I believe the correct terminology for what I have now is a Pocket PC. I know that this isn’t entirely accurate, but the difference I see from a Smartphone to a Pocket PC is that the Pocket PC has a touch screen, but there are apparently Smartphones that have touch screens as well, so I’m not very clear on the distinction. What ever you want to call it I am still delving into all I can do with it.

I’ve already installed two software packages that will utilize the GPS. One is more suited for turn by turn directions. I will start using that immediately and some day I might never have to worry about getting lost. The other one is for the track log I want to make when I take the bike rides.

Then Jo got involved and now I have about a dozen more programs. I have tinytwitter, so that I can twitter from my phone more easily. If you aren’t already you should really check it out, it’s kind of a micro blog and IM rolled into one.

I have the Mundu messenger, and if I opt to pay the $11 I can have that for longer than five days. It works on both data and SMS, so if I ever decide that I don’t want to carry the data plan any longer I can switch to the unlimited SMS and still use this program.

I have a program that located where I am using the GPS and then shows the constellations I should be able to see from where I am.

I installed Opera and the flash plugin for that, because apparently it makes browsing a lot easier than using mobile IE.

There is so much to play with and I haven’t even had a chance to really delve into it all and play with it yet.