It is running the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, which is famous for not being aware of finger multi-touch, instead requiring an old fashioned stylus pen to operate. Microsoft has promised a new operating system called Windows Mobile 7, which will apparently be fully multi-touch. But WM7 is running late, like all Microsoft products do.

Back to LG. The eXpo has no internal slot to hold a stylus pen. It looks like the designers were expecting to get WM7, which doesn't need a stylus. But instead they got the older WM6.5, possibly because WM7 is late. The designers have added a stylus as an afterthought, as an external device that can't be housed internally in the eXpo.

Instead, the LG eXpo's stylus comes in a lipstick container, separate to the phone. You must carry it separately to the phone, in your pocket or in a handbag. I can't help thinking that Microsoft's lateness with the next Windows Mobile 7 OS has caused this curious feature.

It is running the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, which is famous for not being aware of finger multi-touch, instead requiring an old fashioned stylus pen to operate. Microsoft has promised a new operating system called Windows Mobile 7, which will apparently be fully multi-touch. But WM7 is running late, like all Microsoft products do.

Back to LG. The eXpo has no internal slot to hold a stylus pen. It looks like the designers were expecting to get WM7, which doesn't need a stylus. But instead they got the older WM6.5, possibly because WM7 is late. The designers have added a stylus as an afterthought, as an external device that can't be housed internally in the eXpo.

Instead, the LG eXpo's stylus comes in a lipstick container, separate to the phone. You must carry it separately to the phone, in your pocket or in a handbag. I can't help thinking that Microsoft's lateness with the next Windows Mobile 7 OS has caused this curious feature.