AT&T offers iPhone for business segment

AT&T is now offering the 3G iPhone to the business class via its Premier Enterprise Portal. Available in black and white, the 3G iPhone not only boasts of the features it already has but also features like Microsoft Exchange and ‘rich HTML email and full web browsing’.

The Enterprise Plan that AT&T is offering charges $45 a month and $30 for accessing web applications like email and others and consumer applications like games on monthly basis. Unlimited text messages come with a fee of just $20 per month while 1500 and 200 will cost a $15 and $5 respectively per month. The ‘pay-per-use’ text messages come with a charge of $0.20 for a text message each sans without the requirement of any plan.

The technical details of 3G iPhone are:

UMTS/HSDPA (850/1900/2100) and GSM/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900)

Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) and Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR

Visual Voicemail

Support for viewing Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, JPEG, and iWork email attachments

Push email, calendar, and contacts through support of Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync

Support for IMAP and POP3 mail servers

Mass delete and move of email messages

Safari web browser with support for Web 2.0 standards

Maps with GPS

App Store

Intelligent QWERTY soft keyboard

Chat-style SMS text messaging

Integrated 2.0 megapixel camera

Widescreen iPod with touch controls

3.5-inch widescreen multi-touch display

Built-in VPN client supporting Cisco IPSec, L2TP/IPsec, and PPTP protocols

WPA2 Enterprise wireless networking with 802.1x authentication

The 3G iPhone for business is available for $199 with 8GB capacity and the 16GB capacity iPhone for $299. A two-year contract is needed for the purchase of iPhone for business.

Now instead of waiting in insanely big queues, business people can grab their share of iPhone offered especially to them through AT&T.