Product Description

Navigate, stay connected, and be entertained when you travel for business, for pleasure, or both. The HP iPAQ rx5915 Travel Companion helps you make the most of travels ranging from walks around the block to jaunts around the world. This thin, stylish GPS navigation system guides you virtually anywhere with ease.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12606 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: GRAY
• Brand: Hewlett-Packard
• Model: FA811AA#ABA
• Released on: 2006-11-13
• Platform: Windows
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00" h x 3.00" w x 5.00" l, 2.45 pounds
• Battery type: Lithium Ion
• Native resolution: 240 x 320
• Display size: 3.5

Features

• Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 5.0 for Pocket PC with Security Feature Pack and Samsung® SC32442 400 MHz Processor
• Integrated SiRFstarIII GPS receiver and pre-installed navigation software and maps
• 3.5 inch Transmissive QVGA color display with LED backlight, powersave mode, and anti-glare coating and integrated microphone, speaker and one 3.5 mm jack with stereo-earphone output
• Removable/rechargeable 1700 mAh lithium-ion user replaceable battery and AC Power input: 100-240 Vac, 50/60 Hz and USB 1.2 Client supported via mini-USB connector and one SD card slot
• Dimensions in inches: 4.74 x 3.00 x 0.65 and weighs 5.99 oz with battery

Amazon.com Product Description
Whether for business, for pleasure, or a little of both, the HP iPAQ rx5915 Travel Companion helps you make the most of your travels whether they take you around town or around the world. The premier GPS navigation system guides you to virtually anywhere with ease. Everything is pre-installed and ready to use. Just turn it on and go. The thin, stylish design fits simply in the car and is easy to take with you wherever you travel. Plus, your HP iPAQ Travel Companion is full-function Windows Mobile 5.0 handheld.

The HP iPAQ Travel Companion is a full-function Windows Mobile 5.0 handheld with built-in GPS. View larger.

Check out some of the iPAQ's key features. View larger.

Check out some of the iPAQ's key interface features. View larger.

Take your office with you and stay connected with integrated 802.11b/g wireless LAN and Bluetooth wireless technologies to the people and information that is important to you. When you want to relax you can listen to your favorite music, view your photos and videos, surf the web, or play games. Navigate, stay connected, and be entertained wherever you travel with the HP iPAQ Travel Companion.

The HP iPAQ rx5915 Travel Companion helps you make the most of travels ranging from walks around the block to jaunts around the world. This thin, stylish GPS navigation system guides you virtually anywhere with ease.

Navigate

• Be guided virtually anywhere with the rx5915's premier GPS navigation system and maps1 (no SD cards or activation required), follow voice-guided navigation and on-screen prompts
• Plug and play: the installed GPS navigation software and maps allow you to get going fast; no SD cards or activation required!
• Navigate fast with the HP Quick Launch feature, and convenient buttons
• Simplify your trips by accessing weather, current times, currencies, measurement conversions, and a packing organizer
• Includes the TomTom Navigator 6 navigation software and complete maps of United States and Canada pre-installed (Feature available in North America).

Stay connected

• Ensure a strong connection without flip-up or external antennas with the integrated SiRFstarIII GPS receiver
• Take your office with you: stay connected via the latest Windows Mobile 5.0,802.11b/g wireless2 LAN, and Bluetooth
• Connect to a variety of Bluetooth-enabled devices, including Internet-enabled Bluetooth phones
• Keep it with you in your pocket, purse, or car; it's super compact

Be entertained

• Relax: listen to your favorite music, view photos and videos, surf the Web, play games
• See everything clearly on the large, antiglare, touchscreen
• View and share photos and create slide shows with HP Photosmart Mobile
• Play games including Solitaire and Bubble Breaker

What's in the box?
HP iPAQ rx5915 Travel Companion, Lithium-ion 1700 mAh removable battery, AC adapter, Mini-USB, Synchronization/charge cable, Car charger, Car holder, Windshield mount,Slip case, Documentation kit

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Customer Reviews

Discontinued - Out of Date
I purchased this from Amazon Nov 2006. I loved it all this time. But this is not an inexpensive item and I expected to be able to use it for a number of years.
The battery life is very low lasting no more thatn 1.5 years. Not horrible in itself
But this is a discontinued product from HP and is no longer supported by them. They offer no software updates at all.
WORST: The Tom Tom Maps are already out of date on this system. The newest Maps available either from HP or from Tom Tom are dated April 2007 and they will not be provding any more because Tom Tom also no longer supports this.

I have read that you can by a Garmin XT card for $99 and use the Garmin Software instead. I may be stuck with that unless I want to trash the HP entirely but you don't have to be. Buy something more up to date.

Could not ask for much more.
I have owned this product for almost two years now. It was a very wise investment. If you want a pda/gps/mp3 player all in one, this is the product for you. The only compliant I have is the need to do a soft restart in the midst of do something (notorious for Windows Mobile). Although I have never had the GPS software cause the PDA to freeze. The installed TomTom software is great, but I have had it tell me to make a U-turn on the interstate. Just use common sense while using. Don't mindlessly do whatever the GPS tells you. Merely use the GPS as an aid. I have not had any problems, so I can not tell you if the technical support is good or not. All around great product.

ipaq rx5915
Powerful, convenient, value for money PDA/GPS package. Slightly big and heavy for use as a PDA to carry around everyday, though large enough to display sufficient features for a GPS to be functional. It seems to take a while for the GPS signal to lock in and hold a signal and occasionally the signal is lost while driving despite clear skies and the GPS having a clear view of the sky. The interface is fine, though I think Belkin's GPS software is slightly better overall. I do not like the fact that it does not tell you whether your destination is on the left or right hand side of the road. I also wish the input keyboard was in qwerty format and had an auto-complete feature to save time when inputting addresses. I also wish that it would at least pronounce names of freeways when giving directions. Overall though, it has no competition because of its excellent PDA and above average GPS functionality in an affordable price.