Published by krisse at 9:58 BST, June 13th 2007
The Nokia 6110 Navigator, an S60 smartphone with built-in GPS and maps, is finally available in the shops. AAS takes a look at the European Sim-Free package.
The 6110 Navigator is a Symbian S60 3rd Edition FP1 smartphone with a built-in GPS receiver and comes bundled with detailed maps of your part of the world as well as a less detailed map of the entire world.
The 6110 features the now-standard QVGA (240x320) screen, and has a 2 megapixel camera with flash and lens cover. It supports Quadband GSM (850/900/1800/1900) and 3G WCDMA/UMTS (2100 HSDPA). The HSDPA bit means you can download stuff at much faster speeds than normal 3G, as long as your local 3G network supports HSDPA.
The S60 web browser included with the 6110 is rather good as it includes support for viewing pages horizontally, so you don't have to scroll as much to read a page rendered in a PC-style.
This is my first experience with a GPS-enabled phone, and I have to say it's been brilliant. Whether or not this is particularly well-implemented on the 6110 isn't for me to say as I don't have much experience with GPS, but look out for a full review of the 6110 coming soon.
Using handheld GPS with a map pack for navigation has been a real joy, as wondrous and fun as sending and receiving your first ever text messages. Being able to press a button and instantly see where you are on a map and instructions on how to get anywhere else (and details of all places and services in the country) is something that almost anyone would find very useful indeed. This is definitely not a novelty product for technology fans, this is a product for absolutely anyone in the real world, and once the price of GPS technology drops far enough it seems absolutely certain we will see a GPS button on every single phone in the world. I don't say that lightly either, but this is such a useful concept with such universal appeal that I'm willing to make a very extreme prediction.
You can find much more detailed technical specifications for the 6110 Navigator on its Forum Nokia page.
Here's the box:
Krisse, 13 June 2007
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Categories: Hardware
Platforms: Series 60, S60 3rd Edition
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