HSBC Denies Report of Major iPhone Purchase
Global banking giant, HSBC has refuted a report last week that the company was considering dumping its BlackBerry handsets in favour of Apple's iPhones.
"There are no current plans to replace the BlackBerry," HSBC spokesman Donal McCarthy told The Canadian Press from the bank's headquarters in London. "It is the business standard." He added.
However last week, HSBC's Australia and New Zealand chief information officer Brenton Hush told ZDNet that "We are actually reviewing iPhones from a HSBC Group perspective ... and when I say that, I mean globally,"
Had a switch occurred - then it was reported that it would involve some 200,000 handsets in the largest single customer order for the touchscreen handset to date.
Whilst Apple has worked hard to make the iPhone more appealing to corporate users, adding in email synchronization services and a centralized software update facility - the handset has yet to win over the BlackBerry addicts.
In a research note issued just after the 3G iPhone was announced, Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray had warned that "most businesses using the BlackBerry platform have also purchased specialized hardware, which represents a significant hurdle for widespread iPhone adoption in business environments,"
Posted to the site on 19th August 2008
