Two weeks ago, I was waiting for my rental car at the Alamo car lot at National Airport in DC. Also waiting for a car was a US Navy Rear Admiral (two stars). I was rather surprised to see that an Admiral had to wait for a car and jokingly asking him why the Pentagon didn’t send a one for him. As we were talking story, I pulled out my Newton to check my schedule. Upon seeing this, the admiral smiled and said “Is that a Newton? I haven’t seen one of those for years.” He went on to tell me that the Navy had a large program to evaluate the newton for use on ships and subs to facilitate communications and wireless access to the ships’ central computers from anywhere onboard. He apparently was in charge of a major part of this project. He told me that the Navy was very pleased with the Newt and made plans to issue 2100s to all shipboard personnel Petty Officer and above but canceled the deployment when Jobs canned the Newton. Now the Navy has issued Palms to most of their personnel but the Admiral told me they are not satisfied with the capabilities compared to the Newton.