Many (most? all?) big law firms offer a second iPhone (assuming you already have a personal one) for your firm communications, emails, doc access, etc. I’ve always thought the iPhone sucks for work use. It has been designed for your personal, social, and creative life, not really your work life. It interfaces miserably with the Microsoft-centric enterprise processes, apps, and systems of big law, and it presumes you will use it with an iCloud account integrated into the rest of your life.
Thinking back to the heyday of the BlackBerry, I’m a bit nostalgic for it—in particular for the fact it integrated pretty damn well with enterprise use. Physical keys were nice too. Obviously it’s ancient now, but I think a new one with today’s tech but designed exclusively for enterprise use would be pretty cool.
I don’t like putting firm stuff on my personal phone, and a second iPhone or Android just feels wonky. Trying to open something off of iManage on a smartphone, and jumping through weird VPN and app layers to see a Word doc unformatted in preview window, trying to force me to put it in iCloud or the Office 365 cloud, etc…it’s all complete ass. Just my two cents.