With the impending release of the new second generation iPhone, the current market leader in business phone technology, BlackBerry, is starting to look a little worried. While the launch of the iPhone may have reignited the spark in the mobile industry, the power and dominance that Apple enjoys with the MP3 player market and the music download market has BlackBerry starting to wonder how much longer it’ll be the brand of choice for high end mobile phone buers.

The first iPhone may have been a beautiful piece of technology that offered a lot of features, but it didn’t lend itself to business use and wasn’t really adopted by the average BlackBerry user. Despite its great web access and brilliant design, the lack of push email meant that business users couldn’t rely on it to keep in touch with what was happening in their schedules.

However, the recent announcement by Steve Jobs about the 2nd generation iPhone revealed that the biggest player in the business technology game, Microsoft, was getting involved with their greatest rival, Apple. Microsoft Exchange will now be available for the new iPhone, meaning that it will have all of the power of email, contacts and calendar that other Microsoft products enjoy.

This puts the new iPhone directly up against the BlackBerry, and the plans to open it up to different networks means that BlackBerry’s dominance of the market could be about to end.