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Some interesting surveys into attitudes to mobile devices and working this week have shown that 60% of small businesses have already implemented some form of mobile working while 10% of users would be “devastated” if their BlackBerry was taken away. Meanwhile a further survey shows that the number of workers now considered to be mobile has topped 40%.
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You may not be familiar with the name but HTC produces many of the Microsoft powered devices that are on the market today. They are also one of the most innovative companies when it comes to handset design.
The roadmap for device lanuches for the remainder of the year has been published on a number of websites today and included the following “BlackBerry-like” device:
I have been running BlackBerry Connect on a Nokia E61 for a while now so I thought that now might be an appropriate time to do a comparison between the two.
BlackBerry Connect is the client software that allows you to use the BlackBerry push email service with a device other than a BlackBerry. Currently this is available for a number devices and mobile operating systems including Nokia, Palm and Pocket PC.
BlackBerry Connect allows an enterprise to get the additional features offered by other third party devices and still have the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) manage the push email. Additionally, depending on the version of the software, you are also able to get calendar and contact entries synchronised.
Microsoft’s chief information officer Ron Markezich has given an interesting interview to International Herald Tribune talking about the roll out of corporate mobile devices. It seems that previously Microsoft supported any devices that an individual might want to provide themselves. Now, however, Microsoft will issue the individual with a device when requested. Markezich is, obviously, in a somewhat different position to most CIO’s in that he is only going to be allowing Windows Mobile powered devices onto his network. This reduces the number of choices of devices. Similarly one would expect that it is unlikely that BlackBerry, Good or the others are likely to be providing the push email capabilities.
The other interesting aspect is that Markezich sees Europe and Asia at the forefront of mobile working and doesn’t see that changing for the foreseeable future. In fact he muses that the US may never close the gap.
Read the article in full here.
Neil is CEO of AppSwing and has over 20 years of development and management experience in the IT industry.
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