New Zealand police to buy 10,000 iOS devices, beating out Android and BlackBerry
New Zealand Police Commissioner Peter Marshall checks out an Apple iPad during the trial
The news comes a few days after Australia's Treasury Department decided to replace the current BlackBerry models used with iOS devices. That move comes despite problems with Apple Maps that made Australian police and firefighters publicly renounce the app as being life-threatening and dangerous.
"The trial showed the most useful tools for officers were small personal devices for making phone calls or text messaging, accessing email, and accessing information and photo databases, and a larger such as a laptop or tablet for staff who need to do more data entry. Based on frontline officer feedback from the trial the preferred devices are the iPhone as smartphone and iPad for the tablet. The approach used to develop the applications means Police can move to other devices with relative ease as technology changes."-Stephen Crombie, Chief Information Officer, New Zealand Police
source: NationalBusinessReview via AppleInsider
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