The only reason your friend loses out...
Is because he's allowing himself to worry overmuch about image.
Given, I don't know just how 'bad' the phone he was given is... But I work for a company and got a fairly new HTC Inspire. And since VPN wasn't working from home from reason, I got my boss to allow the wi-fi hotspot tethering to be turned on for it. When I'm on-call, I take the phone with me virtually everywhere. When I'm not.. I don't. it's really that simple. Unless my work is paying my cellphone bill, I DO NOT use it for work calls. And yes, I have had jobs which did.
The only real reason work devices are a 'pain' is if they is because it can tie you more tightly to your work.... IF YOU LET IT.
Part of the problem with the BYOD that people seem to push for, is that it can be similar to the problems of facebook and other social idiocy. Your work files don't belong on your personal devices, and your personal info does not belong in your work's database (in effect).
