Best smartphone for a business with about 13 employees?

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Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: preslove
Only a moron would even be "interested" in the iPhone for business customers. It's extremely expensive, has no qwerty keyboard, making it almost useless for email. It's a consumer product, nothing more.

I would look into the blackjack. It's cheaper than most smartphones, has a full qwerty keyboard, has windows mobile.

iirc, it'll generate a qwerty keyboard when necessary.

IIRC it will not be the wors possible choice ever for any sort of computer geek

Another thing that will dash expectations is the fact that Apple is not yet opening iPhone to applications created by third-party developers. By contrast, besides letting you surf the Net, chat, do e-mail, listen to music, watch videos and so on, BlackBerries, Treos and Windows Mobile devices have literally thousands of applications developed by third parties. IPhone users will miss out on all of that.

However, the opposite is true: The iPhone, despite its many media-oriented virtues and its sweet design, will do far less than most existing smart phones. The problem Apple now faces because of Jobs' premature detail-oriented announcement is that of dashed expectations. When customers expect more and don't get it, they become dissatisfied.

What doesn't iPhone do? Unlike most smart phones, the iPhone doesn't have voice dialing, voice memos, 3G Internet access, Word or Excel support, one-handed operation or video recording. It can't be used as a laptop modem. The battery can't be replaced. It doesn't support removable storage. The calendar, task list and e-mail won't sync with Microsoft Outlook.

As a media player, the screen is big and the interface is undeniably cool. But storage limitations will seriously annoy people when they actually try to use the thing. Consider this: The operating system by itself will reportedly use about half a gigabyte.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/art...articleId=9008439&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8

It's just anothe product that you would expect to see from apple, easy to use, fun to look at but absolutely worthless if you have need for anything more than just the most basic features.

Any smartphone out there will beat the iphone for anyone that really uses smartphones for anything at all.