Mobile internet

I've just bought an Ipaq Travel Companion rx5965 which is a PDA with GPS, wireless and bluetooth. No phone or camera, but it does have an SD card slot so if your camera uses SD, you could copy from the card to the PDA.

I bought it for a 7 week trip in Europe mostly for the GPS (TomTom software) for when we are driving around and I hope the other features will be of use. eg. I hope to hook into the car audio via bluetooth to play MP3s while driving.

I'm not sure how often we'll get wireless access, hopefully often enough to get and send emails, maybe use Skype.

Our camera takes CF cards, so unless I get some other device (or upgrade the camera), I can't easily transfer photos.

#10. How do you like youir Ipaq?

The ipaq is a neat toy. Haven't really used it in anger yet. I can give a better answer after our trip.

So far, I should be able to:

use it as a gps in the car with tomtom and off-road with oziexplorer
play music on it
get on the net
use Skype (tested it and it works)
listen to internet radio
view photos and videos off my camera
have photos of home to show the relatives
update a blog
currency conversions
world-wide weather and time
store contact information
store phrase books

Just hope we don't lose it!

Check out this blog on the N 95 GPS capability

Cheers,
Velu

wildman1024; you wrote us that you want to do whatever you like at any time with gsm or wifi, with a phone or a pda not a laptop. then you are talking about "information" you want to read and store for later.

does "information" means accessing websites? you can use a phone to look at a website but you would not really like to do that for a long time on a 4x4 centimetres display?!?

maybe you can split things up as i would do:

blackberry is good for receiving emails
laptop is good for the display of websites
phone is good to talk to others or to do very simple internet (browsing) tasks and/or to send text messages

but all at once at any time any place. it sounds tremendeous, your post. whenever you find an answer or right device, you let me know!

cheers

'super

Been shopping for a similar thing. Settled in the Nokia E61i, it seems to have everything I need:

- QWERTY keyboard
- Wifi
- 3G
- quad-band GSM
- SIP client for free VoIP phone calls
- plays streaming audio
- highly-regarded web browser
- IMAP mail
- view and edit Word/Excel/PowerPoint files
- a couple of good SSH clients.

US$390 in Singapore, bopping back down there to pick one up next month.