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HP iPAQ 310 now available

Dec 3, 2007 gps navigation

HP’s new dedicated GPS navigation from the new iPAQ 300 series is now for sale in the U.S. as HP iPAQ 310. We thought it would be called iPAQ 314 but I guess we were wrong. Possibly that may be the Euro version with a different set of maps.

HP iPAQ 310 sells for $400 on Amazon and NewEgg and both have it in stock ready to ship.

This navigation system has a good set of features but it also has some good components inside that slim body. First off it has one of the fastest processor we’ve come across as far as sat nav systems are concerned – buzzing at 600Mhz with its SiRF Titan dual core processor. It comes with 128MB of SDRAM and 2GB ROM for maps and POI’s. It has a long lasting removable and rechargeable 1700 mAh Lithium-ion battery too.

iPAQ 310 has a very nice screen measuring 4.3″ offering 800×480 resolution, speaker, an integrated microphone with echo cancellation, and a headphone jack. It has a mini USB port and microSD slot for sync and expansion and has bluetooth connectivity.

It will come with a few HP sofware installed such as the HP navigation software with text to speech guidance and web based trip planning, digital video player, digital music player, picture viewer, games, bluetooth hands free, calculator, world clock, contacts with Outlook sync.

You should read an HP iPAQ 310 review before you buy it:

The most interesting feature on the GPS navigator is the 3-D mapping software. For certain, select cities, maps don’t simply appear as lines in a 2-D space (not even a tilted, almost 3-D space). Instead, you get actual 3-D models of buildings filling the city space. We can’t imagine populating an entire globe’s worth of buildings, but in our hands-on experience mapping trips through London, we were quite impressed at the range of buildings represented, and the graphical prowess of the small navigator.

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