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| Hewlett-Packard iPAQ 310 Bluetooth 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator | 
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| Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Category: CE
List Price: $449.00
Buy New: $238.89
You Save: $210.11 (47%)
New (7) Used (5) Refurbished (3) from $179.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  95 reviews
Sales Rank: 5243
Platform: Pda
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 800 x 480
Display Size: 4.3
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 3.4 x 4.3 x 0.7
MPN: 310
Model: 310
UPC: 883585309559
EAN: 0883585309559
ASIN: B000VRYLU2
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Stellar GPS from legendary Hewlett-Packard March 7, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Pros: The graphic is second to none. Beauty and clarity in 4.3 inch of goodness. Route recalculation is fast and easy to understand. All the readings/words are listed in cyan color border on top and bottom, which is just gorgeous. I also like how HP decides to give you a pen stick for free so we don't have to make smudges all over the screen with dirty fingers.
Cons: Kinda hard to create a new destination. The navigation path is not as smooth as Garmin's, but once you get the hang of it, it should be okay. It takes a good 3-5 mins to connect with the satellite. That's the worse part of this GPS.
Great features at a great price. March 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This GPS is packed with features. It is priced at a GPS that does half as much. The GPS is fast and maybe too fast. It tries to get you back to your route a little bit, but you just keep driving and it recalcs super fast. The bluetooth works flawlessly and is loud enough in a typical car. If your car is really loud - then obviously you might have problems. We liked the UK voices best. The text to speech isn't perfect - but c'mon - how good do you want it?
The display is amazing and it locks on fast.
 Not bad, but not too bad. February 26, 2008
I've had this for a month now. I had a chance to take it to New Orleans LA last week, and it could not find the air port (MSY). It said the desitination is in unreachable area, and it took me to middle of nowhere and deadend road. Maybe the airport was under water during Karina :) But it did pretty good job around Dallas metro area with accuracy. Maybe it is the map it uses, NAVITEQ I believe. And, it does have a few things to be improved; design and functionality wise. Few things from my experience.
- I don't like the location of power button as few folks mentioned. It can easily turned by slight touch and pressure even when it is in the case. It should be relocated to top end corner as Garmin has.
- I found the satellite reception to be pretty good, even better than my Nuvi 360. Maybe I am blessed with good GPS calibration one.
- The screen is awesome. With some searching on the web, found the way to kinda unlock the PDA side of the device (It is WIndow CE based, so). I was able to watch some movies on it after shrinking the move to smaller size/resolution, and it is fantastic. With 8GB SD (since it supports SDHC), I could store more than a dozen movies available to watch.
- I found the windshield mount to be pretty good, even better than Garmin ones. It held pretty strong during bumpy ride, and doesn't look like it will "glue" to the windshield like my Garmin mount did.
- Yes, the sound of the device is pretty low. But there is a way to increase the volume if you find a right forum. But it takes some general gizmo knowledge, and probably not for everyone. Wish it had a FM transmitter built-in.
- Bluetooth....well... it works, but even after authenticating the ipaq in my phone, it does not "sync" automatically when it is in proximity like my Nuvi 360 does. I have to manually turn it on everytime, so it is not that useful.
- The 3D thing in some city (40 cities mapped so far I believe) is nice. New Orlease was one of them, and in downtown, it does look quite nice even though it does not look that fance like the picture posted.
- I find it quite annoying the sound and backlight setting is not "remembered". When I turn it on, I have to adjust the backlight seeting. And, it did crash/freeze a few time.
- The turn instructions can be better. If I decided to keep going instead of turning as it recommeds, it should recalculate adter may be 1 warning of turn back. It does say 2-3 times to turn back before route recalculation, which can be annoying. Probably my fault. I shouldn't have turn it on when I know exactly where I am going :) BTW, the route recalculation is pretty fast I would say.
IMHO, if it is cheap enough, and have a courage to "play" with it to unlock some of the stuff, get it. If it is just a navigator you want, Garmin is pretty cheap nowadays. Since most of the people will not using it for everyday, it sounds not bad, but if it can not find your destination when you really need it to, well...
 TTS is Horible February 26, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The TTS is horrible; the sound is muffled and the annunciation is substandard. The non-TTS voice of Amy seems very good if you do not care about TTS. The route is not completly correct. There are times when it seems to be using some wrong map; even though the road/freeway has been around for over 10 years. It is a good unit if the TTS can be upgraded.
Good product with a few shortcomings February 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
1. Sound (voice) is too weak. A dinamic condition is weakening sound only, but it is not able to increase it. A volume is not enough if a radio is turned off, and almost nonaudible when radio is turned on.
2. Accuracy is not the best property of this device.
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