Comments on: iPhone at Work, the Business Case – Wait-a-Thon

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By: Increasing Sperm

Increasing Sperm — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:36:36 +0000

Guess she should have been more respectful of the court system. Lohan has just received a good dose of reality, that she may be a star but she is not above the law. She may also want to conduct herself better instead of telling cursing and swearing at a judge in a courtroom.

By: Bob Shapiro

Bob Shapiro — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:57:16 +0000

I’ve made the move from a windows mobile device to the iphone. I agree completely with your analysis. There are modifications to make, but I would not go back.

By: Cypy

Cypy — Sun, 11 May 2008 21:46:15 +0000

I’m on the waiting list.

By: topolina

topolina — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:16:22 +0000

Oh man… you make me want one!! Soon… soon…

By: tschertz01

tschertz01 — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:38:34 +0000

The iPhone is almost there but still has a way to go. Fortunately with the pending 2.0 update I fully expect all of these minor issues to be resolved.

By: Bri Guy

Bri Guy — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:25:37 +0000

As I mentioned in the article, the iPhone is an adequate business phone. If you are a power user who regularly creates countless documents and spreadsheets on your phone, well… the iPhone isn’t for you. In fact, the phone you are using probably isn’t for you either — try a palm-top device

I’m merely pointing out that the iPhone, in it’s current incarnation, can still be used in a business world for contacts, tasks, and scheduling. I’ve used the browser countless times as well and, quite frankly, it is far and away the leader over the other craptastic browsers on other devices. In the end, this isn’t a “the iPhone is a better business phone than anything else out there” article, it’s instead a “the iPhone can be used in the business world in it’s current no-Exchange-no-SDK status and it’s interface is light years ahead of the competition” article. There simply is no perfect phone for everyone.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:09:33 +0000

The looks of surprise are for the design and the interface. Given that RIM, MS, and Palm couldn’t deliver a modern OS with a 5-10 year head start, fainting at the sight of one wouldn’t have been out of the question either…

By: Theta

Theta — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:08:14 +0000

I think the slack-jawed/surprised expressions from people is more likely related to the fact you have a phone that doesn't have any built in Office (iWork) productivity software.

Imagine a co-worker whipping out a 10 year old Nokia with a cool-color faceplate. Same response, for the same reasons.

By: wb3

wb3 — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:53:48 +0000

I use mine at work too. The one thing that drives me to distraction is that there’s no Outlook-style “New Contact from Same Company” function. So anytime I meet somebody new at an existing customer I must retype everything. For that matter I use a Mac at home and as best I can tell, same prob exists in both Entourage and Address Book. Am I missing something?

By: dstrauss

dstrauss — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:38:48 +0000

On your .mac email work-around, what happens when you reply to one of these forwarded emails? Will the recipient’s reply back to you go through your office exchange account, or because it came from .mac it only goes back to the .mac address?

By: burnsaa

burnsaa — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:34:07 +0000

I’m slightly bummed that I quit my office job and won’t get to test out my iPhone in the Corp. world. But really not that much seeing as how working outside is alot more fun. In the words of Peter Gibons from Office Space ” F@&$ing eh”

By: sparhawk

sparhawk — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:05:13 +0000

When you whip out that iPhone, do the slack-jawed suits bother to look up from their ubiquitous Blackberries?

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:34:59 +0000

I likewise use Exchange IMAP for business mail to my iPhone and it works a treat. When I create Tasks in Apple Mail, the folder also syncs via IMAP to my iPhone, so I have at least some record of stuff (and it looks like 2.0 will improve that and add meeting requests via a very nifty GUI).

By: WatersWest

WatersWest — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:27:22 +0000

Having to sync Outlook info via iTunes is a big pain in the you-know-what! As a business tool, the addition of Exchange ActiveSync is going to take the device a long ways towards acceptance in the corporate world. However, it will probably never dominate the enterprise world the way BlackBerry currently does, especially if the organization (as opposed to the individual user) is purchasing the device.

By: Bad Ash

Bad Ash — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:22:09 +0000

Wait-a-thon….

By: Dyvim

Dyvim — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:35:43 +0000

Exhange IMAP is perfect for my work email. My company doesn't have the necessary server-side stuff to do push email even to one of the WM 5/6 devices that support it and we have no BBs. So in my case, I'm not missing out on anything.

The one big shortfall is the inability to accept Meeting requests. While I understand why they left this out, I wish the iPhone would show these messages (even if it can't accept them), so that I would know I need to visit my desktop to accept. Otherwise, I remain in blissful ignorance thinking that my Inbox is empty, when in fact it may be filling up with meeting requests.

There are also some hiccups with Outlook Contacts sync via iTunes. After making a change on the iPhone, photos dissapear from the preview of the Outlook contact even though the photo is still associated with that contact. Opening the contact and selecting the same or different photo doesn't help - somehow iTunes has permanently damaged that Contact item (no doubt screwed up its MAPI tags somehow). The only recourse is to duplicate the Outlook contact and delete the original. The duplicate shows the original photo just fine. Also, iPhone can't Google Map contact addresses where the country is "United States of America". It only likes "United States". You'd think Apple (or Google) could fix that. Major bummer having to change the country on all my Outlook contacts.

By: gadgetluva

gadgetluva — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:26:27 +0000

Although I like the iPhone, there are still too many compromises that will hopefully be solved by the new iPhone due this summer. My biggest complaints – no native tasks and no easy way to call a contact, particularly when I only have one hand free, like pulling my suitcase through an airport (I press three letters on my blackjack and have the list narrowed down to just a handful, press 4 and I’m likely staring at the contact I want to call). Yea, there are workarounds, but it seems like iPhone users are the best at making excuses rather than admitting that something is a major shortfall. No flamewar intended – I’ll probably pick up an iPhone 2 when it comes out to sit beside my 3 WM6 devices, my BB Curve, and various other cell phones I’ve gotten over the years.