>>Have not looked into it, but this is probably just a security add on

Yes, it is. It's one reason why the "database" in Android isn't as accessible as it needs to be. Also the documentation is pitched at an advanced level in contrast with the wider exposure and accessibility that has been promoted over the past decade. We're in a time warp. ;-)

>>SqLite is on its way to become the esperanto for local access on many devices I had hoped dbf to stay...

Yep, it's all over the place. But so is dbf and since add-on tools are indicated whatever database you use, I wouldn't be surprised to see dbf as an option. Not that it matters as long as the manipulation and syncing tools are there.

>>Having no access to the filesystem (as mentioned in a test) in WM7 puts it even lower than the IPhone -
going after gamers might be workable that way, but that's not me.
I want an intelligent device I can search without a PC and perhaps even without internet and use for DOC's, PDF etc., a mobile datastore and perhaps some songs.

Sure enough. The reasons these devices are selling so well include geek enthusiasm, vendor fan-boyism and subsidies from phone providers. If these things weren't also phones with "wow" factor when you look at them (the WP is a good example, plenty of wow when you see those tiles move) they'd be much harder to shift IMHO.

>>Bring on Vfp>3: these babes have the power of machines at the very end of last century: Higher clocks but less detailed caches and instruction pipelines. Early Pentium/K6: can run NT or Unix...

Either would do, though something even more accessible like Access might be even better. It will happen: Google has been working for a while on new tools to allow anybody to create their own business apps, which definitely will need an accessible database with automated syncing. I said FP because it was created by a private company before MS bought it, so there is no reason why we shouldn't expect another small company to come up with another displacing technology. Especially since the major vendors seem determined to retrace their steps since 1990 wrt data on this new platform.