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Originally Posted by crkishore
(Post 950966)
Jaggu, the reasons being citied for not being really enterprise ready : a) email server has to be outside fire-wall. so access via vpn would require to punch in the keys everytime ? b) VPN drops frequently. c) email is not pushed real time. email is synchronised only when you run the email app. d) email can be feteched at pre-set frequency, say every min, 10 mins, etc. It seems this drains the battery faster e) Calendar, tasks and Notes are either screwed up or not present. f) No copy/paste ! g) cannot sort emails other than by time ! h) cannot search emails i) cannot mark emails as high importance or mark them for follow up. j) folders cannot be collapsed and are always shown expanded. though the screen is quite big, doesnt suit everyone. h) finally, the keyboard isnt as fast as the other smart-phones. my company makes atleast one component of the iphone and we usually buy products which carry our chips. iphone is surely a nice phone, and we had internally participated in the beta program :). but at the end, it was not ready for usage in enterprise situations. Blackberry still rules. |
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Originally Posted by crkishore
(Post 950966)
Jaggu, the reasons being citied for not being really enterprise ready : a) email server has to be outside fire-wall. so access via vpn would require to punch in the keys everytime ? You dont need VPN access for Microsoft Exchange support. No corporate email server will be OUTSIDE a firewall - whats the point in having the firewall, then? My exchange server is behind a few firewalls, but still works flawlessly. b) VPN drops frequently. Why would you want VPN for Exchange? Or do you have some other web-based application you will access using the VPN? c) email is not pushed real time. email is synchronised only when you run the email app. It is pushed pretty much real time - you need to set up the duration under Settings > Fetch New Data > Push. Just turn that 'Push' on. d) email can be feteched at pre-set frequency, say every min, 10 mins, etc. It seems this drains the battery faster This is very unusual - why would sporadic data sessions drain the battery faster than a continuous, non-stop session? e) Calendar, tasks and Notes are either screwed up or not present. Calendar is a bit screwed up - you need to set your time-zone not just for the device, but also under the Calendar settings (Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars and scroll all the way down till you see Time Zone settings - else all your Calendar events will be set to Cupertino, CA time. Why it does something so stupid, I dont know.) Tasks - I've just wasted $6 buying an application that promised to Sync tasks for me, but it didnt. The iPhone does not sync anything other than contacts, calendar and mail. No, it does not know Tasks. f) No copy/paste ! Haha. Haha again. And yet again. Welcome to the world of Apple and forget everything else you knew. g) cannot sort emails other than by time ! Be thankful you can actually sort by time. h) cannot search emails Wait for Google to release a phone. Do you have that many mails on your handheld device that you actually need to search? In any case it can only take upto 200 mails (which is far less than my daily quota) i) cannot mark emails as high importance or mark them for follow up. Get mail, read, reply. For anything more, buy a Microsoft or Symbian mobile device. j) folders cannot be collapsed and are always shown expanded. though the screen is quite big, doesnt suit everyone. h) finally, the keyboard isnt as fast as the other smart-phones. What keyboard? my company makes atleast one component of the iphone and we usually buy products which carry our chips. But you had to wait in queue for your iPhone just like everyone else? |
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Originally Posted by crkishore
(Post 951002)
Steeroid, these were "reasons being cited" for the company for not deploying the phones. I do not have any personal experience of the above claims. Looks like some of the findings have changed/fixed since the pre-launch in the US [not India]. |
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Originally Posted by crkishore
(Post 951002)
h) so what happens after the 200 mails quota ? FIFO ? |
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Originally Posted by srijit
(Post 951354)
So let me get this straight... They didnt insist that you had to take a new plan with the new iPhone. You could use the old plan that you already had? That's interesting. Why unlock at all if Airtel doesnt tie you down to a special plan. |
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Originally Posted by rahuldeodhar
(Post 951671)
Engadget is running a story about iPhone price discounts by Vodafone India. Couldn't confirm this. Anyone know about this? |
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Originally Posted by tsk1979
(Post 951831)
I read somewhere that iPhone is not cheap because its not subsidized here(unlike USofA). So are they selling iPhone unlocked, or you are still locked to the operator even after paying full price? |
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Originally Posted by diabloo
(Post 952701)
After all the holla created by Vodafone & Airtel about iPhone, someone told me that they could sell only 40 nos on the opening day -is it true? |
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