I bought my wife an HP "Travel Companion" a few weeks back. She wanted it mainly for Office Mobile. She runs a dialysis clinic and having mobile access to spreadsheets and the like is very useful to her.

Anywho, since we live in the sticks, we had to drive about 40 miles or so to get it, and as we're leaving the city we get slammed by a blizzard the likes of which I haven't seen in years. Visibility was pretty much nil. We were moving about 30 mph on US 88. All that's keeping us on the road are the ditch markers poking up out of the mounting snow. My wife's driving and I've got my head out the window trying to keep track of the markers. The drive is normally about an hour, we were probably looking at close to three to get home, if we in fact made it that far.

Suddenly our son, who's in the back seat playing with the new HP says "Hey I found a map...it's showing me where we are...and it's moving."

My wife and I had no idea the device had GPS, in this case "TomTom." Something like that wasn't important to us, or so we thought. Suddenly though, it just became *extremely* important.

It still took a dog's age to get home, but I'm quite convinced TomTom played a vital role in getting us there. As we drove, I could tell my wife about every turn on the road before we got to it. Maybe it didn't save our lives, but, hell, maybe it did.

The device has a lot of other features too...Windows Mobile, wireless internet connectivity and Bluetooth, full-motion video capable. However, it's not a phone--kind of a big missing peice for a pricey little gadget, but I'm not complaining. Any more than usual, that is.