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...the whole point of a Pocket "PC" is the ability to customize the device and make it do exactly what you want, right?
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I haven't upgraded from my trusty old Casio yet, but as I remember the strict definition of the Pocket PC the point of it was to have an extension of your desktop. As written, the specs of the original Pocket PC were intended to give somebody a way of having their data available without having to be right next to the main workstation. That's why we have to do things like synchronizing and hard resets. :/
I don't mean to tell anybody what they can and can't do with the hardware that they buy and own. (In the interest of full disclosure, I don't use Activesync and use my device mostly for games, so I'm not exactly a representative Pocket PC user.) But to that point, has Microsoft's documented 'definition' of a Pocket PC changed with the 2002 and 2003 iterations? If a Pocket PC is intended to be a stand-alone device now, then Microsoft has a long way to in the areas of application support and portability. On the other hand, with people installing the .NET framework on everything (including toaster ovens) maybe we're closer to stand-alone Pocket PC's now than we were then.
-KKC, tired out after 45 minutes on the dance game, but that's a subject for a whole other discussion board.