Comments on: Can Nokia take on Blackberry in the Enterprise? http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/2008/09/16/can-nokia-take-on-blackberry-in-the-enterprise/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:53:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rahul Gaitonde http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/2008/09/16/can-nokia-take-on-blackberry-in-the-enterprise/comment-page-1/#comment-10228 Rahul Gaitonde Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:56:04 +0000 http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/?p=617#comment-10228 Zain,<br><br>I don't loathe the E66, but I do wish Nokia would roll up its sleeves, commit to the business market the way it did with the entertainment market, and cease passing off tiny, underpowered devices with WiFi as business-ready smartphones! To its credit, the E71 proves it's getting there.<br><br>Your essential point - Blackberry's security - is taken, although the Linux analogy is unfortunate, given that the Blackberry OS is proprietary ;) Zain,

I don't loathe the E66, but I do wish Nokia would roll up its sleeves, commit to the business market the way it did with the entertainment market, and cease passing off tiny, underpowered devices with WiFi as business-ready smartphones! To its credit, the E71 proves it's getting there.

Your essential point – Blackberry's security – is taken, although the Linux analogy is unfortunate, given that the Blackberry OS is proprietary ;)

]]> By: Zain http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/2008/09/16/can-nokia-take-on-blackberry-in-the-enterprise/comment-page-1/#comment-9791 Zain Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:41:01 +0000 http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/?p=617#comment-9791 Great post, Rahul. I was combing the web for some information on the upcoming successors to the E71 and E66 (the phone that you seem to loathe) and happened to stumble upon your blog. Anyhow, there's another point that probably needs to be considered in Blackberry's favor - the sense of an "extra level" of security. It's like the Linux of the mobile world whereas Symbian (S60, especially) and iPhone OS are the Windows systems that are just begging to be hacked. On a similar note, BB's proprietary OS probably has the smallest application base of all mobile platforms (Android included). That's probably another reason why corporate customers prefer BB-branded devices to other platforms that have a BB client - Sony Ericsson & Motorola's UIQ devices, for example.<br><br>P.S.: When it comes to mashing out e-mails to clients on the run, I would prefer the E61's large keypad to a small-ish E71 any day. Great post, Rahul. I was combing the web for some information on the upcoming successors to the E71 and E66 (the phone that you seem to loathe) and happened to stumble upon your blog. Anyhow, there's another point that probably needs to be considered in Blackberry's favor – the sense of an “extra level” of security. It's like the Linux of the mobile world whereas Symbian (S60, especially) and iPhone OS are the Windows systems that are just begging to be hacked. On a similar note, BB's proprietary OS probably has the smallest application base of all mobile platforms (Android included). That's probably another reason why corporate customers prefer BB-branded devices to other platforms that have a BB client – Sony Ericsson & Motorola's UIQ devices, for example.

P.S.: When it comes to mashing out e-mails to clients on the run, I would prefer the E61's large keypad to a small-ish E71 any day.

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