Well!

I read that the Sat Nav included 'Points of Interest' such as hotels, restaurants and petrol stations and thought this was a great price to include all these features as well as the Microsoft Office package on the PDA.

The Sat Nav itself is actually quite good for the price, the maps are very clear and the spoken directions, although not always the quickest route, gives you plenty of time when on the motorway or dual carriage ways to move into the correct lane. The voice will tell you on a motorway that you are exiting 2 miles in advance, so that you are not panicking about moving into the correct lane. On normal roads, there is usually a warning of around 500 yards before you are turning or joining a roundabout. The day/night feature is a great idea, I'm distracted by imaginary shiny red balls as it is so to be able to dim the maps and not be distracted is good for me and everyone else as you shouldn't even be looking at it whilst driving! Only distracting thing is the flashing blue light to say that you have the GPS on and the flashing green light to say that the device is being charged up.

Typing in address is a bit of a pain. For the first month, I had to type in the address, city and number of where I was going to because I couldn't figure out how to just use the postcode but there is a way of just entering postcodes, I actually recommend entering the address though, much more reliable.

I have had a few problems with the signal, the antenna needs to be pointing into the sky in order to pick up any satellite signals, it won't work whilst sitting on the seat next to you however once the signal has been picked up you can move the pda around without worrying so much about losing your signal. The other problem I have had is that I am sometimes told to do a u turn when it is not necessary, this is usually when in some kind of industrial estate and may be due to maps not being updated etc.

Another problem I have is that, there is no 'shut down' option like on a computer, you just press the button on the side and switch it off. I have done this a few times whilst 'Destinator '(the sat nav application) has been left on, then next time I've tried to use the N35, it freezes on that screen and doesn't allow any usage which means resetting it and having to type all your user details in again as well as going through the whole 'tap screen' setup, so, not always the most reliable device.

I can't really comment too much on the actual PDA side of it as I bought it as a Sat Nav. I have used it a couple of times messing around and find it really easy to navigate around if you are familar with Windows. My 9 year old sisters loves using Word to write something on the screen and and see how good it is at predicting what she actually meant, half the time we don't even know though so the pda has no chance. I've had no problems using any of the different transcriber methods, you can either use the onscreen keyboard, or use your own handwriting, bearing in mind you need to write quite clearly in order for it to be understood and transribed correctly. You can even use the pen to draw an image in word! ( Can you tell I'm easily amused?)

I've had a few problems using this USB cable to share things from my computer to the PDA have had it over 2 months now and still haven't managed to work it out and I'm doing an IT course so I'm not exactly un educated on these things. No idea what its capable of doing but I have a feeling it may be to put music, images etc onto your PDA, oh well!