HSBC placing a 200,000 unit iPhone order?

Reader Tim knocked me over this link from the Boy Genius Report — quoting ZDNet Australia who reckon HSBC is considering dumping Blackberry for iPhone.

The iPhone is most certainly useful now that it’s got Exchange — it does work, and very well. That’s connected the dots for me — contacts sync, calendar sync and so on.

But if there’s any accuracy in this, HSBC are going to have to buy a 800,000 iPhone remote chargers. Enough for 4 each.

One for the bedside.

One for the car.

One for the office.

One for out-and-about.

The iPhone is a super unit for business purposes — in concept. The browser, the maps, the smart, simple easy interface that *anyone* can use… But the battery. Oh dear, the battery…