Best picture of the campaign....

[DannyCox]

I recently bought a new cellphone, and it's getting hard to buy just a basic one! I need a cellphone that works, and makes and receives calls, nothing more. I don't "text" (just a silly waste of time when a quick call is so much faster), and I don't need to browse the Internet, or take pictures and videos. I have other things that are just so much better at doing an of that than even the best Smart phone. I've found that the higher someone is in a company, the less they go for gimmicks. Very few CEO's of large companies carry around anything more than a simple cellphone. As Chris mentioned, at that level, you have people to do the menial tasks for you.

Keep in mind that someone like Obama, on the campaign trail, probably has a large number of cellphones, all being carried by aides. Different numbers for different people.

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by DannyCox

Very few CEO's of large companies carry around anything more than a simple cellphone. As Chris mentioned, at that level, you have people to do the menial tasks for you.

Based on my own personal experiences and observations, I disagree. But granted the CEO's and senior management types that I know are almost all associated with tech industry on form or another, so that may skew the results.

If I were taking a SWAG just based on observation, I'd say blackberry is the cellphone of choice among Fortune 500 senior management types. Typically they tote it mainly because of the Blackberry Enterprise Server. The EA proxies their calendar and keeps it current, they use the Blackberry to stay up to date with where they need to be, answer the occasional hot email, have the entire corporate phone book at their fingertips....oh and maybe even make a phone call or two.

What I've also seen is a fair amount of CEO's that tote a phone and a data device. That gives you a lot of flexibility such as being able to look up things easily while chatting on the phone.

And I know a handful that tote two phones, one business and one personal. This lets them leave the "leash" at the office when they want to be off duty. The curse of having one cellphone for both work and personal is when you take vacation, you either have to detach from friends as well as the office or endure the sucker ringing all day long just as if you were working.