The New York Police Department decided a little less than a year ago to change its mobile phone platform from the defunct Windows Phone to Apple's platform, with the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus being the phones selected for city police officers to fight. against crime. The reason was none other than the end of support announced by Microsoft for this mobile platform.
Lower Manhattan patrol officers have stopped by the old police academy in Gramercy Park to pick up your new mobile phone, an iPhone 7 or 7 Plus depending on each officer and their needs, as reported by New York Daiy News.
The plan to replace Microsoft's mobile platform with Apple's will mean the replacement of some 36.000 Nokia phones In the coming weeks, devices that were initially purchased in 2014, through a program to modernize police operations and that cost the city $ 160 million. All the telephones that are collected in this change, will be cleaned and sold again to the company, so that they can be put back on the market.
While the previous modernization program had a cost of 160 million dollars, this update will have no cost for the coffers of the city council, since it is a plan renew the AT&T company, with whom the city of skyscrapers has contracted mobile lines.
The department's plans are to rapidly replace the old Nokia at a rate of 600 units dailys, as reported by the New York Police Department of Information and Technology.
Through the iPhone, and thanks to software designed exclusively for this department, police officers will be able to access the 911 call details, access criminal records when they answer a call and logically take videos and photos to document their reports.