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Originally Posted by rorytmeadows
I'm having trouble following this reply. I actually mentioned in an earlier post that I'd love to have a better camera with a flash. I think the keyboard was essential here because the COO, CEO, and VP of my company would not like typing on a virtual keyboard. My CEO would throw that in the garbage after one day.
I was saying that a lot of network policies say what a user can and cannot do with their technologies in the company. Instead of looking for a phone that doesn't have a camera, or having the manufacturer make custom units for your company, you need a phone that is compatible with your policies in a way that your Microsoft-certified IT department can easily modify. Enter Windows Mobile and Blackberry. IT specialist takes the company phones and just like they would make network modifications on their servers, they make the modifications to the phone to ban certain things, cameras, etc. to make it easier for business users or to fit with existing policies of the company (for example, if a company does not want you to go on the internet with your work phone, they can hide all options to do so and prevent users from accessing the registry and system files to change it back). If you've met executives before, you know how they like their technology easy and customized to them.
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No man, what I am saying is the Imagio has all of those same network policies, IT guys can hide internet connectivity- everything you say makes the Touch Pro 2 a business phone is also present in the imagio (or the diamond 2). The difference? The diamond 2 and imagio have good cameras with a flash, but they don't have a keyboard.
Yes, pretty much any CEO or COO would throw that garbage away without a keyboard. My point is, I would also throw that garbage away without a keyboard, as would my wife and teenage kids. And we are consumers, not execs.
Somehow HTC got the idea that only business users want a keyboard. And I guess most of the people in this thread are okay with the notion that a stripped down device is still okay as long as it has a keyboard and we can label it a "business centric" device.
Again- the Diamond 2 and Imagio have a better camera, and a flash. They also have all of the "business features" of the Touch Pro 2. They don't, however, have a keyboard.