Ahh, but it is not secure known delivery method that will recover partially delivered emails and confirm the receipt by the intended receiver. Blackberry and GoodLink have the corner on this market.

My employer has issued a corporate wide message of: "you WILL be fired no matter who you are if you dare to try to use the iPhone for corporate use."

There are loads of other security concerns that I won't waste bandwidth detailing here. However, I found it extremely curious that even for a consumer device, they didn't include an app that allows you to wipe memory and lock the device remotely. Treos and Blackberries both have this functionality either native or third party. It's just too damned easy to have an app to do this to leave it out.

I have an iPhone (company supplied to report on issues for our customers) and a 2.5 year old Treo 650. I won't bash the iPhone, but have to say that I am perplexed at the gushing of support for it when it lacks so much functionality out of the gate. I am not a Treo fan boy - it's just a device. But I could do so much more when the 650 came out 2.5 yrs ago. Are we really separating the hype from the reality? Outside of loads of work related functionality, my main three uses for the Treo are music, games (loads of waiting in airports) and web browsing. I have all three working pretty darned well and have to add Internet Radio to the music category which is delivered via Pocket Tunes. I'm open to other thoughts on how much better the iPhone is for music (I have an iPod given to me at an IT event in a drawing, so know it well) but there are very little to no games except via the slow 'net (this IS OS X right?) and browsing with my Opera browser on the Treo is better than Safari IMHO after a couple of weeks of comparison - of course the iPhone's larger screen is very much appreciated, but comes at the cost of the keyboard switch out. As a consumer device, the keyboard thing isn't a big deal at all and in fact is a plus.

To get back to the main point, there are serious security concerns with the iPhone that causes me to give it a double thumbs down, and support the ban from all company use until they get up to snuff with their much older competitors' level of security even a Ma and Pa Kettle require.