A personal information management system stores associations between a user and the user's mobile hand held electronic and communication devices. The system receives input indicating the presence of the user and bonds with the mobile hand held devices associated with the identified user to the exclusion of other devices. Once the system has bonded to the user's mobile hand held devices, the user may access data stored on and control functions of the various hand held devices through a single common interface, the system may be used to place and receive cellular telephone calls, send and receive text messages, and record and play back audio messages.