I have a new toy.  Actually have it for a couple of weeks now.  I have a HP iPAQ hw6960 Pocket PC running Windows Mobile 5.0.

Now this is my first with a smartphone and I have been loving it.  After enabling unlimited GPRS through Hutch, I have been using the phone so much that I am having to charge the phone up every single day.  (And yes, the battery actually lasts much longer for normal usage).

I am sure this is the phase of initial excitement and I will get back to saner usage.  But at the moment, I really wonder how I lived without all of this all these days.

Email at my fingertips, so much so, that I spent a day when I was traveling responding to all my email through phone.  Other than my corporate email, I also manage Hotmail through the phone now.  GMail seems to have some problems - even after configuring POP3, the email doesn't get automatically pushed to my phone, I have to manually sync it up.

The plethora of Windows Mobile applications that we have access to our Intranet has me all charged up. I can use my phone as a wireless presenter to present a PPT on my laptop - when being able to advance slides through the mobile and also view speaker notes on the mobile. That's simply awesome.

Today, I just got to Jani's blog on recent trends on the TV and Music and learnt about Mundu Radio - which I think is a really cool application.  If you know of any other killer apps, do leave me a comment.

I have also been browsing a lot with Pocket IE.  I was amazed at how most sites render just fine on Pocket IE, including all the ThinkingMS blogs.  However, interfaces designed specifically for the mobile require less scrolling and make it much easier.  Windows Live has a whole suite of mobile interfaces for the various services at http://mobile.live.com

I was just emphasizing the need of having a mobile-version of websites to a customer recently. The day isn't far when computing will move more to devices than the PC.  

Microsoft just announced Windows Mobile 6.0 and I can't wait till our IT department announces a supported build that I can upgrade my phone to.  The interface is slicker and a lot of nags I have with getting used to the new form factor are made simpler and more intuitive in WM 6.0.