Want a phone that can do *real* work? Here’s what a serious mobile device should look like You wouldn’t know it from the Apple fanboy hallelujahs and breathy press coverage, but the iPhone isn’t the only game in town. In fact, as much as many InfoWorld staffers may admire the iPhone’s whizzy interface (we are consumers, after all), we don’t think it’s a particularly good phone for hardcore business users. InfoWorld’s Senior Technologist Tom Yager said as much earlier: he outlined the iPhone’s many shortcomings back in July and drafted a lengthy pros and cons list (heavy on the cons) to further illustrate his point.Yager also promised to follow up with a series of reviews of real business-ready devices. I’m happy to report that he’s kept his word. Today, Tom has hands-on reviews of not one but two enterprise mobile devices: the BlackBerry 8800 and the Nokia E61i. Wednesday he completes the package with reviews of the Nokia E65, the T-Mobile Wing, the BlackBerry Curve, the HTC Advantage, and the AT&T 8525.“I’ve been working on this review since April,” says Yager, “culling the mobile marketplace until I reached a set of devices I consider to be leaders in their categories.” Tom’s picks constitute the cream of the crop across the three key mobile platforms: BlackBerry, Nokia Series 60 3rd Edition, and Windows Mobile Professional 6. And he’s not done testing these devices, both in the lab and in the field. “For every trip that I take, I bring along a different device and force myself to be dependent on it,” Yager explains. That means readers can reasonably expect his evaluations and opinions to “evolve over time,” as he puts it. I encourage you to follow Tom’s dynamic assessments regularly on his Ahead of the Curve blog. InfoWorld 100 deadline extended Judging by a string of frantic e-mails and phone calls I’ve received during the past week, some of you need a little extra time to submit entries for the InfoWorld 100 awards, honoring the year’s smartest IT projects. Don’t worry — we’ve cut you some slack and extended the deadline to September 10. As always, we’re looking for ambitious efforts that delivered quantifiable value to the business during the past year. Successful projects are typically not out-of-the-box implementations: They involve many moving parts, multiple products and/or technologies, and a good bit of elbow grease to pull off. If that sounds familiar to you, head over to our nomination form and tell us what you’ve got. Winners will be announced in mid-November. Technology Industry