Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Very good, but not Garmin's best GPS
I have been awaiting the release of this unit for a long time. I even sold my Streetpilot III to buy this so that I could integrate my PDA with GPS. You have heard all the positives, here are my list of negatives:1. The biggest disappointment is that there are a LOT of addresses that cannot be found by a simple search. I have not been able to find some very popular roads. Yet, when you zoom in on that road manually, there it is, name and all. That is bad, bad, bad. That MUST be fixed on this unit. With my job, there are many times I go to an address or street I have never been to before, so I cannot manually go there by the map. I need the unit to find it for me and send me there. 2.You have to use your fingernail to open the GPS antenna. The hole is too small to even use my pinky to open it. 3. The stylus is very hard to remove. I have to pry it out with my fingernails, as well. 4. In many instances, you have to save a POI or address that you enter as a waypoint before you can route to it. On the Streetpilot III, the GoTo feature routed right to it from the search menu. If you need a PDA and GPS in one unit, this one will work for you. If you need a really good GPS, though, I would recommend that you wait for the new Streetpilot coming out in late summer 2003. The iQue is missing too much information to be effective as a standalone GPS. There are still more positives than negatives for this unit, though. Just be aware of the shortfalls before you fork over that green!
Rating:  - Nice PDA/GPS integration
The new iQue 3600 from Garmin is truly amazing. For a very attractive price, you get a powerful Palm OS 5-based PDA that sports a screaming 200 MHz Motorola DragonBall MXL ARM 9 processor, 32MB of memory (some of which is reserved for system operations), and a nice 320x480 high-color screen, the highest resolution I've seen on a palmtop. The iQue 3600 weighs in at a little over 5 ounces with the built-in LiIon battery, and it's only slightly bigger than a Zire 71, and feels good in either hand.So you can use it as a fast Palm PDA, but the true beauty of the iQue is its built-in GPS function. When you are out in the open -- GPS won't work indoors or in a dense forest since the satellite signal can't get to you -- the iQue picks up both GPS and WAAS signals (WAAS is a system that supplements GPS, the way I understand it) and, in less than a minute, tell you your early coordinates. Coupled with a mapping program (a very basic one is included), the iQue will tell you where on earth you are, accurate to about 10 feet! For a first-time GPS user like me, the result simply blows me away. Obviously if you don't travel a lot, or live in a big city like New York, GPS is of very little use. But for the road warrior as well as fancy gadget lover (I'm the latter), this is a must-have. Both the GPS and the bright, large color screen suck battery juice like a puppy in Houston, so battery is weak on the iQue, about the only gripe one would have about this wonderfully implemented product. With GPS on continuously and screen set to mid-level brightness and running a mapping program off the secure digital card, you'll run out in about an hour! That's not a typo or exaggeration. If you can do without sophisticated map software and turn off backlight, you can probably manage for about 3-4 hours. If you don't use GPS -- but you got this really for the GPS, didn't you? -- using the Palm part for an hour a day will last you about 3 days with backlight on. Which is not totally bad compared to Pocket PCs, hehehe... In short, the iQue does exceptionally well what it was designed to do. Granted GPS as a whole can be improved, but Garmin has done an admirable job with a well designed, well made product and the price should tempt every GPS user out there.
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