Product Description

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 todays 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 Microsofts Windows Mobile 2003 Professional Edition software package, Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition, which supports portrait/landscape screen orientation for easy viewing of multimedia content. The GPS antenna on the iQue M3 folds flush with the back of the unit. To navigate, simply raise the antenna to enable Garmins 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 Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42560 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Garmin
• Model: 010-00437-00
• Dimensions: 10.00" h x 14.00" w x 12.00" l, 4.00 pounds
• Native resolution: 240 x 320
• Display size: 3.5

Features

• Product Type - GPS
• Computing Software - Microsoft Pocket Outlook, Internet Explorer,Word and Excel, Windows Media Player, MSN Messenger Service.
• Processor - 312-MHz Intel PXA 271 Xscale processor, dedicated 48 MHz ARM7 GPS coprocessor.
• Unit size/weight - 5.0 x 2.8 x 0.74 inch / 5.9 oz.
• Screen dimensions - 3.5-inch diagonal.

Customer Reviews

Garmin iQue M3
I have been using the Garmin iQue M3 for five months. This is my first PDA and my first GPS. I use it daily. It is very helpful and causes me little trouble. The list of tasks the Garmin iQue M3 is capable of performing is long. It keeps track my office and personal contacts, appointments, task lists, and notes, which are synchronized with my office and home computer. I use it on business and personal trips as a GPS. I use it for email and Internet with an optional wifi card. I use it to learn Spanish and to watch movies (requires memory card). If you need both a PDA and a GPS the Garmin is worth considering. I recommend getting a memory card and I have never used the Garmin without one. Strengths: good PDA, good GPS, smooth integration of the two, and car mount. Weaknesses: no built in wifi, low memory, and the battery cannot be replaced by the user.

Great Integrated PDA/GPS with WAAS technology!
This is one of my first GPS and it has been excellent! I paid a whopping low $377 shipped for it, brand new!

The 3D maps, Points-of-Interests, and voice-guided turn-by-turn directions are very accurate...just like the same in the crazy expensive Nuvi 350...especially when you enable the WAAS feature! This allows nearly superior accuracy over conventional tracking.

The off-route calculation is fast and efficient after going off rate for about 1000 feet... route calculations are pretty quick usually taking about 10-15 seconds. The voice prompts are clear and audible.

Yes sometimes this unit hangs once in a while (especially when you are searching for a location and then you go back and try to browse a map).

Overall this is a great PDA with integrated GPS. It is a lot better than the M5 because it features 3D mapping. The M4 is the latest of the M-series family of Garmin GPS/PDA and that (m4) features integrated maps already onto the PDA. But for me, the 512MB SD card is more than capable of holding 75% of the North American Continent, so the M3 is probably a wiser choice considering it is a lot cheaper than the M4! The entire state of California only requires less than 70 megabytes of storage.

Other features include the SDIO/SD slot which allows wireless 802.11b capabilities if you buy a $50 wireless card.

Overall this is a excellent buy if you are looking for a portable PDA with integrated GPS and can get it for under $400.

Be careful as to your PC configuration
I bought this unit and was excited to see how it performed. It turned on and acquired the satellites within 10 minitues initially, all ok. I spent the next 4 days trying to get it to work with my computer. After several emails and phone conversations, Garmin finally told me the deal. No Garmin unit is designed to work with Windows XP Media Edition. Additionally, their USB connection will only work if the USB chips are Intel. The following chips will definitely not work: ALI, NEC,or VIA. I am not happy with Garmin. They could have saved me a lot of grief by stating this in their advertisements or home page technical FAQs.