HP iPAQ rx5915 Travel Companion

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.

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

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

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Customer Reviews

Rating: - Sleek companion with limitations.
The main reason for purchasing this unit for me was GPS and internet access.Decent music and video playback capability adds value and makes it a true travel companion.Having said that, it's no longer available from HP and is certainly NOT worth paying more than $150 for it.WHY? because now you can buy a much more capable netbook computer for about $100 more that offers same or greater runtime on the battery and easily add GPS capability for a few dollars more.Obviously the small form factor ... Read More
Rating: - GPS+PDA+WiFi=A Great Travel Companion
I was looking for a device that would give me GPS and Internet access over WiFi, but that wasn't a cell phone too, so I could avoid a data plan.There are surprisingly few devices that meet this simple requirement.Happily, the iPAQ rx5915 Travel Companion does this and much more.

It runs Tom Tom 6 GPS using a SirfStar III GPS antenna, it's an MP3 player with equalizer, and it is also a very nice PDA.Beyond the normal PDA functions it has a travel assistant, (which includes weather ... Read More
Rating: - Problematic, but the warranty is unacceptable.
I will keep this short and sweet.

The device has been problematic at times. For example, if I use Wifi, then turn it off, I usually have to reboot the device before attempting to use wifi again or it will never connect. Similar problems with the GPS, but not as consistent.

Widespread stability and speed problems are there, but nothing too serious, and nothing one wouldn't expect from Windows Mobile.

No, the problem isn't the device, per se, but the manufacturer when ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More