Which smartphone OS would you choose for your users ?

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Published on 2010-04-09T12:31:09Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 12:33 UTC
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While we currently only use windows mobile smartphone, my boss seems less and less reluctant to try and choose a new kind of OS for our users corporate phones.

For some reasons, we can't use a Blackberry Enterprise Server, so i guess our only choice is between Iphone OS and Android (or Blackberry without BES ? I don't really know if this works fine)

We need activesync capable smartphones of course, and activesync security policies must be available (pin when using your phone for example). Centralized Phone management would be nice too :D

Any ideas on what should be the best smartphone to choose for our users ?

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