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