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GPS Cell Phone

April 10th, 2009

GPS Cell Phone: Nokia 6210 Navigator


Executive summary of GPS cell phone reviews by Joseph Hanlon
Nokia 6210 is a nokia 6220 Classic successor of GPS cell phone. It has a larger 2.4-inch color display, which is important as a handheld personal navigation device. It features excellent horizontal and vertical viewing angles, so you won’t lose the image on-screen when you view the screen tilted on an angle of this GPS cell phone.

Nokia 6210 GPS cell phone has included six months free access to voice-guided navigation. When the GPS cell phone was first announced Nokia began espousing the phone’s specialty in pedestrian navigation, especially with regards to its internal compass. This compass rotates the on-screen map’s orientation, with an icon displaying true north, helping to better guide you to points of interest on the map like cafes and train stations. This GPS cell phone is much better suited to pedestrian navigation than to directing a moving vehicle.

When walking with this GPS cell phone we found it kept our location superbly, updating constantly as we moved along one street or another. In a car, with a much heavier reliance on routing, the GPS cell phone struggled somewhat, directing us along unusually complicated routes and even once guiding us to a street three or four blocks from our destination before proudly announcing that we had reached our destination.

GPS Cell Phone: Nokia 6210 Mobile Navigator

GPS Cell Phone: Nokia 6210 Mobile Navigator

The GPS cell phone feels solid while also being lightweight in our hands. The sliding mechanism feels slick and sure, and gives the feel of a premium quality GPS cell phone. It has a similar keypad to the 6220 Classic. The keys feel plastic-y and less tactile than a raised keypad and the top row of keys are awkward to thumb quickly when speed-typing text messages. Battery cover is made of rigid plastic and feels a little rough, to give the necessary friction when you slide the top half of the slider.


Nokia 6210 GPS cell phone has a 3.2-megapixel camera on the back. Unlike previous Nokia GPS cell phone releases, this camera doesn’t have a lens cover that keeps the phone flat and streamlined.

The Nokia 6210 GPS Cell Phone Specifications:

  • Dimensions 49 x 15 x 103 mm, Weight 117 gr
  • Display : 16 million Colors, 2.4?, 320×240 pixel
  • Connectivity: GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900, UMTS 850, UMTS 2100, GPRS, WAP, EDGE, 3G UMTS, HSDPA, GPS, Bluetooth with A2DP, 802.11b Wi-Fi
  • Camera: 3 megapixel camera, Led, 4x digital zoom, video capture.
  • Battery Live: 2.8 hours talk time, 231 hours standby time
  • Memory: 120MB internal memory, 1 GB memory card included, microSD
  • OS: Symbian OS Series 60
  • Others feature: FM Radio, Java, Mobile E-mail, Instant Messaging, Push e-mail, IM, Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF), Multimedia, Music, Smartphone, Imaging, etc

Prize: $383.98

The Nokia 6210 GPS Cell Phone Good Factors:

  • Solid Phone
  • Camera quality
  • GPS feature somehow works inside buildings
  • Music player better than average

The Nokia 6210 GPS Cell Phone Bad Factors:

  • Free access to voice-guided navigation only in 6 months
  • Texting interface and keypad & limited SMS features
  • Battery life

The Nokia 6210 GPS Cell Phone Bottom Line:

The Nokia 6210 GPS Cell Phone stand-out features are the Series 60 operating platform with its excellent suite of applications and speedy performance. But without a lifetime subscription to turn-by-turn navigation via Nokia Maps, this GPS cell phone feels neutered, robbed of what made it unique and leaves us asking why we should choose it over the 6220 Classic.

Reference: http://www.cnet.com.au/nokia-6210-navigator-339285935.htm

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GPS Camera Phone

March 31st, 2009

GPS Camera Phone: Samsung i560


The Samsung i560 3G GPS camera phone was first announced in October 2007 and first released in March 2008. This GPS Camera Phone is packed full of technology which provides the user with a high speed mobile device. This GPS camera phone works on a tri band network which covers GSM 900, 1800 & 1900. It had 150 MB of built in memory & expandable 512 MB MicroSD memory card. The user can enjoy a fully mobile Internet experience using the phones WAP 2.0 XHTML & HTML browser complete with RSS feeds facility.

The Samsung i560 3G GPS camera phone comes with a document viewer in popular formats including PDF files, Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint. The GPS navigation feature provides the tool to gives directions and the best possible routes to locations.

The Samsung i560 3G GPS camera phone has a 3.15 Megapixels camera with flash in, that also features settings allowing its users to adjust image outputs accordingly. While the integrated camera is for those quick still shots, a video recorder and player are housed by the Samsung i560, supporting video playback in MPEG4, 3GP, WMV, 3GP and H263 video formats.

GPS Camera Phone: Samsung i560

GPS Camera Phone: Samsung i560

The 3-megapixel camera phone was the surprise performer, taking some excellent outdoors shots, and not performing too badly inside some of the dark. Care does need to be taken to make sure you don’t move too much when hitting the shutter, but otherwise the pictures we took were colorful and sharp for the most part.


The Samsung i560 3G GPS Camera Phone Specifications:

  • Dimensions 103 x 51 x 16 mm, Weight 111 gr
  • Display : TFT 262K Colors LCD 2.4?, 240×320 pixel
  • Connectivity: Tri Band 900/1800/1900MHz GSM & 2100 UMTS with 3G HSDPA, GPRS and EDGE, GPS, Bluetooth with A2DP, USB
  • Camera: 3.15 megapixel camera with flash, camera setting, video recorder, Video Player (WMV, 3GP, H263 & MPEG4), Second Camera & 3G Video Calling.
  • Battery Live: 4.5 hours talk time, 360 hours standby time, Standard Lithium Ion rechargeable
  • Memory: 150MB internal memory, expandable 512 MB MicroSD in 1 microSD slot
  • OS: Symbian OS 9.1, Series 60 v3.1 UI
  • Others feature: FM Radio, Java MIDP 2.0, WAP 2.0 broser, RSS Reader, Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF), Music & Video player, Organizer, etc

Prize: $280

The Samsung i560 3G GPS Camera Phone Good Factors:

  • Phone speed
  • Navigation feature
  • Camera quality
  • Affordable prize value for GPS & HSDPA

The Samsung i560 3G GPS Camera Phone Bad Factors:

  • Battery life for heavy usage
  • Hard to take off battery cover
  • Quality of display is not as sharp as the previous Samsung versions
  • Difficult to install software & games

The Samsung i560 3G GPS Camera Phone Conclusions:

If you can get past its uninspiring exterior, then you’ll discover a powerful phone with some excellent features. For the asking price of $280 the Samsung i560 3G GPS Camera Phone is reasonably good value, especially when bundled with the map software and the car kit.

For comparison purposes, check out our review of other good quality camera phone: Samsung Memoir T929, Motorola Zine ZN5 and Sony Ericsson K850i

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