Smartphones – a call for better safety on the move

✍ Scribed by Rafael Khokhar

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 69 KB
• Volume: 2006
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1353-4858
• DOI: 10.1016/s1353-4858(06)70354-3

✦ Synopsis

2006 looks set to be the year of the smartphone with sales expected to double worldwide, and many new models preparing to hit the market in the coming months. Several smartphone vendors are quickly adopting the Windows Mobile 5 platform to take advantage of the new features in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. Mobile working is more popular than ever, with many businesses keen to exploit the new technology to raise employee productivity, and leave them almost no excuse for being unreachable.

According to the annual Mobile Usage Survey, approximately 20% of the average enterprise workforce has some form of mobile device and businesses are seeing benefits as a result. Productivity is improving because employees can keep projects 'ticking over' whilst away from the office on other business, staff have greater job satisfaction because of the increased flexibility, and the mobile office acts as a disaster recovery back-up if the 'real' office is unusable for any reason.