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

Nah, that was lost when specs to file formats and locking behaviour were considered proprieatary (db IV) and not put into OS/public domain (MS, Clipper and everybody else in the early nineties - wanting to beat the competition totallly to create single culture hegemony).

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>>>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.
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>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.

A phone, being prone to loss and theft, is really a top contender for "Cloud storage makes sense" from a security POV. Still the gall to ban MicroSDHC from the device by Apple is copied by MP7 and drops such devices many places on my personal pref list. What if I stay on a mountain for a few days in a ski lodge ? Lousy to no connection sometimes, f***ing expensive due to roaming tariffs (you need to access "your" cloudspace - 16GB mSDHC is a bargain very soon.

regards

thomas