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Garmin iQue M3 PDA

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Product Description: Garmin iQue M3

The iQue M3 is a user-friendly automotive GPS navigator in a sleek, lightweight Pocket PC design. The attractively priced iQue M3 features larger, more-intuitive icons that make it easier for consumers to select navigation applications using their index finger, rather than a stylus.

No other unit on today's market combines straightforward in-car navigation with Pocket...

The iQue M3 is a user-friendly automotive GPS navigator in a sleek, lightweight Pocket PC design. The attractively priced iQue M3 features larger, more-intuitive icons that make it easier for consumers to select navigation applications using their index finger, rather than a stylus.

No other unit on today's market combines straightforward in-car navigation with Pocket PC applications like the iQue M3. This powerful time-saving tool is ideal for anyone who wants to simplify their life with one integrated device for their automobile, home, or office.

The iQue M3 features Microsoft's Windows Mobile 2003 Professional Edition software package, Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition, which supports portrait/landscape screen orientation for easy viewing of multimedia content.

Incorporating Garmin's proven, easy-to-use c-series automotive navigation software, the iQue M3 provides premium in-car navigation capability with automatic route calculation to any destination. The intuitive, point-screen interface requires little input from the user. Users can easily see where they are on an electronic map, and look up an address or point of interest and route to it. An integrated speaker gives voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions to your destination.

Users are also able to choose between a three-dimensional navigation view or the more traditional 2D overhead view. The 3D-navigation perspective lets drivers see an uncluttered view of what's down the road.

A built-in basemap of North and South America shows major highways, thoroughfares, railways, lakes, rivers and borders. Garmin includes its MapSource City Select DVD as a standard accessory, so users can download detailed street-level map data, look up nearly six million points of interest (POIs), and navigate to addresses throughout the U.S. and Canada.

The GPS antenna on the iQue M3 folds flush with the back of the unit. To navigate, simply raise the antenna to enable Garmin's patented antenna-release switch that simultaneously powers up the device, initiates the satellite-acquisition sequence, and defaults to the QueMap interface. Once the antenna switch is triggered, the device prepares to navigate. The antenna can also be adjusted for optimal GPS signal reception.

Product Specification: Garmin iQue M3

Operating System:Microsoft Windows Mobile for Pocket PC 2003 Second Edition
Color Screen:Yes
Installed Memory:64 MB
Slot Types Provided:SD Memory Card
Average Battery Life:19 hours

User Reviews: Garmin iQue M3

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    Save Gas and Keep the Peace

    By popork  May 17, 2006 | 6 out of 8 found this Garmin iQue M3 review helpful

    Pros: Accuracy, Phones included in POI, Pocket PC

    Cons: no WiFi built-in

    Major reason for buying : Keeps the peace during extended driving since I can't rely on my wife who has no sense of direction whatsoever. Now I can drive without fear of getting lost. Yahoo maps are OK but if we need to do a side trip (e.g.traf...fic accident, gas, food, washroom, etc) then it means several minutes of driving back to where we left off. Save fuel and mileage by minimizing unnecessary driving especially with the current gas prices. The GPS shows either the fastest or shortest route and recalculate alternate route in case you miss a turn or freeway exit. Easily list popular convenient stores, restaurant and other POI's closeby with their phone nos. so I can check their hours or make reservations. Nice GPS graphics - shows your location and adjacent streets in 3D. Voice prompts are loud and clear. Pocket PC easily syncs my contacts from my home PC and shows my contact's location in the map. To resolve cons: Bought separate WiFI SD Card so I can access internet and check e-mail. Read more Less

Pro Reviews: Garmin iQue M3

  • Brighthand

    Garmin iQue M3 Review

    The M3 makes for a solid and reasonably reliable GPS navigation system, though it's less suited for more than basic handheld computing functions. Read more

  • CNET

    Garmin iQue M3

    The Garmin iQue M3 offers the navigation features of the iQue M5 at a more affordable price. Read more

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