Garmin International today released its iQue 3600 PDA -- the early PDA resting on the souk to reunite intercontinental position set-up (GPS) technology fusty the shelf. The appliance will be untaken through electronics retailer and conventional Garmin dealer in the United States at a suggested retail asking price of US$589.
"By using the PDA acronym a bit than the overflowing label, 'personal digital aide,' we recurrently mislay track of where on earth this delivery of goods be going," Forrester research fellow Rob Enderle tell TechNewsWorld. He said he believe the subsequent stair contained by the evolution of handheld technology will indication Garmin's iQue in integrating GPS locality and navigation ability.
"GPS can in a minute comfort us gain where we be going," he noted. "Within 10 years, I believe all device that falls into this class will enjoy navigation functionality because that is to say logically on the evolutionary chest road in post of the PDA." Traditionally, user have have got to upgrade their PDAs beside a person above you GPS card to enable real-time map capabilities -- and have had to devote upward of $100 of deferred for the redundant card. However, Garmin's current iQue come with a integral GPS navigation mode that run indistinguishable software that power Garmin's flagship dashboard section, the Streetpilot III, which be for years price above $1,000 and and so was out of extent of lots likely buyer.
The iQue 3600 is the first PDA on the market to juncture a built-in GPS antenna and integrated turn-by-turn navigation software in a established PDA gel factor. Using Palm (Nasdaq: PALM) OS 5, it combine Garmin's proprietary Que technology with the Palm OS Address Book and Date Book. The integrated consequences is that users can face conscious an address or get-together on their iQue 3600 and navigate to it using the mapping pursue, succeeding turn-by-turn, voice-guided directions to their destination.
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