Nexus One vs. Top 10 Phone Security Requirements

hiouridah writes "Consumer Grade or Enterprise Ready? The Nexus One is entering a smart phone market that is taking increasing heat from enterprises for their lack of robust security features. So how does the Nexus One stack up?"

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N1 vs Iphone

[Karganeth]

521MB RAM vs 256MB RAM
800x480 vs 480x320
1Ghz vs 600Mhz
5MP vs 3MP
AMOLED vs TFT

To top it off the nexus one is a slimmer device. Need I say anymore? The iPhone is no longer king! Hoorah!

For those who don't want to skim TFA

[DJRumpy]

Screen Lock (including gestures to unlock in addition to alphanumeric codes)
VPN support
Standard Wireless Support (Wireless-N as well which is nice)
Application Sandboxing
Lacks Corporate Policy Enforcement (fail for enterprise)
Application Signing - Doesn't require trusted signers which defeats the purpose
No hardware encryption (fail for enterprise)
No Remote Wipe (fail for enterprise)

IMO, the phone definitely seems ready for the home user, but is very lacking for enterprise

King? iPhone Is The 3rd Place Phone

[MediaStreams]

http://www.intomobile.com/2009/11/12/apple-iphone-takes-third-place-in-q3-global-smartphone-sales.html

Nokia is the king.
RIM behind them.

And finally Apple in third place. So, no, Apple and iPhone isn't the king of anything in the cellphone market.

Re:King? iPhone Is The 3rd Place Phone

[Patch86]

And no consumers want choice, right? People much prefer to compromise on what they want from a product because of a limited product line, obviously!

(Nokia sells a range of different devices filling a whole range of price and hardware niches. Seeing as their combined range outsells Apples combined range by a considerable amount, I'd guess it's a strategy which is serving them pretty well).

Nexus One vs iPhone 3Gs vs. N900

[Hurricane78]

I’m sure if you ask the Japanese, they will laugh in your face. But a quick comparison:

Nexus One vs iPhone vs. N900

CPU: 1GHz Qualcomm SnapDragon | 600 Mhz ARM Cortex-A8 + PowerVR SGX | 600 MHz ARM Cortex-A8 + PowerVR SGX
RAM: 512MB | 256MB | 1GB
Display: 800x480 AMOLED | 480x320 TFT | 800x480 TFT
Camera: 5 MP, LED flash | 3 MP, no flash | 5 MB + 0.3 MP (dual), LED flash | (All without optical zoom, which in this day and age, is pathetic.)
Storage: 4 GB + unlimited | 16 GB (fixed) | 32 GB + unlimited
Battery: 1400 mAh | 1219 mAh (non-removable) | 1320 mAh | (all 3.7 V li-ion)
Input: capacitive touchscreen + trackball | multi-touch touchscreen | resistive touchscreen + 38-key backlit keyboard
OS: Android | iPhone OS | Maemo Linux
Dimensions: 119 * 59.8 * 11.5 mm | 115.5 * 62.1 * 12.3 mm | 110.9 * 59.8 * 18 mm
Java support: yes | no | yes
GPS: They all got A-GPS and Wi-Fi triangulation is possible with a software. Although from what I heard, the iPhone has that software built-in. (I bought it for 3€ for my Nokia, so not much trouble there.)
Ability to put on it and do with it what you want: likely | locked down | absolutely
FM radio: no | no | yes

That’s about the differences I could make out. I hope this gives a better picture. I tried to stay unbiased. (And I’m sure I will draw hate for this. ;) As always: No guarantees.

Re:Nexus One vs iPhone 3Gs vs. N900

[jspenguin1]

The N900 has 256MB actual RAM, plus 768MB swap on an internal MMC card. It has to have more memory because unlike the iPhone and Android, applications must be explicitly closed (by closing the window) before they are unloaded.

The internal storage card is split into three partitions: 2GiB app storage, 768MiB swap, 25GiB user. The reason the app storage is separate is because it is formatted ext3, but the user storage must be formatted FAT for Windows hosts to access it through USB Mass Storage. Some applications (games, mostly) do install large data files there, though.

Re:RIM's bread and butter

[ArhcAngel]

Thanks, for some reason Google failed me. But it would probably be better to direct to the actual article rather than a tech blog about the article...

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/RIM_agrees_to_pass_BlackBerry_content_on_condition/rssarticleshow/3056271.cms

from the article:

"The encrypted data packets sent through BlackBerry are password protected and could be deciphered only with the help of "Public Key" and "Private Key" together. The other provision is to build a super computer, which could take nearly three years and the results beyond a certain frequency were not guaranteed.

So yeah they "helped" the Indian government snoop but hardly gave them a master key.

Re:4 real issues

[Enderandrew]

If I recall (and I can be mistaken) the big issue is that the iPhone can only do encryption one-way when syncing. Apple was literally bidding on a government contract for iPhone usage in the military, and the bid got thrown out when that was uncovered.

Oddly enough, Apple has still yet to fix the issue.

Re:At least he avoided using "sheeple"

[indiechild]

The universe doesn't revolve around the US.