The U.S. Department of Defense is going to order 650,000 iOS devices to replace BlackBerry devices. The DoD will order 120,000 iPads, 100,000 iPad minis, 200,000 iPod touches, and 210,000 various iPhones models. Electronista has been told that “more than half are headed to the battlefield, afloat, and to associated support commands. Most of the rest will stay [at the Pentagon].”
The DoD currently has 470,000 BlackBerry devices and none of them operate on BlackBerry 10 OS because funds originally earmarked for the new OS have been eliminated by the sequester. The DoD estimates that there will be 8 million smartphones in service over the next three years, and most devices used to handle classified data have been subjected to pricey modifications that increase their final cost up to four times.
Source: Electronista, via TechCrunch