HP iPAQ 300 Series Travel Companion (310,312,314,316,318) Expert Reviews

alaTest has collected and analyzed 202 reviews from magazines and websites. Reviewers really like the price. The interface also impresses, but many are less positive about the menu.

Price, Interface, Performance, Screen

Menu, Memory, Maps, Usability

Experts rate this product 71/100 and users 65/100. We analyzed these ratings, the product age and more factors, but the amount of rated reviews for this product is too low to calculate a reliable alaScore™.

Last year, HP introduced its HP iPaq rx5900 Travel Companion, a sleek gadget that combined the powers of a PDA and a portable navigation system into one solution. It was the first GPS device for the company, and it enjoyed moderate success with our ...

Some of the hottest gadgets now are GPS devices. They are quickly becoming almost as important as any other feature in a car. If you're still not convinced you need a global positioning system, keep reading as we review the HP iPaq 310 GPS. You just ...

Overall I like this GPS a lot. It has a great looking GUI, a beautiful screen, a good hardware layout and it is packed with features. I was bummed out about my phone working, but won't hold it against the GPS. Using the GPS is easy; it is really ...

HP have offered innovations in the iPAQ 310 GPS Navigator and Travel Companion that are not available from competitors yet. The iPAQ 310 is the first chance for consumers to experience the performance boost offered to navigation devices by SiRF€™s ...

Poor software design and usability undermine the high-quality hardware of this GPS device.

Voice directions include spoken names ; Crisp LCD touch screen

Must register to sync contacts ; Connected Web travel-planning service needs work

The 310 iPaq Travel Companion is good-looking hardware that handles navigation basics fine. But until the extras work better, it's not worth the high price

Gorgeous display ; lots of features, including media support and Bluetooth 2.0 ; online trip planning

Wonky route calculation ; text-to-speech feature gives unclear voice prompts ; confusing menu icons ; sluggish performance ; can't disable navigation disclaimer ; device froze, had to be reset during trips

The HP iPAQ 310 Travel Companion comes with a nice screen and loads of features, but with all its drawbacksparticularly the unreliable route calculationwe're not sure you'll want to take it behind the wheel.

We had a lot of problems testing the 310 Travel Companion; more problems than we've had with any other device in recent memory..

Wonderful screen ; lots of features

Navigation is non-intuitive ; instructions are lacking ; loading media onto the device is a hassle

When you boot up just about any device from HP, you get a splash screen exclaiming, "HP Invent." This may be pure marketing shtick, but in the case of the new HP iPAQ 310 Travel Companion, it's actually true: The device offers innovation that its ...

Powerful dual-core Titan processor. High-resolution widescreen display. Forty-channel GPS receiver. Excellent 3D rendering. Buildings rendered in 3D in 40 U.S. cities. Multisegment routing.

Power connects to device directly, not via mounting bracket. Text on the bottom of the screen is a bit small.

The HP iPAQ 310 Travel Companion is the first GPS device to use a speedy dual-core processor. When it's coupled with a high-resolution widescreen display, the results are pretty impressive.

The first GPS to offer 3D maps, the iPAQ 310 is a promising portable navigation device.

>• Easy to plan multistop itineraries, • Large 12-million-POI database, • 4.3-inch glare-resistant screen

>• 3D maps slow things down, • Hard to look up POIs, Memory: 128MB SDRAM, 2GB flash ROM, , , , , , , On a product billed as a travel companion, we expected more, such as a currency conversion tool or a directory of travel discounts. Although we're ...