iPhone 5 – not just a tool for easy communication with style, it’s a toolkit to help small and medium business owners. The device has special features to support the business activities and facilitate connecting the business owner with the prospective customers.

These features include PC-free activation, updating, email notifications on the locked screen, email encryption, reminders, private networking, MS Exchange, calendar, IMAP email, contact information, device management, and wireless app distribution. The App Store offers the most amazing support to the businesses weather it’s about secure networking or time management.

Improved Email With Enhanced Inbox

iPhone 5 has advanced email that enables the users to categorize the contacts as VIPs and messages from those VIPs are collected in the VIP inbox. The information about the important email also comes even the screen is locked. VIP email alerts can also be adjusted.

Flag message facility and enhanced video and photo handling, help business owners in sharing pictures and clips easily instead of sending one by one messages carrying attachments.

Larger screen also enables the business owners to view important emails, messages, or attachments without much scrolling.

Improved Hardware And Software For High Quality Communication

Apple has worked hard to improve the hardware and software of iPhone in its latest version.

• Multi microphone system makes the calls clearer.

• ‘Do Not Disturb’ feature keeps the disturbance away as and when it’s required.

• ‘Reply With Message’ feature allows the business owner to reject the incoming call and reply via text to call later. A reminder can also be set to call them later. 

• iMessage is also advanced as it unifies Apple IDs as well as the phone numbers so that a sender can text across iPhone, Mac, or iPad. 

• Apple’s video calling system, FaceTime, also comes under unification.

• Video calls are possible over 3G and 4G networks instead of Wi-Fi connections. 

4G Mobile Broadband

iPhone 5 is the first product of Apple and a first Smartphone of its own kind to support 4G LTE technology. This technology is excellent for mobile data and works 10 times faster. More than just speed, 4G also supports quick connections to other gadgets. It creates Wi-Fi hot spot to which other devices can connect like tablets, laptops, etc.

The bad thing about this latest technology is provided by T-Mobile, under the new name EE, Everything Everywhere. For international travelling, iPhone 5 with 4G technology doesn’t go well with other mobiles having the same technology.

Maps App Supports Business Visibility

The new maps app is amazing and provides the small and medium business owners with turn-by-turn navigation. It stays up to date due to being cloud based.  However, the service can get disturbed if the phone is missing the signals, but a navigation app (stand-alone) is the right option to invest over.

Passbook – Two Way Support To The Business Owners

Passbook is the most amazing feature of iPhone 5 that will replace the boarding passes, loyalty cards, and even the concert tickets. It helps the small and medium business owners in two ways:

• Customers of a business find it great while travelling.

• Business owners can create coupons, cards, or tickets with great ease.

The worth of Passbook isn’t tested as only few companies were using it at the time of iPhone 5 launch. As it’s location aware, so more are the chances the cards created will be sent at the right places, e.g., airport boarding pass and gym membership card. Live data provides information about pickup time or the departure gate.

It’s not difficult to create Passbook tied to locations or time periods and to be delivered via email, websites, or directly from apps. Small and medium business owners can use it with anything that is otherwise printed on a ticket like a barcode, or anything else on a loyalty card, membership card, or a gift.

Speedy Processor Speeds Up Processing

The new processor of iPhone 5 is smoother and faster. Wi-Fi networking that is wireless supports fast data access. It works well with a wide range of mobile sets. Other than 4G, it supports fast 3G networks as well that use technologies like HSPA, HSPA+, and DC-HSDPA. All it makes the device compatible worldwide.

Other Comforts

Among many other features, some small features that please the small and medium business owners include white ear buds for comfortable voice communication, camera that works well in low light, supports quick shooting, and reduces noise, and the most interesting, the panorama mode.

The charging connector is also changed in the new iPhone and that will cost any user now. The lightening connector has replaced the Dock connector. The older alarm clocks and car kits that run on Dock connector will no longer run with lightening connector. Apple can convert a Dock connector into the lightening connector, but it will cost £25.

Siri, the voice control system helps in meeting schedules, driving directions, and messaging. It’s improved in iPhone 5, compared to iPhone 4S. The eye free mode of Siri is in process as Apple is actively engaged with car companies to make Siri be used in cars and users don’t have to look at the screen of iPhone. With Siri, one can also dictate documents or emails without typing.

Managing Employees Has Become Easier With iPhone 5

Apple has made it possible for small and medium business owners to manage their employees without actually keeping an eye over them. Apple Configurator app is the best option even for Mac computers that makes managing the employees’ iPhones a possible dream. This kind of managing is excellent for the small businesses that don’t have well established IT departments. The devices are kept at supervised mode and can be controlled with apps and system settings (all predefined). However, this kind of access is usually time limited or project limited; once the project is over, the access would be annulled.

Apple Configurator can make possible everything from specifying the lock screen images to creating backup of users’ data, from blocking social network sites to routing the web traffic from specific servers. It also sets the Game center or iMessage blocking, limited camera use, denying access to some apps, or even some hardware features.

Business Apps For iPhone 5

The business apps for iPhone 5 are available in two forms; stand-alone apps and connected to bigger system apps.

Stand Alone apps: These include word processor of Apple, spreadsheets of Apple, KeyNote presentation program of Apple, business card scanners, and many other apps that are compatible to MS Office.

Connected To Bigger System Apps: These include remote access apps, e.g., LogMeIn to control PC or Mac from iPhone, Salesforce Mobile providing salesforce data access, and many more.

As per claims of Apple, there are apps for almost everything. From creative tattoo designs to customer management apps, App Store is flooded with everything. Compared to Google’s Play Store having 675,000 apps, Apple’s App Store has 700,000 apps. Google apps are more vulnerable to malware as Android is the main target of malware writers; however, iPhone apps are free from such malware attacks.

For small and medium businesses, iPhone 5 can be the best choice as huge numbers of business management apps are available at the store and the features of the device are already amazing. However, unlock iPhone 4s or 5 (depending on the version) is essential to get the maximum business advantages from this Smartphone.

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Author Bio:
This contribution is made by Micheal Shore. He is writer and auditor at unlockiPhonezone.com. The company provides unlock iPhone 4s services.