JAVAWIZARD said:i got mine on monday. the tts is horrible. the routing is ok(garmin is much better). a lot of poi. but it freeze twice on me already. cpu is fast and the screen is amazing i put tcpmp and playing 720x480 mp4. overall a very good buy for 199. hope HP will have fix for the freeze. i will use this as multimedia/backup gps unit.

HP does have an update for it if you register the unit with them it is shown as a choice.

if it plays mp3/video can't you route the output to your stereo?

The Ipaq 310 does have an output jack for car stereo input or headphones. I put a 2 gig card in 310, but someone could put almost 2 thousand songs on a 4 gig or a long mpeg movie. I downloaded a short sample movie and played it and the picture and sound were great. I think all the minor bugs will be fixed with the first firmware updated HP releases soon. When I took it out last night on a test run, the GPS performed very well and the detail in the maps of the beach area I was visiting was impressive. Next time it lowers to $199, you guys who were on the fence should give it a try, it's pretty cool.

Hey Javawizard, change the TTS from the woman's voice to the man. It greatly improves the TTS quality and also change the Dynamic speaker settings, so it gets louder at slower speeds.

searoute24 said:
Hey Javawizard, change the TTS from the woman's voice to the man. It greatly improves the TTS quality.

That makes sense.

I am very pleased with this GPS. I already have a Garmin i3 and Magellan 4100. iPaq 310 far outperforms in calculating alternate route if I take a different turn. Graphics are buttery flawless.

However, the GUI (interface) is not that intuitive and could be lot easier for use by say a regular non-tech person.

guzzar said:My 310 is not capturing the sat signal at all. I tried it at home and on the road but some how its trying and trying but not getting any signal. Anyone out there faced similar problem? everything else seems to be working fine, mp3, video, photo etc and, also I can create routes etc. The sat screen shows multiple red dots as well but the device seems to be not setting on one. I'm very disappointed, I called the tech support, and later applied the updates from their website as well but no avail . They suggest to return the item. Any help is appreciated.

Are you saying that your unit tracks the satellites and never establishes a fix? Sounds like you got a bad one. Mine acquires a signal very quickly, much quicker than my last unit (Mio 310x) which was no slouch.

That's a bummer. Have you tried hitting the reset button or something? Did you call Tech support at 1 (800) HP invent? Mine grabs a satellite signal pretty quickly after turning it on. There must be a reason yours is not picking up a signal. Keep playing with it.

I am still on fence on whether to return it or not, mine wont wake up after suspend without reset, from reading @gpspassion, people leave their unit as is without modding or adding program have fair the best; however some have report multiple reset and freeze for no reson ( I did), or no p/u of signal, the CPU is throttle down while charging; very, very negative since the battery life is 2-3 hours. Sounds like there is faulty hardware issue from bad design or lack of R&D on the road, not just software glitches, I have yet to try the dreaded content manager to update as some have reported to ruined the unit. When the unit is functional the GPS part is on the par with TomTom i had, MY advice for ppl waiting for the next price drop is wait for the major update from HP b4 buying this thing, save you some headache.

For ppl that got it for less than 2 bills (i got it for $170 after credit from Amazon card), its too tempting to keep it and hope HP will sort out the bugs b4 they work on an revision model. When all's well that 800x480screen along will make you forget the headache, till the next hiccups.

o no... backup to $359. shoulda pulled the trigger last week...

edit: and already floodin' eBay...

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just use this free website that can covert almost everything to MP3 or many other formats. Just upload the ebook, convert it to MP3 and then download it on a 2 GB SD card and plug it into the HP IPAQ 310. Here is the converting site: http://www.media-convert.com