Sunday, October 1, 2006
iPaq rx5900 series reviewed
Posted by Nurhisham Hussein in "HARDWARE" @ 10:00 PM
"Garmin, Navman, and others have each tried their hand at making a combination PDA/navigation device, but most of these products wound up feeling like PDAs with GPS functionality thrown in as a bonus. Now HP, in partnership with TomTom, is giving it a shot, and the result is the best hybrid yet."
Laptop Magazine has delivered the first review of HP's new iPaq line, and confirmed a few details of this new device. Bundled along with the iPaq at the $599 price tag for the US version are TomTom Navigator 6 (which isn't even available in retail yet), Teleatlas maps and Mobimate's Worldmate Standard Edition travel software. That makes the price a lot more palatable and represents pretty good value, though I wonder if it would be possible to get this device without the software bundle - some of us already have the necessary software and maps. You can get details of the other regional bundles in our previous post. All those big maps cut down on storage space though - out of the 2GB onboard ROM storage, only 450MB is available to the user 8O!
Laptop Magazine has delivered the first review of HP's new iPaq line, and confirmed a few details of this new device. Bundled along with the iPaq at the $599 price tag for the US version are TomTom Navigator 6 (which isn't even available in retail yet), Teleatlas maps and Mobimate's Worldmate Standard Edition travel software. That makes the price a lot more palatable and represents pretty good value, though I wonder if it would be possible to get this device without the software bundle - some of us already have the necessary software and maps. You can get details of the other regional bundles in our previous post. All those big maps cut down on storage space though - out of the 2GB onboard ROM storage, only 450MB is available to the user 8O!
