El Reg has spotted the forthcoming Mio GPS smart phone - though it's actually a Windows Mobile Pocket PC. Pretty decent spec and I have long craved a device with built in GPS to use on my favourite programs (CoPilot) with. It raises the question of what is the ideal device and of course it's one that is tiny, has amazing battery life, a large amount of memory, wifi, Bluetooth, 3G and GPS. It doesn't exist (yet!). I have a lot of devices and still use my C500 Smartphone as my primary device but do love the iMate Jam for it's looks, size and features. eXpansys just announced they will soon ship the iMate k-jam which is roughly the same dimensions though a bit thicker to accommodate a slide out keyboard!! The have also announced they'll soon have the iMate Jasjar available too - basically the Universal 3G Pocket PC that Jason has been blogging about a lot lately.
it's going to be an intersting few months on the device front as some very cool products come to market both via mobile operators and independently via folks like eXpansys. I'll come back to the topic of my favourite device and favourite applications soon...but now I'm off to say goodbye to "our Marie" - a longstanding Windows Mobile legend in Microsoft.