Mobile Wise In Christmas
Christmas is an ideal time to buy a business mobile phone, either for a family member or a friend or even for yourself. If the business phones are on your mind then here are some features that you need to look for when buying one.
Microsoft Exchange integration - Most business phones like the Nokia N8 sync with Microsoft Exchange server through the air to give the user constant access to email, contacts and calendar.
E-mail attachments - This is a basic criteria for many professionals. The phone should be able to view and edit documents such as Microsoft Office (Word, Powerpoint and Excel). Compatibility with PDF and JPEG are also important.
Full-featured browsing - the integrated browser can view Web pages well and should make it possible to browse through them easily. Multi-touch phones should be pretty ideal since they will support the pinching and zooming functionality.
Apps - Many of the online app stores provide a variety of applications and tools that can help business users to do their work easily.
Contacts Management - Most of the smartphone platforms offers easy management of contacts, group them and also arrange all the conversations had with a particular contact, together. This makes it easy for business users to keep track of things and stay well prepared especially when interacting with the customer.
Safety - This is very important for a business phone. Some of the features offered by companies phones - data encryption, password protection, GPS tracking and remote wiping of data in case your phone.
Other business functions - touchscreen, physical QWERTY keyboard, microSD card, USB connectivity, WiFi, 3G compliance and multimedia features (Come People in costumes deserve breaks too ...!)
If the budget is not a restriction, here are some phones that can be found on the Optus Business site:
� Optus Apple iPhone 4 (IOS 4)
� Samsung Galaxy S (upgradeable to Android 2.2)
� Nokia N8
� BlackBerry Torch 9800 (native OS)
Then again, these phones work out to be quite wallet friendly when taken with contracts from the network operators. They come either with a subsidized price or free and has reasonable monthly fees. Even freebies such as data, text and calls will be included in the pay monthly offers.