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The smartphone enterprise market seems to be changing lately. Undoubtedly, smartphones will continue to draw attention and dominate the market, mainly due to their applications that provide enterprises with great opportunities to both save more money and carry through their business swiftly and cost-effectively.

For example, the mobile voice service, or MVS, is a perfect fit to firms with international branches, as it provides users with the opportunity to both receive and make wireless international calls from their smartphone, with significantly lower calling fees. In fact, users can make international calls and be charged as if they were using their business’ wireline.

As of now, for the very first time, more business men and women report having an iPhone (45% of smartphone users), than a Blackberry (32% of smartphone users). According to the latest facts, iPhones will keep on gaining ground (and larger market shares) over Blackberries.

What lies behind the rapid change of businesses moving from Blackberry to the iPhone? Simple. Apple has managed to reach out to businesses with much lower maintenance costs, compared to the Blackberry. Indicatively, for an enterprise with 1,000 employees, managing and maintaining the service of the Blackberry could rise to many thousands of dollars, because Blackberry servers require experienced and highly sophisticated personnel to run updates, maintain and manage the servers. For that reason, all work is usually outsourced to a third-party vendor, costing, of course, more money. With Apple’s active synch, on the other hand, most services are handled remotely via Apple. In recent times, cutting even the slightest costs is unquestionably greatly appreciated by all business people.

Going through the features of the iPhone 4, one can immediately see much to appreciate (see MS Office Docs and e-mail servers’ compatibility, business-friendly applications etc.). Simply put, an employee can now do more while on the road than before, in much lesser time.

Another great advantage of the iPhone that makes the Blackberry stay behind is international accessibility. A recent survey wants Japanese business men with offices in the US moving to the iPhone (from the Blackberry) because they could work in the US, Japan and Korea with seamless integration, which is a feature found in the iPhone; yet, only in a single model of Blackberry (Bold). However, rumors say that the new releases from Blackberry will also enable seamless integration, too, at some point in the future.

Thirdly, surfing the net, although not much significantly differentiated, is more preferred with the iPhone, rather than the Blackberry. We believe this happens because Apple is running more effective marketing campaigns in regards the iPhone. In other words, there is a whole more buzz around Apple’s iPhones, instead of Blackberries, that drives demand to the iPhone.

For all the aforementioned reasons, iPhonefixed, with an acute eye to the latest trends, already works closely with large businesses in the UK, repairing their iPhones, ensuring all iPhone users’ queries are answered, and providing the most effective solutions to their iPhone’s problem(s).

Whenever there is iPhone-related trouble, iPhonefixed can certainly get it fixed!