Pocket PC search commences.  In conjunction with my start of some new development,  I have also been charged with finding a Pocket PC that will suit me (and preferrably,  not become obsolete too quickly). 

I have always fancied the Phone/PDA combo,  and certainly want to be able to run Pocket PC OS (since our shop is prettymuch a Microsoft dominated shop —eg. Outlook, Windows 2000 ssoon to be 2003 — and I will be introducing them to some .Net based stuff soon as well)

Anyway,  I thought my Weblog here would be a good place to open up some possible input from some readers out there,  and suggestions for good resources as well as recommendations about Pocket PC/Phone combos.   Some guy at Best Buy told me that there’s a lot of pause going on in the industry in anticipation of SmartPhone OS stuff,  and so I looked up some of that.  I saw someone last week with the Samsung SGH-i700,  which from what I read is available via Verizon (although their website didn’t know that mwhen I followed the link that said “Buy it through Verizon”).  Anyway,  I’m just starting to sort through this.  I also wonder sometimes about the advice from BestBuy employees (one in the TV department told me that HDTV was not avilable over the air until 2005,  and then within that same week a Nashville station announced it’s now broadcasting it. 3 Cincinnati stations have for a couple of years.  The FCC already gave an ultimatum not too long ago that stations have to make it available in the next year or so (or something soon). 

Anyway,  any comments, recommendations welcome