How She Handles

My first impressions of the n35 GPS were not spectacular. Rather than being a stylish and high-end looking PDA it looks cheap, plastic and, despite being reasonably weighted, it doesn't fit in the hand particularly well. This may not matter when she's in the provided sturdy car cradle, but the idea of the n35 GPS is to be a PDA as well as a car-bound travel planner.

The Destinator mapping software is the brains behind the GPS operation, and all in all it lives up to its makers claims of being an intelligent and economical mapping solution for finding travel routes.

When first getting started one would be advised to look through the options to ensure that the software is correctly configured to your locale - not set to read addresses in US format when in the UK and so on - but so long as everything is correctly set up the software is relatively spot-on for locating addresses.

The problem with entering addresses is that you have to use an onscreen keyboard which takes a fair amount of time, and the stylus on the n35 GPS has not been specially shortened as with some other GPS PDA styluses. This means that when the PDA is in its car-cradle you cannot get out the stylus, and so have to remove the whole thing to get at the stylus.

This can cause problems if you need to do things on the move, and at best it's a delay one might not need, particularly if combined with having to change out expansion cards and wait for the under powered processor to wheeze its way through a few calculations.