Nokia Tips Navigation As The Next Must Have

Written by Adam Gosling

Monday, 26 February 2007

Amongst Nokia's recent phone handset announcements is the Nokia 6610 which is the first sign that Nokia plans to make GPS capabilities a mainstream features of cell phone handsets. With music players, high resolution cameras and Internet becoming passe as a selling point for mass market phones, Nokia is lining up Global Position System and Assisted Global Position Systems to be the next must have functionality for you phone. The new Nokia 6110 Navigator has them both to bring navigation-enabled phones into the mass market for 2007. Nokia expects the 6110 Navigator to begin shipping in the second quarter of this calendar year for an estimated retail price of €450. The device has integrated maps with routing information and location search. Nokia says that with a touch of a button you can quickly have a map of your current location search for destinations, find specific routes, or locate services such as restaurants, hotels or shops. Then find your way there with full turn-by-turn 3D navigation of the best route by car or on foot. "Location-based experience is among the fastest growing areas in mobile devices. Offering integrated GPS functionality, the Nokia 6110 Navigator will put maps, routing and navigation into the hands of the broadest consumer market world-wide," said Peter Ropke, Senior Vice President, Broad Appeal Business Unit, Nokia. "With the Nokia 6110 Navigator, mobile phone owners will be able to enjoy the benefits of navigation in their daily life and enjoy a wide range of location-based services - whether they want to explore a city, search for restaurants, get weather forecasts, or look for travel guides for a weekend trip." The Nokia 6110 Navigator will come with a local map pre-installed on the memory card ready for immediate navigation and then additional maps and content - such as traffic information, weather services and travel guides will have to be purchased online or downloaded direct to the phone using the special Nokia Map Manager application. The 6110 Navigator will be able to do this pretty quickly thanks to the HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) connectivity that allows for broadband speed downloads of up to 3.6 Mbps. The navigation functionality is all very cool, but Nokia hasn't scrimped on the traditional phone features to make this phone affordable. You still get real time push email with support for attachments and a nifty Message reader function that will read your emails to you out load. Then there's all the usualy 3G multimedia tools such as full screen video sharing and video calls. The phone has a large 2.2-inch QVGA (1600 x 1200 pixels resolution) screen, capable of displaying 16 million colors. A 2 megapixel camera with a dedicated capture key, panorama mode, and integrated flash has a slide over lens protector to keep you pics sharp and free from scratches and dust marks. The Nokia 6110 is based on the industry leading Symbian S60 operating system and so have a huge range of downloadable games and applications available for it. The slider is not too big either Nokia says the phone will be 101 x 49 x 20 mm which is pretty acceptable if you are thinking about this as a GPS replacement device and the weight will be 123 grams which is a little on the heavy side for a traditional phone only device, but more than acceptable if you consider the power you have in your hand. Nokia says the 6110 Navigator will have a talk-time up to 3.5 hours on GSM and 2.5 hours on WCDMA (3G) networks. Standby time will be up to 11 days depending on network conditions. Key features of the Nokia 6110 Navigator include: Fully integrated GPS Navigation with one touch Navigator key Local map pre-installed on the memory card for immediate navigation HSDPA for fast web browsing and downloading WCDMA 2100 HSDPA, GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 2 megapixel camera with integrated flash, 4x digital zoom and panorama mode Real-time video sharing and video calling ~40 MB free internal memory Support of microSD memory card up to 2 GB Related news items Next-Gen 3G RAZR DownUnder -24/09/2007 First Windows 6 Palm In Australia -12/09/2007 Broadcom Enthusisam for 802.11n Wavers -06/09/2007 Semi-Rugged With Grunt -05/09/2007 Sydney Airport Network Improved For APEC -03/09/2007 Newer news items SAGEM Offers Another Shell -26/03/2007 Google Phone Would Be Significant Departure -19/03/2007 Award Winning Low-Cost Motofone Debuts -14/03/2007 Nokia Introduces Software Updater -07/03/2007 New iPaq A Dud Says Gartner -28/02/2007 Older news items Sony Ericsson W880i Launched On 3 -22/02/2007 Talking To Your HP iPaq About FMC -22/02/2007 Dopod Quick To Add 6.0 -20/02/2007 Treo 750 On Telstra NextG -18/02/2007 Lotus Gets Tighter BlackBerry Integration -22/01/2007 Tag This Now: