... but when it comes to establishing power within the organisation, nothing says "I'm the dog's bollocks" like an iPhone.

<tounge in cheek>

Nothing says "I'm a twat that can't use a normal phone UI, so i've brown tounged my way into persuding my IT department into letting me have a phone with bugger all features for us simple folk" like an iPhone!

;-p

</tounge in cheek>

So the IT department said no to your iphone request did they?

Sour puss!

Gah ! Am I really supposed to think about all these things when I choose a mobile phone ? Heaven help me, I thought I just needed to choose a phone, it turns out that they want me to choose a mobile office.

Well I won't do that. For me a phone is for phoning. My email and Internet needs I quarantine to my PC, thank you very much - the last thing I want is to be pestered everywhere I am by email. I'm not a crackberry addict.

I choose my phone for connectivity to the network and battery life, nothing more. A phone is a phone. I don't need it for anything else than phoning. For the rest, I have other, reliable tools.

management got crackberries, field service got windows mobile pda-s and "they need voice only" users got sony-ericsson walkman phones. :-)