Mobile phones & tablets thread

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Originally Posted by Andrewmcm

Why are they tops for business? That's a genuine question by the way - I've never used a Blackberry and have no idea what their key features are.

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They were the first mainstream device to make it an absolute doddle to use your email on the move, which we now take for granted on all but the dumbest of phones. Where RIM differ though is messaging is handled by their own servers, so you don't incur roaming charges when abroad. (That massive strength is also their Achilles heel: if their server fails we now know what happens.)


Then teenagers discovered that BBM is like a mobile version of MSN or similar, and the demand on the services ramped up massively but with RIM apparently failing to scale their business accordingly.

Businesses are unlikely to dump their BBs over a (hopefully!) one-off outage, but younger consumers are more fickle and may well migrate come upgrade time or when Santa brings them a new pay-as-you-go handset.

iOS 5 update causes massive internet traffic spike - to users' frustration | Technology | guardian.co.uk - Crikey!

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Originally Posted by Andrewmcm

Why are they tops for business? That's a genuine question by the way - I've never used a Blackberry and have no idea what their key features are.

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3DES Encryption on email traffic, and the ability to completely lock down the handset with centralised control from the Enterprise Server. Then there is MVS, which again, can be locked down to only allow VOIP calls on WiFi connections.

So Nokia has brought out their first windows phone. The Lumia.

However instead of them coming in with a proper iPhone killer with a massively technically sophisticated phone they've done the usual Nokia trick of making it just that but under specced compared to the competition.

It seems they still haven't learned.

I've not used a Nokia for years. The last one I had was a 3510i which was blue and orange. What are they like these days?

Just the same...

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

3DES Encryption on email traffic, and the ability to completely lock down the handset with centralised control from the Enterprise Server. Then there is MVS, which again, can be locked down to only allow VOIP calls on WiFi connections.

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About a month ago, Lowe's (the U.S. home improvement chain) selected the iPhone for its sales associates (42,000 phones). And from what I've read, they have the ability to control the phones to their satisfaction - even to the point that if the phones are taken out of the store, they can be locked and will no longer work.

I'm not a technical enough person that I know how these various technologies really work. But it does seem that an increasing number of businesses are no longer just looking at RIM for secure mobile devices. Others are eating away at their enterprise market share, in addition to their slumping consumer market share. RIM allowed itself to become a one trick pony, and now other ponies are learning how to do what RIM has been doing (quite well), in addition to things that RIM is not very good at... like basic execution on new innovations (the Playbook still can't use the BBM system?).

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Originally Posted by Mark

So Nokia has brought out their first windows phone. The Lumia.

However instead of them coming in with a proper iPhone killer with a massively technically sophisticated phone they've done the usual Nokia trick of making it just that but under specced compared to the competition.

It seems they still haven't learned.

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They've learned one thing - make it look and feel fantastic. I think they've nailed that this time.

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Originally Posted by intheway

They've learned one thing - make it look and feel fantastic. I think they've nailed that this time.

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;) :up:

** Adobe giving up on mobile Flash **

interesting to say the least. . . . . .

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Adobe says it now believes the alternative HTML 5 technology offers the "best solution" because it is "universally supported".

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BBC News - Adobe abandons work on Flash plug-in for mobile devices