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With integrated A-GPS, Nokia Maps 2.0, car navigation and a compass for pedestrian guidance, the Nokia 6210 Navigator ensures you’ll find your way in no time from anywhere in the world.

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    This is the area the Nokia 6210 Navigator truly shines. Nokia is very generous to package it with maps of a few Asia countries. More can be downloaded for free using the Nokia Map Loader software. (Though the Drive and Walk feature is only for a limited trial period of 6 months). I can imagine the convenience I would have enjoyed if I had the Nokia 6210 Navigator with me when I was in Taiwan the previous month. I could have walked around the cities without holding on to maps and printouts. It is quite dangerous when people know you aren’t local. The Nokia 6210 Navigator is a great tool for people who travel or backpack a lot and like to have a basic map in their mobile phone and not having to incur data charges to view maps online. Furthermore, with the built-in accelerometer, Nokia Maps rotates automatically such that it is constantly in the direction I am facing. Nice feature!
    From: Chi Siang
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    Having used TomTom, Garmin and Magellan standalone GPSes prior to trying out the Nokia 6210 Navigator, I would say that it compares well to a budget standalone GPS. The navigation key is appropriately located and lights up prettily when in navigation mode. It gets you where you need to be with clear voice-delivered directions, flat or bird’s eye viewing options as well as a night mode function. I certainly wouldn’t mind the same system for my car (of course in a wider screen with a proper mount). The easy accessibility of the search function adds to the user friendliness of the navigator. Data transfer at about 35kb for a loading map within Singapore translates to about 50 cents per route loaded with a limited use GPS data plan. The current map selection however, combines Singapore and Malaysia, which unfortunately translates to many irrelevant hits in a search. One advantage of Nokia Maps is its very decent satellite signal reception, which functions well in areas where skyscrapers abound. Anyone who has experienced the confusion of indecisiveness with a GPS which has lost its satellite signal in Shenton way, KLCC or Downtown Manhattan, would truly appreciate the Nokia 6210 Navigator. The phone also acquires the GPS signal and loads a route relatively quickly as compared with a standalone GPS. Detection when a wrong route is taken as well as the subsequent route recalculation similarly happens quickly. Three interesting details in pedestrian navigation mode are especially useful whilst on foot. The phone incorporates a built-in magnetic compass and keeps track of the route you have taken, allowing you to retrace your steps to return to a roadside store, carpark, or other point of origin. In addition, the accelerometer technology (G sensor, for the techy people) integrated into the Nokia 6210 Navigator allows the user interface to rotate in accordance with the direction the user is taking, ever so useful to people like me, who rotate their paper maps according to the direction they are taking. I must really say that these 2 features are absolutely brilliant.
    From: Ben Khoo
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    Eager to try out the navigation capabilities, I was disappointed that the phone took quite a while to get a fix with AGPS turned off. Even when the fix was eventually acquired, I realised that navigation does not work under offline mode as it needs to verify the validity of the license. But upon insertion of the SIM card, everything went fairly well and I was pleasantly surprised with the ease of looking at the maps with the new built-in compass, which made navigating as a pedestrian a totally new experience, without having to do the orientation manually.
    From: Andrew Ng

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