Nice to see that some gets it and that I am not the only one interested.

If there is not such way to silence the ringer with a hardware button, making a button do that will be a good project for someone. A lot of cases have an opening at the bottom of the case. That would make the power button easily accessible. I decided to purchase this case for now, just to have something when the device arrives.

http://www.amazon.com/Premium-Execut...7685190&sr=8-1

It seems that placing the device upside down will allow me easy access to the power button and to the phone jack.

If the power button cannot be used for this, maybe someone can make the button next to the phone jack do this. I will have to get another case, but that is OK.