“The 3G iPhone has been selling more than expected to SMEs (Small and medium enterprises), according to O2 [United Kingdom]… Ben Dowd, head of business sales at O2, told silicon.com: ‘We have seen tremendous success across our channels in terms of the iPhone 3G model. Very, very strong in SME and also creating a lot of interest in corporate – although with corporate it always takes longer for it to translate into bigger deals purely because of the sales cycle,'” Natasha Lomas reports.
“He claimed SME sales cycles are typically three to four weeks, compared to six months for corporate businesses, adding: ‘Within SMEs in particular [the 3G iPhone has] exceeded my expectations in terms of the numbers that are getting delivered,'” Lomas reports.
“Dowd said he remains confident the iPhone can do well in the corporate sphere, given enough time – adding ‘a number of corporate customers’ are trialling it, though he refused to identify the companies involved,” Lomas reports. “Interest in the iPhone has come from corporate customers across all sectors.”
Full article here.
There are a few quirks with MS exchange support as far as calendaring.
Get docs and excels writable….. Game over for corp. iPhone will rule all.
Ohh, and copy and paste too
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Be nice to b eable to search email.
To mwmwmw:
Agreed. 100%
@mwmwmwmw
Agree with you 100%
My company finally evaluated the iPhone 3G to replace our army of Blackberry phones…
Final Result: It does TOO much, and the battery doesn’t last nearly enough. Our company will NOT be going to iPhone any time soon.
I was shocked. It does too much? What? And battery life is great, you just use the dang phone a lot more than your used to. Just charge the sucker every night, and you’re pretty close to good.
I’m glad I told them to keep their blackberry, and got an iPhone the day they came out, and an iPhone 3G shortly after it came out too.
yeah..who wants a device that does TOO much? That would suck </sarc>
Well I guess your IT department uses Windows.
So they’re used to buying second best.
No wonder businesses are going bust at a rate…
PS Hasn’t some bright person with an IQ of thousands figured out yet that the global collapse can be blamed entirely on Bill gates, Microsoft and Windows????
The whole Windows-based system is determined to follow Detroit into the dusty glass displays of a Business Museum…
Does TOO MUCH! I love that comment. A few, ok more than a few years ago, I worked for Sprint and the guy in charge of the IT department said that he did think anybody would ever need a laptop faster than 166mhz…..I wonder what park bench he sleeps on now.
Has MDN considered adding a set of darts to the picture of Steve Balmer blowing bubbles (MacDailyNews Poll) and selling it at the App Store?
>Get docs and excels writable…..
>Game over for corp. iPhone will rule all.
>Ohh, and copy and paste too
>Be nice to b eable to search email.
I’ll second all of those – and add a request for a search function for the calendar, too – just like the one on iCal on my desktop.
I need to be able to finds things on the calendar – like when I was last in a city… or my last meeting with someone.
alansky,
That’s a light bulb in Ballmer’s mouth.
Google “Uncle Fester.”
MDN MW: “image.” Now, that really is magic!
@YEAH
“it does too much”
It’s primarily a pocket OS X driven computer with a custom interface so it can pretty much do anything a Mac can if you program it to do so! Within reason of course.
What can be seen as negative from that?
You need to have one (I’ve had both the original and I now use the 3G) to appreciate how fantastic it is.
Blackberries are a joke compared.
It needs support for Open Source Exchange alternatives for cheap push email, calendars, contacts etc. And the few things mentioned above but that’s it… Closest thing to the perfect phone that there is available today.
Two words about why iPhone is a great business tool:
Air Sharing, Bitch.
Er, three words.