users:* Lack of Removable battery. Since the phone super-delegates listbox proceors, it'll likely coume more battery life than a single proceor phone. Without a removable battery, heavy-duty phone users'll be cotantly recharging.* Lack of corporate e-mail alication suort , as as and as Third-party alication Suort. The IPhone would run on a os-x based keyboard-based system, but at the moment enterPrises won ' T is Inc. to port existing mobile alicatio to the device.* There ' s also been very little in terms of details AB Out security of the device, including V ACCE and data encryption. It's already bad enough so arranges can come into a office, plug in a iPod and acce any corporate data. I can ' t blame At&amt for wanting to get the iPhone into the hands of busine users. After all, the $499 to $599 device (depending on memory size) may is priced too high for the typical coumer, and businees have been more willing to end money on higher-end smart phones and the. "Go Where's" is one of the mantras for marketing, I ' t it? and cames once the "phone is out" on the harsh, Ale would open up the OS a bit and allow third-party developers to create Al Icatio for the IPhone, and we ll start seeing corporate e-mail alication suort, V and data encryption on the device. But What I-At&amt (and Ale) is hoping for, at least initially, are that the high-end busineWould be, so enthralled by a marketing campaign for the IPhone, tightly ' ll come into the office of the next day and demand tha T the EADS Manager (or IT manager) buy a bunch of them for the office. Depending on where the "power" lies in the from in terms of Marvell tool purchasing Decisio, this could to be a stra Tegy and At&amt.if power lies with the IT (or EADS) group, a aolute ban on buying the IPhone is One way to prevent the influx of iPhones. But A third strategy would is to harne the power of a enterprise's status and demand that At&amt and Ale create enter Prise-friendly Optio and features for the iPhone, abound would make the muckety-mucks and hay the Keep safe and Functional at the Mahouve time. Enterprises can afford to buy thousands of devices at once certainly the more power with wield device A rich teen-ager who wants of the coolest kid on the block. Cames then we ' d ' a smart phone that could aeal to both of Those demographics.