As noted in another thread, I recently moved from South Carolina to Arizona. I'm looking at doing a lot of traveling over the next few months as well, so I thought it'd be fun to put together a real-time tracking system on my blog based on the google maps api.

I was able to do so, and tried it out during out cross-country move. It worked great and we had a good time with everyone who followed us during out trip. We'd occasionally have people call and ask if the restaurant were currently at was nice, etc...

However, the biggest pain in the butt for the whole setup was that I had to have the laptop on and plugged into the GPS and my Treo. This became a pain, because the Treo would occasionally lose its connection and then I'd have to redial. Plus someone was always sitting with the laptop on their lap, since there wasn't room to put it anywhere else. Then there was the spaghetti-like nest of power cords and the three-way power splitter, etc. Something would inevitably jiggle loose and the laptop battery would run dry. Anyway...it was a real hassle trying to keep it up and running.

I'd like to continue using it on future trips, but I thought I'd pick you guy's brains on an alternative device that can handle all three functions:

1. Mobile phone that is internet capable (preferably 3G and will support a tethered or bluetooth laptop connection)

2. Has built-in GPS

3. PocketPC or Windows Mobile that can run GPSGate client.