Phone + GPS (update) November 21, 2007

It seems that I am not the kind of blogger that posts every day… It isn’t even once a month… But I do like to tell about the things that keep me busy so here is a little update on my quest for a GPS enabled phone.

I have found a new phone and have bought it two weeks ago. Although I wanted a phone with built in GPS functionality I have chosen the HTC Touch. The reason for this is that it is really compact while its size doesn’t compromise the screen-size. I still have to find a suitable GPS receiver for it but I am looking. Perhaps I will even blog about it soon (if I can find some spare time).

My goal is having a nice GPS receiver which is small, has a long battery-life, can do its work from the inside of a pocket or bag and communicates through BlueTooth. It would be a plus if the receiver logs its position.

To make use of the GPS receiver and my phone for Geocaching purposes I need some applications which are Windows Mobile 6 professional compatible and give me the tools I need. The minimum is:

1. Has a compass which points to the cache location (as the crow flies)
2. Tells me the distance to the cache
3. Enables me to enter the data I get from Geocaching.com (manual as I am not a premium user (yet))
4. Enables me to log my visits and finds.

If the app can also draw a map (Garmin mapsource style) and draw my position and track-log, it would be the perfect geocache app for PocketPC. If you know any, please let me know by writing a comment.