The price of the Hewlett Packard iPAQ 310 Bluetooth 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator has dropped to $199.99 on Amazon.com. No sales tax in most states and free shipping.
The thread in GPSpassion (Forum Link) suggests that HP has made recent firmware upgrades that have improved the sound. Also, members claim that the CNET reviewer probably had the automatic rerouting feature set off, and hence the poor score.
The iPaq 310 was pretty awful at route recalculations, and the voice prompts weren't very loud or clear.
The bottom line: Despite a sleek design and an attractive feature set, the HP iPaq 310 Travel Companion shows an ugly side with inaccurate route recalculations and poor voice directions that makes us say pass for now.
japand
Member
posted: Dec. 28, 2007 @ 7:21a
With the poor reviews and significant price drop, its makes you wonder just how poor this unit performs. (IMHO)
Thanks for the heads up. I just applied for price adjustment.
PNP
Thrifty Member
posted: Dec. 28, 2007 @ 10:44a
Need to do some more research before deciding for certain, but I went ahead and jumped to get in on the price. With slow-boat shipping I'll have time to decide whether or not to refuse the package. I read a bit on gpspassion and it looks like this is a great deal. Hopefully some hacks or upgrades will inspire me to keep. While the description doesn't say, this unit has 12 million poi.
fentonpcrackshell
Senior Member - 3K
posted: Dec. 28, 2007 @ 10:52a
rigor said: If it had WIFI i'd be on it like stink; the last gen ipaq travel assistant had it. bad choice to remove it.yeah, too bad. do you know if you can tether to a wm5/6 device's internet over the bluetooth?
mantalcore
Senior Member
posted: Dec. 28, 2007 @ 11:13a
Wow...
Just bought the Nuvi 650 and now this gets posted. Too late for returns, DAMN IT!
PNP said: Need to do some more research before deciding for certain, but I went ahead and jumped to get in on the price. With slow-boat shipping I'll have time to decide whether or not to refuse the package. I read a bit on gpspassion and it looks like this is a great deal. Hopefully some hacks or upgrades will inspire me to keep. While the description doesn't say, this unit has 12 million poi.
Thanks for increasing prices for everyone by using the shipping service to window shop! Decide if you want it BEFORE it ships, not during.
xfeng
Happy Member
posted: Dec. 28, 2007 @ 12:49p
I pulled the trigger too.
PNP
Thrifty Member
posted: Dec. 28, 2007 @ 12:53p
tooloud said: Thanks for increasing prices for everyone by using the shipping service to window shop! Decide if you want it BEFORE it ships, not during.
This is fatwallet... most people probably have it shipped free. I certainly doubt that the purchase of my 1 unit will significantly increase anyone's (much less "everyone"'s) price.
Do you have anything useful to add?
daylapaul
Member
posted: Dec. 28, 2007 @ 1:04p
The specs say this unit is both 4.3" wide with a 4.3" widescreen. Which is it? Is the width 4.3", the diagonal 4.3" or both?
voovoov
Senior Member
posted: Dec. 28, 2007 @ 1:08p
daylapaul said: The specs say this unit is both 4.3" wide with a 4.3" widescreen. Which is it? Is the width 4.3", the diagonal 4.3" or both? Geometry
PNP said: tooloud said: Thanks for increasing prices for everyone by using the shipping service to window shop! Decide if you want it BEFORE it ships, not during.
This is fatwallet... most people probably have it shipped free.
...which has nothing to do with the point, unless you think the shipping services work for Amazon for free.
I certainly doubt that the purchase of my 1 unit will significantly increase anyone's (much less "everyone"'s) price.
Oh, I'm sorry--I didn't realize that you were special and it won't affect prices as long as YOU are the only one that's allowed to shop like this. Beautiful logic...
tooloud said: Oh, I'm sorry--I didn't realize that you were special and it won't affect prices as long as YOU are the only one that's allowed to shop like this. Beautiful logic...
This is a Friday sale... after today the price will go back up not withstanding anything me or anyone else does today. After much contemplation, however, I now realize that because I wasn't 100% certain that I would keep this gps before I bought it (which is perfectly natural) that I may have deprived 1 poor soul of being able to purchase at this price (only if I decide to return it though)... that one person that really really wanted it but it went out of stock 2 seconds too early. In that case, I'll just keep telling myself that it was you so that I don't feel that bad and I won't lose any sleep.
btw... since this price ends today anyway, by your logic I will be doing others a favor if I return it next week. Amazon will have "excessive" stock on hand and will probably put them on sale again.
and also... I decided that just because of your bitching I'll just keep the damn thing. Does that make you feel so much better about yourself?
PNP
Thrifty Member
posted: Dec. 28, 2007 @ 1:54p
Can somebody tell me whether changing the navigation software affects the points of interest?
I think we need to remind ourselves that it is inappropriate to comment on other users. It's, like, not conducive to communal life, man. It's time to focus our talk on the thing were supposed to be talking about rather than on the people talking about the thing we're supposed to be talking about. If we could do that, that'd be totally cool. Otherwise, I'm not going to be able to stay a happy-mellow mod.
yes each software contains encrypted maps. if the data was easily decryptable they'd probably just steal it (oops it is sometimes easily decryptable).
but in a short; you change the software you get new poi's and features related to the software you are BUYING for it
PNP
Thrifty Member
posted: Dec. 28, 2007 @ 2:07p
VBMcGB said: Uh...yeah....
I think we need to remind ourselves that it is inappropriate to comment on other users. It's, like, not conducive to communal life, man. It's time to focus our talk on the thing were supposed to be talking about rather than on the people talking about the thing we're supposed to be talking about. If we could do that, that'd be totally cool. Otherwise, I'm not going to be able to stay a happy-mellow mod.
PNP said: Can somebody tell me whether changing the navigation software affects the points of interest?
I don't know for certain, but I believe that POIs are within the map data. So if the new navigation software can read the map data, that is the file extension is the same and the data layout within the file is correct, then you would need to retain the map files for the new navigation software. Otherwise, you will need new map data for the new navigation software.
Um, for (cough, chirate, cough) software, check http://www.pdax4.com about halfway down.
Would this work with a 16GB or 8GB SDHC card? I would want to use this as a PDA when out of the car and dock it in while driving... with that screen it should be great for reading or watching video while not being used as GPS...
Can I somehow use the Internet with the Bluetooth PAN in the house? To use this device during workout to reach content from my home network/server...
Can somebody tell me why did I even buy this thing?
I am so tempted to buy this. But there doesn't seem to be any firmware updates available at HP. It also seems that they are not supporting it. No accessories available. No downloads available, ....
Can anyone point me to a firmware update? How about a way to install WM5 on this? I question if it has bluetooth or not. The description and GUI show "yes" but the solitary review says no.
franktank232
Member
posted: Dec. 28, 2007 @ 2:53p
If i could through win xp on it and hook up a bluetooth keyboard i'd buy it in a flash. I still have an old Axim sitting in the drawer. This thing does have the same resolution as the Asus Eee, which says a lot for a 4.3 inch screen.
PNP
Thrifty Member
posted: Dec. 28, 2007 @ 3:26p
zulu2003 said: Would this work with a 16GB or 8GB SDHC card? I would want to use this as a PDA when out of the car and dock it in while driving... with that screen it should be great for reading or watching video while not being used as GPS...
Can I somehow use the Internet with the Bluetooth PAN in the house? To use this device during workout to reach content from my home network/server...
Can somebody tell me why did I even buy this thing?
Z.
There are software/firmware updates available here HP dedicated a site to it.
And hopefully it works better than the stupid mobile cross pda that has been sitting in the closet for the past year. (I am sure anything works better that POS)
fentonpcrackshell said: rigor said: If it had WIFI i'd be on it like stink; the last gen ipaq travel assistant had it. bad choice to remove it.yeah, too bad. do you know if you can tether to a wm5/6 device's internet over the bluetooth? Now WiFi is available with Pretec SD WLAN card. See here.
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