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Review of HP iPAQ 614 published March 13, 2008 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. HP iPAQ 614 doesn't have QWERTY keyboard - it has only the regular cellphone keypad, but it has assisted GPS, whereby "assisted" doesn't mean bad: You can forgive quite a lot of the minor issues already mentioned because the device does zip along quite happily with most if not all the programs it uses. There is no navigation software to give a comparison at this time, and the GPS did not work initially it as was showing as present but disabled, with no apparent method of switching it on. This was resolved with a quick phone call to HP and the advice is to take the Phone out for a drive for about an hour and that should sort it. Oddly it did, and Google maps worked absolutely fine and again fast and responsive. The 614 has assisted GPS which seems to be quite misunderstood at the moment. So let me just clear up how this seems to work on the 614. You do not need to be continuously connected to the network in order for the GPS to work, in fact most of the time wen I was testing the GPS I didn't even have a SIM card installed. What the 614 will do though is connect to the internet and download updated Ephemris data once every few days. This 'assists' the GPS chipset establish a quick fix. In practice this seems to work quite well and a fix is established quite rapidly. To learn more, visit review of HP iPAQ 614. Credit: Matt.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)
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