As someone who has owned the iQue for years, I will say it is awesome and amazing (IN YOUR CAR)<br><br> Battery life with the GPS running is under 2 hours.<br> Dust and dirt on the screen makes it hard to use.<br> No water protection.
<br> Drop it and kiss the $400+ goodbye (my GPSMap fell over 15' and works flawless still)<br> Unless they have changed the mapping interface it has no directional arrow<br> Zoom feature is 120' maximum meaning when it shows your on the cache your within 100 feet.
<br><br> Now the good side.<br><br> If your driving you never have to look at it as the voice navigation and auto reroute is very nice.<br> List all the cahes you want because you can put in external chips.<br> Auto route turn by turn from Tucson to MN without a single offroute warning.
<br><br>The iQue is great for driving around, but the antenna and system in general is too flimsy for outdoor use. I bought mine back before they were available (presales) and have had to return it 5 times for repairs since 2003.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Roping The Wind</b> <<a href="mailto:arizcowboy@hotmail.com">arizcowboy@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>>From: "Michael Dumroese" Hmmmm, next step a BlueTooth GPS for my Palm, and<br>>I will be down to no paper and only one piece of equipment that I would<br>>need to carry.<br>>..just kidding, tho it would be nice.
<br>>Mike<br>>aka myke85268<br><br>If you want ONE unit... GPS, PDA and all paperless caching within this one<br>unit... Garmin makes it... It is the iQue lineup. The M4 being there newest.<br>Here is a link to all these PDA/GPS units they make:
<br><br><a href="http://www.garmin.com/mobile/pdapc.jsp">http://www.garmin.com/mobile/pdapc.jsp</a><br><br>Im not sure i'm into their GPS/PDA units yet. I think I really like them.<br>But I think I like my PDA and my GPS as seperate units. Also, Im not sure
<br>this kind of GPS would be handy for outdoor geocaching and carrying it<br>around while you are climbing rocks or climbing a mountainside, etc. The<br>Garmin PDA units are still lacking way behind though... even in their latest
<br>M4 they havent upped the ante with the processor yet. Still only 312 (which<br>is probably plenty for a PDA though). Some PDA's on the market have almost<br>700mhz processors now. Anyways, the new M4 does look like a really nice unit
<br>though with lots of features.<br><br>Scott<br>Team Ropingthewind<br><br><br>____________________________________________________________<br>Az-Geocaching mailing list <a href="mailto:listserv@azgeocaching.com">listserv@azgeocaching.com
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