You can save time and money by taking visual and vocal guidance for the shortest routes available. Produced by HP, the iPAQ navigation system has a high range of compatibility with many pocket PC models. The prices for the most advanced packages are a bit spicy as not everyone can afford to pay $330 for the iPAQ GPS system, regardless of the technological superiority. Complete maps of the US and Canada are provided together with a Bluetooth receiver. iPAQ owners will be pleased with the travel quality that this kit brings.

Besides the good parts, there are downsides to the iPAQ GPS too, and you'll find them explained in lots of online reviews. Considered a bit bulky according to some critics, the receiver makes a good match with the dashboard by its anti-slip features. The more secure alternative is the mounting of the iPAQ GPS on the air vent. It has incorporated Bluetooth technology that makes the wireless connection and the data transfer possible, and you can perform the map installation upload according to the radius segments that you see fit. When you've got the maps you can navigate by contact list, by favorite destinations, by specific address and by intersection.

With iPAQ GPS, you can choose the device features; thus, you can alternative roads over highways or you can select the shortest route to the destination. There are some competitive products that are less comprehensive in terms of features but the turn by turn directions are impeccable and so is real-time information. Thus, you can learn about the remaining distance or the estimated time of arrival and also learn about hotels, ATMs, gas stations and restaurants. The accuracy of the device is very high and even if you miss a turn, the device performs a rerouting to get you back on the right track.

Offering a wide variety of functionality GPS Systems are becoming more and more popular in the worldwide transport industry and penetrating into the domestic markets with hand held models and car sat nav systems growing in unit sales year on year.

The most common types of satellite navigation equipment are:-

• Portable Satellite Navigation Systems for cars
• Handheld GPS systems
• Mobile phone GPS
• Built - in Satellite Navigation Systems for cars

GPS Systems or Global Positioning Systems to give them their full name are one of the worlds most widely utilised communication, positioning and time reference technologies, expanding into homes, transportation, recreation and cellular phone arenas. Satellite technology is never far away from our everyday lives and it will become an increasing integrated part of our ongoing develoment.

By receiving coded reference points from a network of satellites circulating earth, GPS systems provide an exact location point on the globe.Producing reference points in longitude and lattitude giving detailed information dowm to minutes and seconds.

13°19'43" N is an example of a lattitude translated it reads 13 degress 19 minutes and 43 seconds North.  The following are gps system results for well known global reference points:-

• Arctic Circle: 66° 33? 39? N
• Tropic of Cancer: 23° 26? 21? N
• Tropic of Capricorn: 23° 26? 21? S
• Antarctic Circle: 66° 33? 39? S

Whether you are on foot, in a car, on a bike...Satellite Navigation will come into play at some point during your journey through life.