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Garmin International plans to offer its new Que application with a new Compact Flash GPS module for Pocket PC handhelds called the Que 1620. The device uses Que software to deliver GPS location, mapping and turn-by-turn navigation.

The goal of the Que 1620 is to transform Pocket PC PDAs and smartphones into portable navigation devices. Que provides Pocket PC users with location awareness, address and points-of-interest lookup features, electronic mapping, automatic route generation, configurable road/area avoidance, off-route recalculation, and turn-by-turn directions with voice guidance. Another capability within the Que application is the ability to navigate to an address stored within the PDA's Contacts database.

Additional features include a configurable worldwide basemap that includes highways, major streets, rivers, lakes, coastal waters and significant borders for North/South America, Europe, Africa and/or the Pacific Rim.

The peripheral also includes 64 MB of internal memory for storing map data from Garmin's line of MapSource cartography. The standard package includes MapSource City Select street-level data for the U.S. and Canada. Users can also access backcountry contour maps, digital maps of many of America's best fishing lakes and electronic charts for offshore navigation via optional MapSource CDs.

Unlike most GPS peripherals, the Que 1620 has a flip-up antenna, which can be adjusted to optimize GPS reception. The unit Measures 2 x 1.7 x 0.5 inches and weighs 1.5 ounces. It uses power from the handheld device's battery and sells $267.84.