White Paper: New Roles, New Rules: Are Your Smart Phones Tough Enough For Work? Why Emerging Enterprise Applications Require Ruggedness, Reliability

Millions of new smart phones continue to ship every month, and many of them find their way into businesses to help workers do their jobs in innovative new ways. Many of these same phones will be replaced within a year because they are not durable enough to work reliably in new enterprise work environments. When smart phones will be used by new categories of users to support new business processes, there are new requirements for phones themselves. Ruggedness is at the top of the list. If phones fail and worker productivity suffers, the cost is much greater than the price of the phone.