Posts by Mat Smith

Analysts slam iPhone security and battery life

@Camera Phones

To add to the chap who posted previously, I can also testify that camera phones are extremely useful in work scenarios. I'm a serious photo-head and I shoot with a full-frame DSLR, but nobody is comparing this to using a cameraphone. A cameraphone is a piece of useful *functional* kit nothing to do with real photography, which alows me to take quick snaps for site surveys, work inspection photos, switch rooms and fuseboards, and even sometimes for personal use and to capture memories. Means I don't have to bring a mini digital camera around wherever I go.

As for the use of the word fanboi, I concur with Rich who recommends castration. A large proportion of the readership of this website is over 20, let alone over 40, people who use or run IT at work, how old are we?!

File system encryption

@Henry Blackman:

"It's [sic] filesystem is completely encrypted, and generally inaccessible to a desktop machine so no worries there"

Generally inaccessible isn't really good enough though is it? How many people who want to steal sensitive data from your company's iPhone are planning on firing up iTunes on their Mac or PC to steal that data?!

Have you ever laid your hands on a device that can extract the unencypted data from an iPhone by iPod dock connection onto removable storage in 5 minutes flat, without even the need to have a laptop or desktop computer present? No? Well - and thanks for the quote here - "Please don't comment if you haven't actually used one (which you clearly haven't)".

That's kind of like saying "I don't need to encrypt the files on my hard drive, because you'd need my password to access them in order to start up Windows!" - dumbarse.

It also amuses me that you suggest the iPhone's pikey PIN lock and lack of browseable filestore (that's a SECURITY feature now is it?) is "just as good" as the enterprise level native encryption support in a Blackberry? Head-in-arse.

As it happens I own an iPhone, and no I can't put it down, and that's probably why the battery doesn't last. My Nokia brick lasts 4 days without being charged. That's because I don't switch it on.

But it's simply not suitable for enterprise environment, period.

Gartner research or not, it's a beautiful toy with some minor flaws for consumers but some major ones when it comes to business.