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| Author: Andy GreeniPhone Gets its MBA

In case you weren’t at Apple’s press conference for the iPhone 2.0 announcement, engadget was there to blog the major points. iPhone 2.0 is really a software upgrade, but an important one. Third-party developers now get a shot at creating software with the same SDK used internally by Apple. Oh, and one more thing – there are enterprise applications.

While the Spore demo was impressive, it’s iPhone’s new ability to synchronize with Microsoft Exchange that has captured the attention of the enterprise community. Emails, calendar appointments, and contacts are pushed out in real-time. For the contact center world, the new push capability is incredibly handy if you’re a field technician trying to coordinate a trouble ticket with an agent.

The iPhone already supports PBX functionality. With the 2.0 upgrade, this “consumer” device is not so quietly morphing into a business-class tool that competes head-to-head with the likes of Blackberry, Treo and Windows Mobile.

So, are you getting ready to toss out your BlackBerry? I’d be interested in learning whether iPhone 2.0 is changing your mobile device plans. Drop me a line and let me know.

Posted by Andy Green at 13:30 on Mar 28, 2008
iluviphone said...
Posted at 20:18 on Apr 21, 2008

I am gonna wait till it gets its PHd and that should be soon with the next release not too far away. If rumors are correct (and Apple rumors tend to be correct) the next ver will have 3G, GPS, better camera, and will be thinner...

I think the next version will lead to a much bigger adoption in the corporate world. Watch out blackberry!

Andy Green said...
Posted at 12:13 on Apr 24, 2008

Depending on who you talk to (see Walt Mossberg), a higher-speed version of the iPhone with 3G chips could happen over the summer. Corporate power users will definitely need more than ~80kbps that the current iphone delivers. It remains to be seen whether ATT can deliver on 3G in the US--Europe is another story. Absolutely, a true 3g iphone may end the reign of the blackberry.


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