Motorola turns up the heat on RIM

[poofyhairguy]

. "Motorola and really all the Android players are putting pressure on RIM. But the Photon 4G in particular has a lot of great enterprise security features like remote wipe and VPN support that business customers will really like."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20070430-266/motorola-turns-up-the-heat-on-rim/#ixzz1OrJs8DMl

 

[dlock13]

Immediately, me mind said... "eh, still locked bootloader." Then I remembered, most business users won't tinker with their phone. So this is could be a huge win for Android in the sense that Apple and RIM have essentially started to dominate the corporate world, and Android might start gaining a lot of ground now.

 

[randomlinh]

i thought remote wipe was an android feature? or is this somehow different? More exchange tie in?

 

[alent1234]

compared to the iphone exchange server connectivity on android sucks. how fuk1in hard is it to enable push email on all your folders and not just the inbox?

once the iphone 5 comes out apple will reveal more features and that's the end of the road for android in the enterprise. the BBM killer is just the start. there was also a recent IRS ruling that may cause people to start paying taxes on company phones they use for personal use. some companies will just pay people money every month for a cell phone

 

[dlock13]

compared to the iphone exchange server connectivity on android sucks. how fuk1in hard is it to enable push email on all your folders and not just the inbox?

once the iphone 5 comes out apple will reveal more features and that's the end of the road for android in the enterprise. the BBM killer is just the start. there was also a recent IRS ruling that may cause people to start paying taxes on company phones they use for personal use. some companies will just pay people money every month for a cell phone

That's how my brother is. They allot him a certain amount of money, and he uses that to pay for his plan.

Also, I agree about Android's push. They have the BARE minimum of push. It's awful. I don't understand why Google hasn't implemented a better push system or used their giant servers to house their push system. It's kind of nuts that push is such a large part of iOS, and yet when it comes to Android, we have polling every so many hours and people wonder why battery life is terrible on some Android phones.

My knowledge about push/polling is correct, right? Polling uses your phone's connection (Which in turn uses your battery) to grab info from a set location. Push is... well, self explanatory in my eyes. Instead of your phone grabbing it, the notification, let's say it's a game or Facebook message is handled by Apple's or whomever's servers and shoots it to your device the instant it sees it which causes near to no drain.

So then why doesn't Google utilize Push in Android... if what I said is the case...?

 

[alent1234]

they have push in android with gmail and exchange. google is an activesync licensee just like apple. it's just that google's software is always in perpetual beta because their geniuses are always working on something else or they code something new and cool up to version .9 and then go off on the next cool thing and forget it. Google Reader cough. google voice, etc.

apple will work on a few features that work well and then release other features later. but the entire apple presentation is usually better since their background is selling computers at insane prices to people with a lot of money who expect more than bare paper specs. and apple has a world recognized designer working for them

and apple's customers are end users. google's customers are the cell carriers and phone OEM's