When Bill Gates said at Monday's Window Treo press conference that he has been using his new Windows powered Treo mobile phone, it was rather obvious that he was lying. The Microsoft chairman was playing around with the device all the time during the event, making it rather obvious that this was the first time that he touched a Windows Treo.

Gates certainly didn't bother to take "his" new mobile phone home with him. On Tuesday at a keynote presentation at the CTIA Wireless tradeshow in San Francisco, Suzan DelBene, corporate vice president of marketing for Microsoft's mobile and embedded devices division, held up the device.

Her keynote was extremely boring and uneventful. You know for sure that a company isn't even trying to say something new or interesting when they send a marketing manager to deliver a keynote, but that's besides the point.

Back to Gates' Treo:  DelBene even said the device she was holding up was the same that Gates had held the day before. She went on to say that they had been forced to disable its network connection because people kept calling the number and sending text messages after Palm had displayed the phone number on Monday.

Gates is one of those people that is important enough not to own a mobile phone (his assistant can carry one for him), although he is enough of a geek to carry one anyway.

But for the sake of honesty, don't claim that you have been using a device just because it sounds nice at a press conference, Mr. Gates. It makes me think what other things that you said were made up.

Gates om Monday - playing with his Treo.

DelBene on Tuesday holding the same phone

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