iPhone Goes Corporate with Push E-Mail, Exchange Support, and Other Enterprise Upgrades
Big news for corporate types from today's Apple iPhone SDK launch event: The much-ballyhooed handset is getting a bunch of enterprise upgrades, including push e-mail and Microsoft Exchange support. Here's the full iPhone update scoop from Gizmodo:
It's getting everything a proper drone phone needs: push email, push calendar, push contacts, global address list, Cisco VPN, certificates and identities, WPA2/ 802.1x, security policies, device configuration and Remote Wipe. Plus, the biggie: Exchange support built into the native mail, calendar and contact apps, with on/off toggles for each of them under the Exchange server tab.If you've been chomping at the bit to get an iPhone but stonewalled because it couldn't drink from the company fountain (so to speak), this looks like your lucky day. I'm not an iPhone user myself, but I do have an iPod touch (the "iPhone-without-the-phone"), and it's far and away the coolest gadget I've ever owned. Photo by Gizmodo.