While the Nokia 6710 Navigator isn’t the highest-profile phone around, it’s probably the best GPS phone package available today. That’s right, you are more than likely better off choosing it over competitors, such as the Garmin-Asus Nuvifone and the HTC Cruise.
It can handle most any type of location-based feature you need, with its hardware trio of a GPS radio, a compass and an accelerometer. GPS controls are great, especially with the dedicated Maps button and the zoom bar. It comes bundled with a lifetime license of Nokia Maps 3.0, giving you guided navigation right out of the box, along with a suction stand (for the dashboard) and a car charger. The software is pretty good, with detailed map coverage, although the license doesn’t come with the extra features (e.g. traffic updates).
What makes the 6710 a particularly great package, however, is that it’s a solid phone even without the GPS features. Running on a 600MHz ARM 11 processor, it’s exceptionally fast for a Symbian handset. Build is solid and the 2.6-inch display is bright and crisp (although some of you may be turned off with the relatively smaller size).
As a phone, the 6710 offers great voice reception. Even better, they made sure the speakerphone was topnotch, allowing you to use it in-car even without using Bluetooth. Messaging is complete – SMS, MMS, IM (Ovi Messenger is preinstalled) and email (almost every protocol and platform imaginable, except Blackberry Connect, is supported).
It’s pretty heavy on the features end. You get a 5.0 megapixel camera module with good quality, XpressMusic-level audio quality, full HTML browsing with expansive Flash support, Wi-Fi and 3G speeds.
Overall, the Nokia 6710 Navigator is one of the Finnish company’s best releases of late. If you can live with the smaller screen, it should as the best hardware to spend that cash you’ve been saving up for a GPS-phone.
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