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Nexus One vs. Top 10 Phone Security Requirements

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-remote-wipe-you dept.

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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  1. Specs don't matter by ThrowAwaySociety · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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!

    Pretty sure that the iPhone was never king among the geeks that care about hardware specs. The iPhone is king among the people who care about the number of apps, user experience, and style. The kind of people who base their decision on what they see on TV, or what their friends like, and not what they read on Slashdot.

    You know, the vast majority of the population.

  2. Re:From the article by jeffmeden · · Score: 5, Insightful

    After all, when coding an program they know will be open sourced, programmers are much less likely to add a vulnerable piece of code in the hope it won't be spotted or with the intention to fix it at some later date.

    Beg the question much? Your conclusion is just as vague as the one in the article. I don't have any actual data either, but I would venture that accidental bugs are a much much much greater security risk than malicious ones, open source or not. Of course, it's pretty darn hard to spot a cleverly hidden bit of malicious code (and be able to distinguish it from a bug), so we may never know anyway.

  3. Remote data wipe? by ducomputergeek · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Phones are easy to loose or get nicked. One of the features enterprises like about the Blackbery is the ability to do a remote datawipe. On my iPhone I can set a password. If it's entered incorrectly 10 times, the device automatically wipes itself. I can also do a remote datawipe as well. I've tried googling about this feature on the N1 and so far have found nothing.

    Ability to do a remote data wipe is key for the enterprise market.

    --
    "The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher.
  4. Re:Im going to wait..... by stiggle · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm going to wait for the 6th version to come along.
    I was to see the video footage it takes of "Attack Ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion" :-)

  5. Re:RIM's bread and butter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was going to Google "India RIM backdoor", but quickly thought against that idea.