subject: Blackberry Mobile Phones Nonetheless Is Better Than Android About Stability, Assessment Discovers [print this page] RIM's Blackberry continues to be clear leader in cellular stability with marketplace share leader Android operating system lagging badly, a "good points and weak spot" analysis from the 4 large platforms has concluded.
Enterprise Readiness of Customer Mobile Platforms rated every single platform on the basis of numerous criteria, like common device security, app security, code signing, authentication, device wipe potential, firewalling, and virtualisation, assigning every category a score out of 5. (See also "Smartphone Security: The way to Maintain Your Handset Secure.")
Supplied exactly how lengthy it has been about, Android scored comparatively poorly, the younger Windows mobile reasonably properly. BlackBerry features a lengthy history within the enterprise market place -- the other people emerged as customer platforms -- but will nevertheless really feel affirmed by its sturdy showing in manageability and corporate device manage.
"Although Android is now offered in much more current versions (four.x), version two.x is nonetheless essentially the most widely deployed on current and new handsets. This can be a security danger in itself; there's no central indicates of offering operating method updates, which means that a lot of users stay unprotected from crucial vulnerabilities to get a prolonged period," note the authors, echoing a sentiment that Google have to have grown exhausted hearing from about the business.
Essentially, all the article has no direct connection to any in the platforms discussed and was researched by Altimeter Group and Bloor Study on behalf of security organization Trend Micro.
"Against the developing, unstoppable backdrop of consumerisation and BYOD [bring your personal device], each mobile device can be a danger to organization," stated Trend Micro CTO, Raimund Genes.
"There is nevertheless a powerful 'consumer marketing' legacy in some quarters and this really is negating a number of the progress produced on the enterprise front. Indeed, several of the attributes we've examined within the report are nevertheless firmly 'enterprise-unready.'"
RIM lately botched an announcement which appeared to draw back from customer device improvement in favour of its classic organization marketplace. The query is no matter whether such a division is any longer meaningful in an age driven by the BYOD Trend Micro's report highlights. The as soon as distinct customer and enterprise markets could have merged into a single.
1 winner may be Microsoft, a firm with decades of knowledge serving companies and lots of preferred enterprise computer software to assist it push Windows Telephone.
Each Windows Telephone 7.five and Android two.three stay weak in core applications including company messaging, nevertheless, scoring zero is practically each category analyzed.
