It features Microsoft's latest Pocket PC software, Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition, which supports portrait and landscape viewing, especially useful for looking at maps. It runs on a 416-MHz Intel PXA272 processor and integrates 64MB of RAM, 64MB of ROM, and data back-up protection. Bluetooth lets users establish a personal-area network with computer systems and Bluetooth-enabled devices such as mobile phones, other PDAs, and printers.

GPS Features
Featuring a built-in basemap of North and South America, Garmin said the iQue M5 shows major highways, thoroughfares, railways, lakes, rivers and borders. The company includes its MapSource City Select CD, so users can download detailed street-level map data, look up more than five million points of interest (POI), and navigate to an address in the U.S. and Canada.

You can also add a European or Pacific Rim basemap from the installation CD. International versions of the iQue M5 will feature respective basemaps, mapping software and language support. The integrated Que applications let you see where you are on an electronic map, look up a point of interest and route to it, and follow voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions to a selected destination.

If you miss a turn, the iQue M5 automatically recalculates a new route to get them back on track. Advanced routing features include the ability to specify roadways to avoid and find POIs near the current route. You can even attach a "location stamp" to a profile in your contact database or appointment calendar and navigate directly to these addresses.

More Features
The GPS antenna on the iQue M5 folds flush with the back of the unit when not in use, making the 5.0 x 2.8 x 0.74-inch and 5.2 ounce device more compact. The unit's 240 x 320 pixel resolution, 65,536 color display measures 3.5 inches diagonally.