edit: virain, it looks like you had the same thoughts about this as me, but you were faster posting them. I'll leave my post as is, since I hadn't read yours when I wrote it.
I wouldn't be surprised if he had a phone enabled UMPC and a Bluetooth earpiece. He wouldn't have to carry it himself. One of his paid entourage would carry it for him. I'm sure he doesn't answer his own phone at the office. He probably doesn't answer his cell phone either. An admin would screen his calls and hand him his earpiece, when he needed to take a call.
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Originally Posted by sesummers
I'd have thought it impossible for Bill to actually have USED one of these. Otherwise, the sheer idocy of the lack of a real close button, the utter incompetence of their Bluetooth stack and the ActiveStynk program, and the fact that after 5 years or more of the problem, they still haven't solved the "alarms sometimes don't wake the machine and go off" problem. (You'd think a pocket organizer would make sure to be able to sync the contacts and calendar with Outlook without duplicating appointments, and reliably activate alarms.)
Don't get me wrong- I've owned Pocket PCs since my Casiopia e100 more than 8 years ago- but they're far from perfect, and they don't seem to be getting better. I now have an HTC Mogul with WM6 (with 64MB of RAM) and I STILL have to add 3rd party software to make it easy to actually close apps, or it runs out of memory and won't start the camera app!
(Memo to Bill: DUH!)
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I have a Cingular/AT&T 8525. I recently upgraded to the "official" WM6. It's bloated with AT&T stuff, but the Bluetooth stack is much better and HTC included a little program to make the close button actually work. I agree it should be part of WM, but at least HTC included it in the ROM. Is it not in the Mogul ROM? On my 8525, it is the last item in Settings==>System. It is called "X-Button." It is an HTC applet, not AT&T, so I assume HTC would put it on more than just one device.