Guess NASA aren't Apple fans.

I have used one since release and I'd have to say that the phone has many flaws that should have been weeded out in beta but weren't. I have kept my phone, but I'm already on my first replacement.

Wow Gizmodo!?! Can you scream Apple fanboy any louder? :)

Does anyone think the iphone is business ready?

But it is not business ready...

I'm shocked that the Giz. Didn't you tell us to wait because there weren't adequate applications ready for the iPhone? Talk about flip-floppers.

I guess a touch screen is tough to use when you are in a space-suit.

I am not at all surprised. At my employer (large NASA installation) we have had to fight tooth and nail for all sorts of gadgets. In fact the first Palms were a real pain in the neck to get at first. Another point of interest, all of the available phones from my employer do not have cameras. Models like the 680 are available, but without a camera. So that will have to be the first feature to go for my employer to provide this phone as a business phone.

@MrMaestro: The iPhone actually requires a human touch. You can't work it with a stylus. So wearing thick space-suit gloves wouldn't work at all.

I saw something (on here, I think) where someone had rigged up a damp q-tip with a battery that made it work, but the last thing we need is damp, electric q-tips on space suits.

I dont see how gizmodo flipflopped. They said to wait, nasa says to wait...

Improbable, I hope you are kidding about using it in a space suit. I'm quite sure MrMaestro was kidding, but with you not so obvious.

oh noze, a horridly underfunded dinosaur says no to the iphone, what is apple to do?

bahh half the time they are too drunk to use one anyway.

Well considering that there is no "discount" with the iphone, I'm glad gov't agencies are NOT buying the iphone with my tax money.Granted, I will be more than happy to see our fine gov't agencies pay for a $600 toilet seat, but not $600 for the iphone. That's where I draw the line ________________________________________ . 'nuff said

how coincidental...

my iPhone just said NASA isn't a suitable business. is a tool.

iPod with YouTube player still not suitable for business. Is this news?

I don't know of any businesses that have come out and said that they would be rolling these out as "business tools" to replace Blackberries or Treos. The company that I support has come out very strong against this, actually, won't allow them on premise due to the cameras and the concerns about Wi-Fi implementation (I know, Duke said it's Cisco's fault, not the iPhone's, but the iPhone still brought the problem to light). It's a great personal device, but it's absolutely not a business device on par with the Blackberry or Treo.

With all of the reviews that I've read (even on here, Giz), I didn't think that was much of a surprise?

Are we shocked? Nuh uh

@Jesustron: Maybe that giant graphic at the top of the post?

They are trying to balance the line of blatant fanboyism with the fact that most of their readers couldn't care less about the iPhone.

And this is why we've only gone to the moon once.
Space in 21st century is not what it used to be.

Remember back in the day when we read books about how we'd have a home on the moon in the year 2000!

Well NASA. You keep using those blackberries, and keep reaching for the stars. Maybe one day we will actually get there. Yea, orbiting the earth in a half-assed space station doesn't count. The is old technology--the russians did that 50 years ago!

I think you're reading into it too much. Didnt nasa just admit that their pilots have flown DRUNK.

"""Improbable, I hope you are kidding about using it in a space suit. I'm quite sure MrMaestro was kidding, but with you not so obvious."""

Wow, you really have no idea just how big those space suit gloves are do you? It's completely out of the question to even think about using that tiny touch screen in a space suit.

And no, no one's kidding.

@nosauten:

lack of an iPhone has prevented expanded space exploration?? wow.. I think I've heard it all now.

I didn't realize the USSR had a space station in 1957 either. Of course you mean a satellite, there was no space station until the '70s. If you are going to harp on NASA, try being clever, or correct, one of the two would be nice.

@NOSAUTEN
We landed on the moon 6 times.

My company had a similar bulletin. The iPhone is not ready for business use because of lack of remote delete ability, poor support enterprise email solutions, etc.

All the stuff we know about.

Personally, I think some IT director got tired of people asking him for iPhones.

@XPav: and possibly because the wireless routers would get swamped with Facebook traffic.

The jesus phone isn't meant to be a business tool, just look at the features - music, video, youtube...

I had to fight just to keep brick breaker on my blackberry at my job!

that coming from an agency who lets drunks fly the shuttle...

Back in the very early 70's, a period in my life I like to call "the dark ages", I had a friend that was known in our circles as the one true hippy left from the summer of love. The one who refused to cut his hair, hold down a job, etc. Today, he's a very important lawyer at NASA. A huge Mr BigShot, someone who wouldn't know how to kick back and relax to save his life...

NASA saying the iPhone isn't business ready (read = Not for us) you can pretty much be sure he was in on this decision. If something isn't absolutely dead-ass serious, trimmed to the bone, boring... he would say it was frivilous. This, sadly, is the same guy that used to lay back on the roof of our apartment building from midnight to morning, drinking wine, smoking a joint, and declaring life to be worth only living if you had the freedom to do nothing at all. Sometimes I think I woke up in an alternate universe.

Just sharing is all...

They're just afraid they would get stolen before they even get delivered to employees.

I mean, you had NAS contractors going on shooting sprees and sabotaging ISS computers, petty theft is probably commonplace at KSC and JSC.

And Gizmodo, does Wired Magazine know you are using the patch they made for the Space Race article?

Of course I was joking....I mean how are you going to get reception up there anyways?
(disclaimer: Tha was a joke too).

Yep, NASA's correct. In fact, I bet most of the people who own one hadn't even thought of it as a business phone. It's a designer smart phone, true; but business phone it is not.

Even with all of Nasa's trials and tribulations, the level of achievement is many orders of magnitude higher than the average Gizmodo reader's work with CSS/XML

NASA has got more important issues to attend to, like makeing sure the f'n tiles stay intact on the ship, and a little checklist that wont let them take a unit with clipped wires out of the atmoshpere! DO your job boy's.

NASA's messaging system is Exchange-based. No Exchange support, no iPhone. It's that simple. Blackberry and Treo (via Goodlink) have excellent exchange support.

The IPHONE is an excellent business tool... for the right business. If you work in the "film business" their isn't a better phone you could own. Everyone in the film industry will own an IPHONE by 2009.

I'm out meeting a potential client for example.. "oh what have you worked on".. oh here's the latest commercial / music video / ect... right here on my iphone.. take a look.

This industry is far larger than NASA anyway.. why no articles about how everyone in the entertainment industry is quickly adopting the IPHONE.

the problem is, the iphones market is restricted to spoiled brats, fanboys, and people with way too much money. unfortunately for able, thats no too many people.

*apple