Heh, and honestly you could almost say they've only had 2, given Nintendo wasn't really the Nintendo we know now before Yamauchi.

Definitely, however that's less of an issue for employees that leave or are let go, because there's an expectation for them to return all company property. If they don't return the company phone, there's a little bigger of an issue that just data theft; they're stealing tangible company property.

Why would a company require me to bring a smart device to use as just a phone?

I don't know, and the 'requirement' is the biggest issue I have with this article. In my experience, this is really about *allowing* employees to bring in their own devices.

Most people want the ability to bring in their own devices like tablets, Macbook Air, etc... The use of the device as a phone is such a small niche it's not worthy of much debate.

In my experience, I disagree with this, since many (most?) people don't like carrying around two phones, while I very much enjoy having a work PC that I don't have to support directly myself.

Yeah I'm not sure why the article said "require", when really employers are starting to *allow* BYOD.

If they fired me just because I didn't provide my own phone it would be wrongful dismissal.

Unfortunately a good chunk of the tech industry is at-will employment, where you can get fired for any (or far more likely, *no*) reason.

If they could remotely wipe that, I'd actually be interested.

Out of curiousity, if you change those basic management settings, does your email still work?

It appears to be built into the Android email client that supports Exchange, so it's not a setting that can be manually toggled. When I first add the account on my phone and punch in my connection settings, that security dialog pops up, and if I don't "agree", I'm just not able to pull email down.

If I understand you correctly, your company is installing software on employee's phones that can monitor and access their communications. That would seem to violate a number of federal laws.

While I certainly think this is BAD, it's probably not illegal, because permission is technically being given by the employee.

Ultimately I don't think Gartner is correct in saying companies will *require* employees to BYOD, it's far more likely that they'll *allow* employees to use their own devices, as long as they agree to/install this type of software, which is what is currently being done.

A lot of modern corporate phone systems allow employees to dial through them, so the number that will show up on your phone *is* the internal number.

That's interesting - do you know if/how this can be done?

Ah, you never worked at IT or CIS student.

Idea nouns don't have payroll departments, so I never found them too lucrative.

Self-aware? You do understand what drivers mean, right?

Just because you don't know something doesn't mean you have to fish for explanations, you can use Wikipedia!

any company that allows confidential or classified data on a personal device is looking for a lawsuit by someone, and prohibits it if they are smart.

...without compensating security controls, yes I'd agree. Even so, confidential data has many different classifications - most companies consider all work email to be confidential, but far fewer require VPN or physical network access to be able to retrieve that email. Other work resources, however, often *do* require additional security when attempting to access them.

How many people can function on a tiny ass phone and be productive workers?

I'm not sure I follow you here - this whole article is about replacing phones with phones, not primary work machines with phones.

There is always an airplane mode too.

Well, not always. You deal in such absolutes!

Your classes didn't thought you how printer drivers work?

Self-aware printers require drivers?

Yea, you will not find it in Tiger Direct or NewEgg.

What are we voting on, again?

Can you name some vaporwares according to your feeling and emotions?

Why do you think they're vaporware!

When you exit a job, it is sometimes reviewed by your HR to avoid various legal matters. They have the right to go over your files.

Your employer made you print out your own files and hand them over to HR? Now you're just not making ANY sense.