Is your company any closer to supporting the iPhone with Corporate email?

Sitting in chicago airport waiting for a plane i'm browsing the net (awesome browser), checking my mail, listening to podcasts and browsing the app store etc. Found it really useful and definately made life easier..... you know.... i'm in the middle of nowhere and ive just finished my meeting... now wheres the nearest starbucks click click done. Winna! You just cant communicate that in a requirements document lol.
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Yeah, because most of that functionality has nothing to do with the performance of your company and all about you playing with a kids toy.
 
yashiro said:
Yeah, because most of that functionality has nothing to do with the performance of your company and all about you playing with a kids toy.
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Well if any other kids toys make my life easier, or increase my productivity i'll take those too ;). That phone does everything my "business phone" does and more, and it doesnt cost anymore to run or purchase than our existing handsets. I call it a no brainer.
 
mikeh501 said:
That phone does everything my "business phone" does and more, and it doesnt cost anymore to run or purchase than our existing handsets. I call it a no brainer.
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Can you have centralised management on them, can they be encrypted easily without too much hassle (guessing you have to go third party product)?

If not, then for me it's also a no brainer :)
 
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Ev0 said:
Can you have centralised management on them, can they be encrypted easily without too much hassle (guessing you have to go third party product)?

If not, then for me it's also a no brainer :)
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Like i've said previously, if your short sighted enough to think that something doesn't fit into your IT policies it has no useful purpose in business your very much mistaken. Whether this handset versus another has enough supplemental benefit to the business/user to mean breaking those policies (risk vs reward) can only be determined on a case by case basis and will be different from company to company. You really cant just throw in a cover all "IT policy says no" and thats it; its stupid, and your wrong.
 
mikeh501 said:
Like i've said previously, if your short sighted enough to think that something doesn't fit into your IT policies it has no useful purpose in business your very much mistaken. Whether this handset versus another has enough supplemental benefit to the business/user to mean breaking those policies (risk vs reward) can only be determined on a case by case basis and will be different from company to company. You really cant just throw in a cover all "IT policy says no" and thats it; its stupid, and your wrong.
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Sadly it's not our IT Policy that dictates the encryption, it's good old uk government that mandate down from Whitehall. And then there's the auditors. And then there's BSI with the ISO stuff. Sadly my employer has to conform to policies created externally to us. CESG approval is a must as this is a government ratified standard for the classifications of data we would be dealing with. Short sightedness doesn't even come into it.

I have a nice letter on my desk saying what we have to do and by when :)

I'm not saying it has no useful purpose at all.

You say "it will be different from company to company" then say I am wrong. No I am not, my company cannot have them unless those criteria are met by mandate from Whitehall. Hence it differs from company to company like you say :p I said for me it's a no brainer, not for everyone though. If I had a business that wasn't so restrictive on what we could do I would be looking at them in more detail certainly.

So as much as I would want to have them, I couldn't, nothing to do with our companies policies.

So you are wrong actually :)
 
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According to the Keynote today at the WWDC, the new iPhone (iPhone 3GS) supports hardware encryption, iTunes backup encryption and remote data wipe (I think it had the remote data wipe when tied to exchange anyway.
 
I wonder how/if they're going to tie that into any sort of central management systems?

Or do we need itunes installed and itunes accounts, complete with mobileme accounts to be able to activate the phone and use these features?
 
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According to the Keynote today at the WWDC, the new iPhone (iPhone 3GS) supports hardware encryption, iTunes backup encryption and remote data wipe (I think it had the remote data wipe when tied to exchange anyway.
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Think someone said remote wipe was already there earlier in the thread, hardware encryption would be nice....

Got a large enough sum from a mobile carrier who are paying for whatever we go with so if it's out when we have to decide then it can jump into the tender/eval :) Still require something with some kind or remote management though.

Needs to be quick though...
 
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Thats what i'd be curious to see, if theres anyway of managing a corporate deployment. Cant see big IT departments sitting with itunes, activating a big pile of phones..
 
Yup we are deploying them but only to 40 users, activating with itunes etc is a pain and not exactly corporate...... No way round it either according to O2 :(
 
Ev0 said:
Remote wipe isn't good enough security though sadly.
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Remote wipe is pretty good tho as everything is saved in memory not on a harddrive platter so you cant retrieve anything. But then again as soon as it gets stolen if they whip the SIM Card out your pretty much screwed :(
 
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Remote wipe is pretty good tho as everything is saved in memory not on a harddrive platter so you cant retrieve anything. But then again as soon as it gets stolen if they whip the SIM Card out your pretty much screwed :(
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That's our issue with remote wipe not being good enough, it's the time between the device going awol and the wipe.

If the contents are encrypted it takes the urgency off a bit as the data is protected.
 
We use iPhones at my company and havent really had many problems so far but personally I dont think they are very secure.. I did warn the upper management of this but still they all wanted an iphone, so I get them all one (plus one for myself ofcourse :P ) and set them up. It is very nice the way it works.
 
The IPhone with Exchange activesync chews through battery, if you made many calls not sure you'd last a full day. I don't make (m)any calls so it's ok. With no Activesync the battery was awesome, over a week on standby but with it enabled, a day to 1.5 days max I'd say.

It is a pretty nice phone, prefer my HTC Kaiser due to HSDPA on Vodafone but still.
 
A friend and I were discussing this, and what would happen in a situation that a user illegally downloaded music / film / some form of content, and put this on the iPhone?

I like the iPhone, and have one myself for personal use, but I'd stick with WM or BES for business purposes.

You can put a password on the iPhone, so on unlock - key in your password... exactly the same as the BES pin works.

I think it is trying to become some form of a business utility, but I think ultimately for the moment, there are better alternatives.
 
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A friend and I were discussing this, and what would happen in a situation that a user illegally downloaded music / film / some form of content, and put this on the iPhone?
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Same as it would be for any other device, be it a desktop machine or Laptop. written warning then P45!
 
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