Windows Phone Thoughts: Where's the Photo Field?

There are two technologies starting to come together that made me wonder why Outlook doesn't have a field for a contact photo. We have the proliferation of digital cameras (both stand alone and integrated into phones and devices) and PDA/Smartphones that sync with Outlook. On the Pocket PC Phone Edition devices we have third-party software that will bring up a picture, but it needs to be a specific size and format and as far as I know it's not tightly integrated with Outlook. I know that in Outlook you can paste an image into the notes field, but if memory serves that last time I tried that the result was very ugly on the Pocket PC.

What we need is an Outlook field for a photo of the contact. It should have a corresponding field on the Pocket PC, and in both locations it should be integrated cleanly into the user interface. I'm obviously not the first person to think of this, so I have to wonder why Microsoft hasn't added this feature to Outlook yet. Poor results from a focus group? Perhaps people don't want to share photos of themselves with others? Does anyone beta testing the next-gen Outlook if Microsoft finally added this in?

I also can't figure out why Outlook email messages don't have a hotkey/button/menu option for "Insert V-Card". I know you can drag/drop from your contacts folder, or attach one to every message by default, but wouldn't a button be nice? Or is there a better way that I don't know about?

UPDATE: Look at that! Even before I post this thought, I found a partial answer. It seems that Outlook 11 will have a "show picture in contact form" option. Now the question is, will this be supported in the next Pocket PC OS... :?