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| HP iPAQ rx5915 Travel Companion | 
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| Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Category: CE
List Price: $599.00
Buy New: $409.00
You Save: $190.00 (32%)
New (15) Used (11) Refurbished (1)
Avg. Customer Rating:  154 reviews
Sales Rank: 9940
Platform: Windows
Color: GRAY
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: Yes
CPU Speed: 400
Battery Type: Lithium Ion
Native Resolution: 240 x 320
Modem: None
Free Memory Slots: SD slot
Display Size: 3.5
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 5 x 3 x 1
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: FA811AA#ABA
Model: FA811AA#ABA
UPC: 882780587649
EAN: 0882780587649
ASIN: B000JET9EA
Release Date: November 13, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
iPAQ 5915 January 20, 2008
the iPAQ works fine - I did have a difficult time networking it to my home network - I found the instructions to be a bit lame. Works great now, looks good and am enjoying it. I purchased this mainly for the pda/pocket pc/gps features. I did a lot of research prior to purchasing and found this one to be the most efficient, compact on the market.
Works great January 18, 2008
The GPS had no trouble locating the satellites for navigation the first time I used it. It also had no trouble finding my in home network for internet access. I would recommend this GPS/PDA to friends and family.
 Think twice before buying this January 12, 2008
I live in Hawaii and the GPS function is terrible. It takes forever to get a satellite fix. I don't understand it as my Magellan GPS unit will normally get the first fix within a minute or so. The Tomtom navigator software is not very functional in Hawaii. A lot of the addresses here have numbers combined with dashes (e.g. 99-251 Kamehameha Hwy) but the software doesn't recognize that and won't let you insert dashes. Hence, all the addresses on Kamehameha Hwy become the address 99.
There is also a problem with Wlan connectivity. It has a hard time keeping a connection, even though I'm sitting just 7 feet away from my router.
The idea is a good one but the execution is poor. Not recommended!
Nice paperweight January 8, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Short version: I just spent roughly $500 for an elegantly designed high-tech paperweight. Further it can provide hours of entertainment on the support lines of both Tomtom and HP.
The unit itself is pretty good as long as you never leave the country. However, I need it for both US and Europe. What the advertising copy doesn't tell you is that this IPAQ "Travel Companion" does NOT run the standard Tomtom Navigator 6 software, and the HP version it runs does not address the storage card, so although you can "install" maps to the card, the software never finds it.
This is a known issue to both Tomtom and HP, unfortunately they are geared to closing the issue, not in solving your problems. As far as Tomtom is concerned it's an HP issue, good-bye. And HP says that it's a Tomtom problem, and their pricy advice: go to Tomtom and buy the retail version of Navigator 6, good-bye again.
And since I don't have the packaging anymore I can't send it back to Amazon. It does however keep the papers from blowing about my desk.
 Pretty good January 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a technophobe and don't have the time or patience to read the instructions and figure out how its all meant to work. I bought this unit purely because it had wifi and a word editor, so that I could travel without a laptop and still have web access and be able to do work. For the most part its pretty good and intuitive for anyone who is familiar with windows, but there are a few issues.
The first issue, and the most frustrating, is the same as I have when connecting to any new wireless network with a windows device- I wish to god there was a button that said "Look for the internet. Connect to it if its there or tell me if its not so I can get on with my life". There is no such button so if, for example, you are in a hotel with wifi and want to connect you get a list of available networks with meaningless names. When you click on any one of them you are taken to a screen full of options that make no sense to me. It took me ages to discover that you have to hold the stylus on the network to get a "connect" option for that network. Once you click that, the status will usually change to "connecting". It may stay like that and get no further, or randomly change back to "available", or switch to another network on the list and try to connect to that. Sometimes it will say "connected", but no hi-fives yet, as being "connected" doesn't mean you can access the internet. Sometimes you can be connected, with excellent signal strength, and still get one of those windows error messages when you start the web browser. If you do get on the internet the connection will drop about once every 5 minutes. Annoyingly I have not been able to work out how to go back to the network settings to reconnect without shutting down the internet browser so you have to start all over again.
The second issue is with scrolling in web pages. I'm getting better at it now but for the first few days whenever I pressed the scroll bar with the stylus I instead got a pop-up list.
The unit also locks up when I change the clock, and sometimes the Quicklaunch button doesn't work. Also the internal memory seems to be very low. I tried putting the card from my camera into the device and transferring photos to the "my photos" folder. It only transferred 15 photos before declaring a critical memory shortage and refusing to work at all until I put a blank memory card in.
Also the GPS does not "work out of the box" to the extent I had expected. I bought this in the States on my way to Europe. Being called the travel mate, and given that Europe is a fairly significant continent, I assumed it would be good for navigation there. Wrong. It couldn't even find a satellite and there were no Europe maps anyway. Hours spent attempting to download or purchase maps using the Tom Tom software were unsuccessful.
Finally, being a windows device, this thing is determined to take over your life from appointments to contacts to email, and is obsessed with providing weather forecasts for various cities all over the world, updated at regular intervals. Like everybody else I have a work and a home computer and a cell phone which all have different sets of contacts and appointment information. This seems to annoy the handheld. I also installed the HP photo software on my home PC and its now trying to take over my laptop.
I'm sure many of the above are user issues rather than faults but people like me who just want a couple of basic functions to work intuitively will find that this device comes with all the usual windows irritations. On the plus side the word and excel programs are excellent, the handwriting recognition works well and the internet browser, when it connects, gives you the real internet.
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