Best Business Mobiles September 2010

Features like mobile email have been in play a long time but its only recently that business oriented devices have skyrocketed in range and quality. Powerful and packed with email, internet and editing features, these business mobiles are workhorses you'll find easy to get to grips with.

Blackberry: Bold 9700 Pros: Intuitive, feature-packed email, great QWERTY keyboard and responsive touchpad

Cons: Limited customisation of home screen.

Killer App: Email – A full featured email interface lets you flag and prioritise, and the Bold 9700 supports push-email for Microsoft exchange as well as popular web mail.

Verdict: Still the ultimate messaging device and the slickest, quickest blackberry yet.

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Blackberry: Pearl 3G

Pros: Top of the line email, along with HSDPA and Wi-Fi in a pocket friendly body.

Cons: Browser doesn’t auto fit non-mobile sites and the track pad is slightly unresponsive.

Killer App: Design – Despite being in par as one of the most powerful blackberry devices available, the Pearl 3G is also RIM’s smallest ever device.

Verdict: Classic Blackberry high performance squeezed into the smallest body yet.

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HTC: Touch Pro 2 Pros: Perfectly spaced QWERTY keyboard, flip-activated speakerphone and push-email.

Cons: Slow GPS

Killer App: QWERTY Keyboard – Excellent to type on, this spacious keyboard features a dedicated number line as well.

Verdict: Good email phone with useful business features such as the ‘push internet’.

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Nokia: N97 Mini Pros: Tactile, smaller keyboard excellent Facebook app great email and GPS

Cons: Nokia’s Ovil Store still in infancy so range of available apps is somewhat limited.

Killer App: Live Feeds – Useful information from the news to email to social networking sites such as Facebook can be streamed live onto the home screen.

Verdict: A capable phone with nice extras in the RSS feeds and Facebook app.

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HTC: HD2 Pros: Top-notch web, media and mapping, thanks to a vibrant 4.3-inch screen.

Cons: An unimpressive 448MB of on-board memory and no bundled micro SD card.

Killer App: High Def Screen – The biggest available on any mobile phone.

Verdict: The best WinMo handset we’ve seen. There’s so much going on inside this eye-catching device, it’s frightening.

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Nokia: E72 Pros: Excellent keyboard, Nokia messaging, fast GPS and mammoth battery life.

Cons: Non-Exchange users of outlook won’t be able to access calendars

Killer App: Email – Offers push support for up to 10 email accounts

Verdict: A fine business device, but lacks the more consumer appeal.

 

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