We moved last week to all company phones being iPhones. Previously we were a mix of BlackBerry and iPhones, but the business case for going completely to the iPhone was very compelling.
First of all, before I enrage ardent BlackBerry fans, there are legitimate reasons for having a BlackBerry the most obvious is the benefit of a lower cost of operating when using data roaming overseas. I am not knocking BlackBerry, but for our circumstances, going to 100% iPhone made sense.
On the savings side, we dropped one server as we no longer needed a server dedicated to BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), and we dropped the monthly running costs as we have found that we all use less than 200MB each month on data, on average. When combined with the generous handset rebates from Vodafone, it made sense to have everyone moved over.
I know we gained on the productivity side as well as the positive user feedback! It also fits in nicely with our philosophy; “if you are going to do it right, do it right for everyone”, so matches up with us all having three screens, fast laptops (Solid State Drives now standard) replaced every 24 months, all of us having gone to Windows 7, the list goes on but I hope you see what I mean.