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 - Love it!I love the iPAQ, it's great. I keep my calendar, my contacts, my tasks all in one place and it helps me get where I need to go. I have used the GPS even when I knew where I was going because it gives you your arrival time and count down for how long you have left to travel. I would definitely recommend this product. Rating:  - HP iPAQ rx5915The HP Travel Companion does a great job on navigation, except for local destinations where it seems to stumble a bit on best routes. It is quick in acquiring satellites and accurate on mileage and times. It has been good on my home WiFi network, connecting as quickly as my laptop computers do, and battery life has been good. The user manual is rather short on details and the learning curve on the operating system is, so far, fairly steep. The HP iPAQ rx5915 packs a lot of power and functionality in a small package. I'm hoping that I can use it rather than a laptop for e-mail while traveling. Rating: - Best device ever and for travel is a mustFirst of all, I don't believe in convergence. I don't like a camera-mp3 player-pda-cell phone-web browser-gps, because 1. you don't want to lost all the devices if you lost one and 2. i firmly believe in the "stick it on what you do best". That said, I love this product. I was a loyal customer of Palm and before buying this one, I've already owned 3 different Palms. So, when the time for an upgrade come, I was very doubtful about continue with my loyalty to Palm (and the LifeDrive) or move to the Windows Mobile world. Then I find the Travel Compannion. This product is awesome. It does everything as adviced and then a little more. Some reviewers said that this is a GPS with PDA features, some said it's a PDA with GPS. Either way you look at it, it excels in both fields. Two weeks before buying it I have the chance to travel to Miami and rent a car. You must know I'm chilean, and that was my first ever travel to USA. I went to the rent-a-car desk, and the guy said: reservation number please. I took the Travel Companion, got connected to the internet using my cell phone as a modem, and bluetooth as interface between both devices. Download my email to the preinstalled Outlook and get the reservation number. Give it to the guy at the desk. He asked "do you want GPS". I said no thanks. Take the car, intalled the car craddle included in the package in less that 30 seconds. Power up my iPaq and the car, wait another 30 seconds, search for the hotel I was staying (remember, first time in Miami, not a clue about addresses or roads or anything) and followed the directions. Get to the hotel in less than 10 minutes without a single turnaround. Amazing. 21th century stuff. 2 cons: 1. TomTom only have maps of Europe, USA and Canada. I knew this before buying. But they told me that they're not planning any extension of the maps. So in South America, the GPS is useless (as far as a navigation tool goes. You can still get the coordinates of the point you're standing) 2. This device is so easy to operate and so trustfull, that you'll tend to rely on it too much. I was so scared that I'd lost it or it was stolen, because I simply couldn't make it back to the hotel without it. I still don't have a clue about the street of Miami. Still, I love this product. It's the best device I've buyed ever. Rating:  - HP Service/Documentation is the worstI have just purchased the HP Ipaq hw5915 today. I like the product with the integrated GPS/PDA funtionality. It is a bit quirky with the navigation through the menu's but I can live with that. I have puchased an SD card 4g and brought it home. I installed the card and the device would not recognize it. I opened an HP support chat session and the service tech said he did not know the issue and said he would pass it off to another person and closed the chat session. I had tried another SD card 2g card and it recognized the card. I have not been able to find the documentation on the SD card and apparently the service techs do not know either. I am trying to get documents to sync to a folder on the SD card and cannot. It keeps filling up the core memory. I opened another support chat session and since I had a support call already submitted, they cancled the second support call and would not answer any questions. This is very unacceptable support and terrible documentation. I will be returning this device tomorrow. Rating: - Very pleased with GPS and the WirelessBefore buying this product I was worried about the GPS functionality. Apparently they had some problems with it, but with the new Firmware you can download from HP website, the GPS connects really quick and signal strenght is very good (provided you are not inside your room). The second amazing thing is the wireless, very easy to use and has a good range. The product comes with Hotmail for pocket pc, so you can download your messages from the web and sync with your pocket pc (without any extra cost). I could install skype on it an then make calls using the HP RX6915. But be aware that just one old version of Skype works on the HP. You can download it from HP Pocket pc forum. You couldn't get a better product, go for it.
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