
HOW TO SELL AGAINST CONSUMER
GRADE SMARTPHONES
If your customers are considering deploying consumer
smartphones, be sure to share the numbers published by
the world-renowned mobile analyst group VDC research
that prove that over five years, enterprises will
spend 50 percent less to purchase and support
rugged smartphones vs. consumer smartphones.
Factors include:
• Consumer smartphones fail 20 percent of the time
• Consumer smartphones do not have enough power to
last a full shift 20 percent of time
• The device must be replaced more frequently due to
lack of durability
• The cost of downtime when a device breaks
• Faster device churn often translates into the need for
new accessories for new models
• Incremental costs to add accessories to obtain
business critical features, such as industrial bar
code scanning
(Motorola has developed a TCO tool to enable the
creation of a customized TCO analysis for specific
customer requirements and profiles, with an expected
availability for sales teams in November 2013.)
Some customers may believe that a consumer device is
“good enough” to use in the enterprise. However, as the
following table will illustrate, consumer solutions are not
yet good enough for enterprise verticals. Even though
the initial acquisition cost is lower, further scrutiny
demonstrates productivity loss, IT challenges, and higher
TCO is realized with the use of consumer devices.
Additionally, while consumerization poses a potential threat
to our business, it also poses a potential market opportunity.
Enterprise customers have additional requirements for
mobile computing devices that are not met by consumer
devices. The TC55 offers all the positive elements of a
consumer smartphone (sleek look, ease of use, etc.), while
addressing the specific needs of the enterprise.
PARTNER BRIEF
TC55
THE VALUE OF AN ENTERPRISE-CLASS DEVICE
TC55
CONSUMER
SMARTPHONE
WHY IT MATTERS
Enterprise durability
IP67 sealing, 4 ft./1.2 m drop
rating, tumble spec and hardened
Corning
®
Gorilla
®
glass display
Fragile, particularly the display
Consumer devices are three times more likely to fail in the first year.
2
The average first year failure rate
for rugged devices is 7 percent, compared with the 23 percent for consumer devices – and consumer
device failure rates in excess of 50 percent are not uncommon. The cause of 77 percent of those failures
is a dropped device, which results most commonly in a cracked display.
The TC55 can handle the drops, spills and rainy days that are common in every day business use; this
increased durability keeps the TC55 in the hands of users, with lower repair costs. The Gorilla glass used
in the TC55 is thicker than displays found in most consumer smartphones enhancing the durability of one
of the most vulnerable elements of a consumer smartphone.
Intensive, industrial
quality scanning support
Integrated linear scanner for
1D scanning; Bluetooth ring-style
accessory for 1D/2D scanning
Typically offers scanning via the
camera — inferior performance
can be frustrating for users even
in light scanning applications
The TC55’s high power scanning keeps workers productive in any scanning environment. The optional
integrated 1D linear scanner and Bluetooth ring-style imager are ideal for intensive, all day scanning
applications.
However, even when users require just light or occasional scanning, the TC55 outperforms its consumer
grade counterparts. Its 8 MP camera is specially tuned to scan 1D and 2D bar codes, greatly improving the
bar code scanning experience through a camera.
All TC55 scanning solutions include Motorola’s special software algorithms that enable scanning of poorly
printed, damaged and scratched codes. Where consumer devices returned an erroneous bar code read as
much as 10 percent of the time, the Motorola scan engine mis-decode rate was negligible.
Native integrated scanning
After-market sled attachment:
To add “enterprise” scanning to a
consumer device, customers will
need to add a sled to the device
Sleds can impact mobile device ergonomics and economics — sleds often cost two to three times that of the
consumer mobile device, making total acquisition cost on par with the typical enterprise class device.
Our own internal testing on one of the most-used third party sleds revealed a lack of durability and sealing,
which will increase the failure rate, likely translating into the purchase of multiple sleds over the course of the
lifespan of a mobile device.
The following table shows how the TC55 stacks up against popular smartphones in the enterprise:
2 5. Mobile Device TCO Models for Line of Business Solutions; Volume 1/Track 7: Enterprise Mobiliity Mobile Device TCO; David Krebs; VDC Research Group, Inc.; 2012 (Slides 4, 18, 28 and 29)
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