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gerbick	2010-02-07 , 06:05
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Originally Posted by CrashandDie

The N900 doesn't provide any encryption features as do the E-Series or most Blackberries. Also, I doubt that any serious company would allow a worker to use a personal phone on the corporate network, and corporate email.

Gotta disagree here. Linux is as bulletproof as it gets. A phone based on it, they'd kill for a phone that was that capable and should be able to fit into an organization as well as the N900 possibly could and not have to customize their MS Exchange settings.

Simply put, as an MS Exchange admin, but stuck with MS Exchange 2003 and not 2007, the initial release of the N900 was a disappointment. Viewing Guber99's troubles with PR1.1 has deepened those worries for me.

You'd think that a N-class item, Maemo based or not would slot itself into the same position that Blackberry, WinMo and even the Apple iPhone (which we now support too at a few sites) would be just fine in that kind of company. It's close... but not quite yet there.

But as far as serious companies go; they sort that out, I'd push for it to be in the hands of the more savvy users in a second. Less to worry about, if it were done right.

Either way, you shouldn't be using your N900 for work.

Then use it for what? I'm genuinely curious here.

It was never advertised as a corporate-capable phone, and neither should you have assumed it. MfE works fine from what I can tell.

This makes me curious too. What do you think the N900 should be billed as? A full Linux distro, a full-blown browser, a "portable computer"... that sounds more corporate that most other phones imho. But I'm just curious what you think.

Thanks in advance.

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