[topherpaquette]

I too have taken the plunge from my BlackBerry 8330 to go to a iPhone 3GS when work started paying for it. I didn't even get outside of my 14 day trial with the iPhone when I returned it for a BlackBerry 9700.

For work and the BES applications, the BlackBerry just does it better. Plus I'm a sucker for a physical keyboard.

 

[topherpaquette]

I think that is going to be the biggest problem right there. With multiple OS's and multiple handsets available, IT departments are just going to get slammed when something happens. I know from fellow employees who are not on BlackBerry that there only means of accessing their corporate email is through a web-portal when using a mobile device. Security isn't an issue at our business (or at least managers don't seem to think so) but if I had to login to a web portal all the time to check my email it would drive me nuts.

I'm not a gamer, don't browse the web, listen to music, watch video, etc much on my phone. So when it comes to email (pushed), texting, calling, and BBM I think BlackBerry meets my needs just fine.

 

[topherpaquette]

I know carrier support for handsets is 100% better then it was 5 years ago, but the reason I bring up IT becoming overloaded is because as an employee, even though I know who are carrier is... I can't just bring my phone to the carrier. I have to hand it over to our IT tech and its up to him from there. If I could walk into my carriers store and have them fix the problems I would. But corporate policy dictates that the only thing any employee can do with a company mobile device, is bring it to the internal IT department only. That is my reason for saying IT departments will get slammed. JMHO.

Compared to...

A company picks one OS platform to go with, and that IT tech.. knowing the one platform, can more often then not fix the issue himself... not by going to carriers because the have to support the products they sell.

Maybe its just me, and maybe I'm old school but...

"If it ain't broke... Don't fix it"