Windows Phone Thoughts: Is Your Handheld Powerful Enough To Allow You To Leave The Laptop At The Office?

"As handheld devices become more like full-fledged computers in their own right, the question of whether business travelers might be better served by leaving their laptops at home is again being asked by IT managers and end users alike. But that still appears to be more of a future goal than a current reality."

Is your handheld powerful enough to allow you to leave your laptop behind? For entertainment, I can listen to music (though I prefer my MP3 player to Windows Media Player), watch movies, read books and play games. For productivity email is the killer application allowing me to stay in touch. I can open and view most spreadsheets and documents to get a sense of what they contain, but when it comes to viewing or editing a large spreadsheet, my handheld falls a bit short. I also cannot manage my personal finances on my device, and being a user of MS Access for a number of things, my handheld is out for that task.

For me, it would depend on the trip. I have a vacation coming up and am planning on getting absolutely zero work done, so the laptop may stay behind, but for all but the shortest business trips, I'm afraid the laptop goes in the bag. How about you?