Being the bit of a geek that I am, I always keep an eye out for what devices and phone people around me have when I travel. Today I popped into London for a brief time and on my travels I saw far more Windows Mobile devices in use than other technologies. Of particular note, I saw these people:

• a guy walking down the platform of Paddington Station browsing through something on his HP 6500 Pocket PC Phone Edition device - checking email? looking at the footie scores? finding directions? using the built in GPS to find out where he was? playing a cool game?
• on the tube a guy was checking his email or writing something on his Orange SPV c500 Smartphone - judging from the way he was flicking around the keypad he seemed to be well practised at text entry on the devices, and no he wasn't one of those 12 year olds who can text faster than they can think...
• A guy sat in Baker Street station using his XDA IIs - again, checking his email? using the Tube map application to find his way around? finding out the latest on George Best? chating with his MSN Messenger buddies?

I only saw one person using a Blackberry device on my travels, but the thing that really struck me was that these people I saw could have been doing anything on their Windows Mobile devices. When you see someone with a Blackberry you natrually think "Oh, they're just checking their e-mail" and when someone has a mobile out "they're just texting", but when I saw these people with Windows Mobile devices I was really curious about what they could be doing. The potential is huge!

I know, device spotting is geeky, but at least I haven't hit the nerdy point of walking up to someone and saying "Oo, that's a nice device, what're you doing on it...?" [:)]