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Thread ID: 125669 2012-07-11 22:12:00 Police to get smartphones Iantech (16386) PC World Chat
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1287883 2012-07-12 22:12:00 When they have a new toy, they will be busy playing with it, less time to catch crims. :D bk T (215)
1287884 2012-07-12 22:52:00 When they have a new toy, they will be busy playing with it, less time to catch crims. :D
I guess that's why they'll use Blackberries, so that no one plays on them. Be bad if the officers got caught watching...stuff ;)...on their Galaxy's :p
Nick G (16709)
1287885 2012-07-15 01:08:00 As long as they don't abuse their 3G data usage and send the bill to the taxpayers... Renmoo (66)
1287886 2012-07-15 04:54:00 As long as they don't abuse their 3G data usage and send the bill to the taxpayers...
Yet another reason for BlackBerries, they will never want to use them to access the internet.
Nick G (16709)
1287887 2012-07-15 06:51:00 Looking at the photo of the policewoman using what I would call a laptop I would say that they would be best kept in a car so that they have a direct link to a central computer. Does the police officer on the beat have a smaller more portable version? Being able to send reports directly to base from the job would save man hours.

Communication for police has improved since the old days when to contact base they had use a landline or the police whistle to alert other officers in the area that they needed help.
Bobh (5192)
1287888 2012-07-15 09:52:00 Blackberry is too outdated whilst iPhone is probably too walled with respect to implementing custom solutions. I don't have enough experience with WP to judge if it's similar to the iPhone re customisation to suit their needs.

So really android based would be cheaper, more customisable to the job I reckon


HP Elitebookm, fair enough... iPad? What's that for?
The Error Guy (14052)
1287889 2012-07-15 23:33:00 I have been involved in discussions about which smart phone solution to use in a large company.

the company has about %60 of managers on blackberry (selected about 4 year ago).
they have a BES server, and like the MDM (mobile device management) that comes with blackberry.

now they are looking at what to get to refresh the older blackberry's with.

blackberry is a dead company, but they have the BES server (MDM).
iphone has a good MDM solution, but will mean investing in a second MDM.
android is best by the users, but has very little MDM support.

from a security stand point, we want to setup the MDM to require the latest OS version.
that's quite hard with android, as it is different on each brand/model

often management of the device, remote wipe, encrypted file system and such are more important than what is seen as hip and cool.


iphone hits all the security and MDM points.

it looks like they will have a mix of iphone and blackberry as they phase out the old and bring in the new.
android wont get a look in until they have better enterprise functions.
robsonde (120)
1287890 2012-07-16 00:15:00 android is best by the users, but has very little MDM support.

There are a couple of phenomenally-effective MDM solutions for Android devices out there ;)
inphinity (7274)
1287891 2012-07-17 05:36:00 Blackberry is too outdated whilst iPhone is probably too walled with respect to implementing custom solutions. I don't have enough experience with WP to judge if it's similar to the iPhone re customisation to suit their needs.

So really android based would be cheaper, more customisable to the job I reckon


HP Elitebookm, fair enough... iPad? What's that for?Here (www.techvibes.com)is a reason why their wont choose android.
plod (107)
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