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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Nokia E90, Communicator with GPS
Review of GSM/UMTS-communicator Nokia E90 shows the E90 to be a natural evolution of the 9500 and previous Communicator models.
Here's what Mobile-review had to say about its GPS functionality (not overly positive):
'GPS-navigation. I want to make a note here that for this device the GPS-navigation feature is somewhat useless, but on the whole in this mode it lives for about 2,5-3 hours.'
'GPS-navigation. For a communicator, addition of GPS-receiver appears to be a soft of running-in of future technologies, attempt to keep up with the times, rather than a vital need. It is really interesting to read on various resources articles praising Nokia E90’s navigation front, conclusions that in this sense it is on a par with Nokia N95 and thanks to a bigger internal screen looks preferable for checking maps. It is good and smooth, if only all this refers to artificial environment of Nokia E90 – in a pocket of its tester. In real life, the limitations of Nokia E90’s GPS-navigation use outweigh its undisputable draws.'
Part of the reason they think so is that due to the flip screen it's very hard to use it as a car navigator.
Apart from GPS it seems to be a good evolution step, with a large landscape display (800 by 352!) and alphanumeric keypad, making browsing and messaging way less painful than what you experience on most other advanced phones.
Here's what Mobile-review had to say about its GPS functionality (not overly positive):
'GPS-navigation. I want to make a note here that for this device the GPS-navigation feature is somewhat useless, but on the whole in this mode it lives for about 2,5-3 hours.'
'GPS-navigation. For a communicator, addition of GPS-receiver appears to be a soft of running-in of future technologies, attempt to keep up with the times, rather than a vital need. It is really interesting to read on various resources articles praising Nokia E90’s navigation front, conclusions that in this sense it is on a par with Nokia N95 and thanks to a bigger internal screen looks preferable for checking maps. It is good and smooth, if only all this refers to artificial environment of Nokia E90 – in a pocket of its tester. In real life, the limitations of Nokia E90’s GPS-navigation use outweigh its undisputable draws.'
Part of the reason they think so is that due to the flip screen it's very hard to use it as a car navigator.
Apart from GPS it seems to be a good evolution step, with a large landscape display (800 by 352!) and alphanumeric keypad, making browsing and messaging way less painful than what you experience on most other advanced phones.
