Preview: iPhone 3.0 hopes from an IT pro

05.06.2009

Another thing that is pretty much a business-only need. For anyone in a profession where phone calls are billable hours, call logs are critical to your life, and (again, assuming that my interpretation of two words are correct) the addition of call logging in the iPhone will make it a lot more useful to those folks who need them, especially the legal world.

While Apple's iPhone Configuration Utility is a decent first start, it has issues. For example, while I can e-mail the configuration file to a device, there is still a significant amount of work to be done on the device to enable that profile, and once installed, the profile info is not protected terribly well. Let's assume for the moment that this update allows a sysadmin to push profile data out over the air without any kind of e-mail intermediary, and then encrypts that data on the iPhone. System administrators who have to provision hundreds or even thousands of devices will be able to take another look at the iPhone if this comes to pass.