HSBC to Ditch Blackberry for iPhone

August 13, 2008 by Daniel Menjívar • #apple #news #technology

The world’s largest bank, HSBC (HSBC Holdings PLC), is considering ditching the Blackberry in favor of the iPhone.

Brenton Hush, CIO for HSBC in Australia and New Zealand, said on Tuesday that the bank is looking at rolling out Apple’s iPhone across it’s worldwide workforce of 300,000.

Read more at CBCnews.ca and ZDNet.com.au

Apple has not yet released official sales numbers for the iPhone 3G beyond the first weekend, but analysts predict that Apple will sell at least 4.5 million iPhones this quarter alone, in addition to Apple’s sales in 22 additional countries later this month.