Garmin iQue 3600 Review
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After much fanfare, Garmin, makers of GPS systems for the military, avionics, and general consumer industries, finally began to ship its much anticipated iQue 3600, the first Palm OS PDA with an integrated GPS. Fortunately, I was one of the first to own Garmin’s newest offering, after an excursion to Alexandria, Virginia took me to Navtech Seminars & GPS Supply. Today I’ll be reviewing that unit to see whether it is indeed worth its hefty MSRP $589 (USD) price tag.
I was eager to try my new iQue out on the trip back from Alexandria to Durham, NC. Something I quickly noticed was the unit’s lack of a pre-installed basemap, which contains all of the major highways. Normally, Garmin products have their basemap installed before using the GPS, making them permanent within the unit. However, this is the first Garmin GPS where the basemap can be updated alongside the detail maps, which contain all the minor roads in a given area.
I was astounded by the iQue’s accuracy. The built in antenna performs beautifully and the mapping software far surpasses that of the DeLorme Earthmate GPS Receiver, which screwed up many times on the trip and which was, at the time, connected to my laptop. To be blunt about it, Garmin far exceeds its competitors in the software category.
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