Apple gets iPhone 3G right for business
With mature and well-established QWERTY devices from HTC, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, and Research in Motion known to be capable of handling the needs of serious users, the iPhone 3G needs to be weighed against alternatives using existing professional and enterprise-targeted handsets to set the bar. As you may recall, I judged the original 2007 iPhone to fall far short of professional standards. The iPhone was too expensive to be missing so much. This time around, there are two new products under discussion. One is the iPhone 3G, the other is the iPhone 2.0 software.
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What is your opinion of
What is your opinion of non-replaceable battery? I think this is scandalous as well as the lack of cut and paste. Fortunately other touch screen phones (HTC, Samsung F480) appearing on the world market now will give Apple run for their money.Yeah the battery would be
Yeah the battery would be nice, even if it meant a longer life battery. Not so much concerned about copy and paste, that could pose a potential security risk.what if another app copied and pasted a bank account number, and transferred it unknowingly to an upstream to their server...
People are only concerned with what they want, not the impact it can have LONG TERM.
It may sound like a farce, but Apple is primary goal is to make this device as hack proof as possible and keep it from becoming yet another "smart phone" type device.