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"www.msmobiles.com" <nospam@msmobiles.com> wrote in message news:<0b5201c42598$58e49a90$a001280a@phx.gbl>...

> it is a fact that cheap tablet pc-s are reaching price
> range of top notch pocket pc-s and once having tablet pc
> one really doesn't need ms smartphone. so you must
> understand that it is not something maniacalish, but
> simply a matter of technological progress.

Hmm, didn't you recently crucify Ed Hansberry in your "review" of MS
MVPs for offering this same advice- (except in Ed's case he was
pairing a PPC to a non-MS bluetooth phone.)

Now you make essentially the same suggestion (better computing device
than Smartphone + bluetooth phone beats Smartphone.) When Ed did it
he was "anti-Microsoft." What does this make YOU?

> if you have tablet pc, then does it really make sense to
> have MS Smartphone?

If I have a bluetooth PPC does it make sense?

> why? wouldn't some simple bluetooth
> enable phone from sony ericsson be much better in this
> combo ?

I dunno. Ask Ed. When he said this you called him every name in the
book...

> what should I tell people who ask me: "what to buy:
> tablet pc with simple non-smartphone non-pda-phone
> cellphone, or regular notebook with pocket pc or
> smartphone?"

You should tell them you need to know more about their particular
requirements rather than tell them what works for you.

> times are changing and I am sure that more MS employees
> use tablet PC computers than MS powered cellphonez. I am
> SURE OF THIS. And trends are going in such direction that
> I really don't know whether in 5 years there will be
> windows mobile powered cellphones... PROVE me that I am
> wrong with some argumentation...

In 5 years, Smartphones will do vastly more than they do today. As
will tablets, notebooks and desktops. And in 5 years there will still
be computing power vs. size/weight vs. battery life compromises to me
made leaving room for all platforms, just like today.

> ...instead of labeling
> me "maniac"!

Considering you're now on Ed's side, I'd add "schizophrenic" to
maniac, myself...