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HSBC to ditch BlackBerry for iPhone?

13 August 2008 Be the first to comment

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Reports have surfaced that HSBC is considering adopting Apple's iPhone as its "official corporate mobile device" and ditching Research in Motion's Blackberry system.

Brenton Hush, chief information officer at HSBC's Australia and New Zealand division, told reporters that the group is considering rolling out the iPhone to a potential "200,000 people".

This would result in one of the largest ever iPhone orders and could pave the way for other global banks to adopt the iPhone as their standard staff mobile device.

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14 August 2008

I suspect that the Aussie executives will baulk at 1/3G iphones.

The bugs aren't worked out yet as is evidenced by the slow connection speeds observed on Aussie networks.

It would be akin to deploying Windows XP SP0 on your corporate network the first day it was released.

I expect Apple will give them away to HSBC just for the PR.

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