Comments on: The Have and Have Nots: Windows Mobile vs. iPhone Sites http://www.mobileviews.com/blog/2007/10/23/the-have-and-have-nots-windows-mobile-vs-iphone-sites/ All Things Mobile and Wireless Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:56:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: todd http://www.mobileviews.com/blog/2007/10/23/the-have-and-have-nots-windows-mobile-vs-iphone-sites/#comment-108366 todd Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:43:34 +0000 http://www.mobileviews.com/blog/2007/10/23/the-have-and-have-nots-windows-mobile-vs-iphone-sites/#comment-108366 Randy: To the contrary. While I do not claim to be a "typical" PDA/phone user, I do know a number of non-techie people who depend on having Word documents and Excel spreadsheets available on their Pocket PC Phone Edition or Smartphone (as of WiMo6 in any case). I myself use Excel nearly daily on my Windows Mobile devices and use Word several times a week. Randy: To the contrary. While I do not claim to be a “typical” PDA/phone user, I do know a number of non-techie people who depend on having Word documents and Excel spreadsheets available on their Pocket PC Phone Edition or Smartphone (as of WiMo6 in any case). I myself use Excel nearly daily on my Windows Mobile devices and use Word several times a week.

]]> By: Randy Smith http://www.mobileviews.com/blog/2007/10/23/the-have-and-have-nots-windows-mobile-vs-iphone-sites/#comment-108300 Randy Smith Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:47:46 +0000 http://www.mobileviews.com/blog/2007/10/23/the-have-and-have-nots-windows-mobile-vs-iphone-sites/#comment-108300 Good web design shows on nearly all platforms. Since many sites are already in the process of tweaking their sites for mobile access of all sorts then adding a few bells for the iPhone is pretty easy. While the idea of a enterprise ready mobile device sounds good do you really want to work on desktop type apps on the small screens of mobile devices? While Active Directory, remote access and ACL makes sense for laptops, the usefulness on mobile devices like phones and PDA's is questionable. Perhaps the best use of mobile devices in the enterprise would be messaging. You probably don't need to open documents on your mobile device but attaching them to messages by having access to your desktop files via active directory makes more sense. Good web design shows on nearly all platforms. Since many sites are already in the process of tweaking their sites for mobile access of all sorts then adding a few bells for the iPhone is pretty easy.

While the idea of a enterprise ready mobile device sounds good do you really want to work on desktop type apps on the small screens of mobile devices?

While Active Directory, remote access and ACL makes sense for laptops, the usefulness on mobile devices like phones and PDA’s is questionable. Perhaps the best use of mobile devices in the enterprise would be messaging. You probably don’t need to open documents on your mobile device but attaching them to messages by having access to your desktop files via active directory makes more sense.

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