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smathie
02-23-2004, 02:19 PM
I'm looking for an all in one pocket pc device. Here are the main
features I wish to find in order of importance:
Cell Phone
AOL Features such as AIM and AOL Email.
color display
GPS Navigation system (included or easily added)
Camera
thumb keypad (instead of or in addition to stylus)
Easily/cheaply add more storage space

Can I get this all in one device? I haven't had luck when shopping
for such a thing. Please let me know if you know of anything that can
handle this.

Thanks!

-Jason

dMores
02-23-2004, 03:09 PM
uhm, if you want a cellphone with a pocketpc combined, there currently is only one choice: the MDA/XDA (now in it's second generation called xdaII and mdaII).

there seem to be a bunch of pocket pc phone edition devices in development, with nifty keypad flips that cover part of the screen and let you dial and type sms like on a normal phone, but i haven't seen any realistic release dates.

you could also get an ipaq with a gsm-jacket. but this will be a 500g brick in you pocket, not sure you want that.

if it doesn't have to be a pocket pc, there are solutions from palm and symbian.
based on palmOS there are the TREOs, and sonyericsson has the p800/p900 running on symbian OS.
they're smaller than the pocketpc counterparts (especially the p900 is really really small in comparison) but lack one thing: activesync.
even if activesync is often dubbed activestink due to it's quirks, it's the best synchronization software available.