Unless you’ve had your head in the sand over the last several months, you’ve surely heard of the Apple iPad™. This smart device has really taken off – at last count over 275 million of them have been sold. This is the tip of the large iceberg in the smart device market. Over the next several years we will see more and more activity in this space. It’s critical if you are looking at these for your business applications that you make sure they work with these devices before outfitting your company with them. We’ve done some testing with the iPad, iPhone and Android phones over the last several months. Our CNG-Web product works fairly well on the smartphones although scaling a document to a readable size means you can only see a portion of the document at a time, but it’s still quite usable and I find myself checking on documents when I’m out of the office more and more on my phone. I see a day coming when I’ll no longer lug a laptop around the airport.
We checked out CNG-Web on an iPad and it performs well, but the bigger surprise was we discovered one of our clients was already using the iPad in place of his laptop. His server was configured to run Terminal Services, so he downloaded a Remote Desktop App for his iPad, connected it to his server and he’s up and running with the full CNG Client on his iPad. Again it’s very usable and the screen is big enough to view an entire document.
More and more of these lightweight browsing appliances are coming. If you have any stories about using CNG-SAFE in a mobile environment on a non-standard platform, we’d love to hear about it.
