Would a smartphone do this for me?

footman · 1 May 2006 at 17:55

I have an ordinary mobile phone (6310i) on a contract and also a Dell Axim x50v.
I use the Axim for sync. with Outlook, GPS applications such as Tomtom and memorymap. Im getting tired of carting both around and although I dont know much about smartphones I'm wondering if I can combine all these functions in 1 device.

I would also like web access, is this possible on a smartphone with an ordinary vodafone sim or would I have to go with "3"?
thanks for looking

footman · 1 May 2006 at 18:02

FishFluff said:
Yes to all of the above. A lot of the newer smartphones are running Windows Mobile 5.0, which is what the latest PDAs are running. I've got an XDA Mini S which quite happily syncs with Outlook and will just about run Tomtom.

thanks, Im interested that you say"just about runs Tomtom", what do you mean?

footman · 1 May 2006 at 18:24

all this stuff is taken on board but its the PDA stuff I really want to keep.

footman · 2 May 2006 at 21:02

Tomsk said:
You could consider the Mitac Mio A701 or Eten G500, both have GPS built in, but no wi-fi. They also have faster cpus than the JaMin (et al) @ ~400Mhz

Also the HP HW 6910/6915 and Fujitsu Loox T810/830 (available from July) which have GPS, wifi & 400mhz cpus.

these all-in-one devices look very good, but I feel its a bit like putting all your eggs in 1 basket, if 1 module fails then youve lost all the other functions until its fixed.