This is true to a point, however without a device to read your mail on while your own the move, an Exchange server becomes irrelevant. Many many decisions are made away from the office because of a having a handy mail device. When your ride corporate elevators in the morning and evening, go outside at lunch time, you mysteriously see the suits reading their Blackberry. Take a walk around a business district in a major city, this is what you will see.
That statement isn't accurate. Mobile Access is simply one feature of a mail platform. There are other ways to get your email on the go. Also those links were interesting, but they focus on main things such as the need to JB the device or relying on the user having jailborken, installed OpenSSH and then not changing the device password, and then being on an insecure mobile network or Wi-Fi network and then allowing access.
If an employee JB's the device and then does the above, I doubt they will be an employee much longer.
The one thing those articles doesn't state tho is the recent exploit for non-jailbroken phones. However, if it is a corporate device, the employee should not be installing unauthorised apps.
I have had had first hand experience of companies doing an iPhone trial and then not rolling out the iPhone due to security restrictions. In one case that springs to mind it was because the iPhone encryption wasn't string enough, but I don't know if they had the 3G or the 3GS.
On topic, I have both the 9700 and a 3G. For a while I used the iPhone has my 'one' device but I got bored of getting my emails outside of work, so I went back to two devices as it allowed that seperation. However, as a device, the 9700 is very nice, and comparable to my iPhone in a lot of ways. Speed wise they are about the same. I do prefer the look of my iPhone, but I like the darkness of the 9700 as well. I am quick on both keyboards. The battery life on the 9700 is much better than that of my iPhone tho.
