BlackBerry, iPhone and Droid, Oh My!
As a visit to any electronics or wireless phone store makes clear, you’ve got a large—sometimes overwhelming—range of smart phone choices, priced from around $100 to $600, according to this month’s Illinois CPA Society magazine, Insight.
This includes the highly visible BlackBerries and Apple iPhones, along with a plethora of makes and models from vendors like HTC, Motorola, Nokia, Palm and Samsung. And there’s quite a choice of potential carriers as well, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, and sundry smaller players and resellers.
Factors that should drive your smart phone decision include,
- Which phones and carriers will support the apps you need?
- Which phones include the functional features you’ll need to deal with business outside of the office, for instance camera, video, keyboard, minimum display size, battery run-time?
- Which carriers offer coverage where you need it? For instance, do you expect to travel outside the United States, and if so, do you want to use a single phone?
- Will you need to “tether”—in other words, let your notebook or netbook (or other smart-phone users) access and use the smart phone’s broadband data connection, via a cable, Bluetooth and/or WiFi? (Not all carriers offer plans that allow this.)
MORE at the Illinois CPA Society’s Insight magazine article: Smart Phone IQ – INSIGHT – May June 2010.
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