Army Plots Its Smartphone Strategy

gManZboy writes "What kind of smartphone should a soldier have? Ahead of the impending expiration of two communications contracts, the Army's 5th Signal Command is prepping for the possibility of buying thousands of mobile devices. An RFI asks for BlackBerrys, 'emerging smartphones included but not limited to 4G devices such as Androids [and] iPhones,' tablet computers, and wireless broadband access devices. Also in the Army mobile vision: an apps marketplace."

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iPhones win by default

[Anonymous Coward]

Blackberry - designed by untrustworthy Canadians
Android - based on Linux which was written by communists
iPhone - designed by Apple in California

Re:iPhones win by default

[Jimme Blue]

Blackberry - designed by untrustworthy Canadians
Android - based on Linux which was written by communists
iPhone - designed by Apple in California

I think by this logic it's going to have to go to Microsoft (unfortunately):
  - Blackberry => Canadians => socialists => communists
  - Android => Linux => communists
  - iPhone => Apple => California => communists

  - LatestMicrosoftPhoneSoftware => Microsoft => Washington => Confused With Washington, DC => Pentagon => DoD => Command Driven Economy => Shit.......Never mind.

iPhones win by default!

Re:iPhones win by default

[TheRaven64]

Clearly he doesn't know much about the DoD or Apple either. This kind of conversation usually goes something like this:

DoD: Hello, we have a basically unlimited pile of money.
Apple: Hmm. Money, you say? We collect that stuff, can we have some?
DoD: We'd like a hundred thousand iPhones, a signing key that allows us to deploy any software onto them, and the source code for review.
Apple: Yes, yes, whatever. How much money were we talking about?
DoD: A really big pile.
Apple: Will a signature in blood be okay? We have some new interns...