Nokia took the veils off several mobile phones capable of GPS and Maps 2.0 Beta. One of those handsets was the Nokia 6210 Navigator. Unlike the 6220 Classic, the 6210 Navigator arrives with an embedded compass for the sake of pedestrian navigation.
Upside
At 103×49x14.9 mm, the Nokia 6210 Navigator isn’t either the slimmest or the smallest of the handsets, though it is still considerably a lot thinner than its earlier 6110 Navigator that had measured around 20mm at the thickest point.
Design-wise, there aren’t any surprises as the Nokia 6210 Navigator is a very simple phone. Our only found-fault is with its tight headroom present above the top of the numeric keys. Apart from that, the controls are considerably large and offer reasonably tactile feedback even in case of the prototype unit.
The accelerometers in the mobile phones aren’t new these days. We have seen it deployed in few of the recent Sony Ericsson and Nokia handsets, though each and every company might have a different variation in the implementation of technology. On the Nokia 6210 Navigator, besides measuring the changes in orientation and direction, the accelerometer is used to snooze the alarm and silence the phone.
The Maps 2.0 software still is in the beta stage, but other than making more advancement in the pedestrian navigation (that probably makes much sense to a phone when compared with the in-car device), the application even gives the users the choice to purchase the multimedia city guides along with enriched photos, audios and videos streams. Other features of the Nokia 6210 Navigator include the A-GPS support, 3.2-mega pixel camera (an enhancement from 2 mega pixels on 6110) with an integrated LED flash, Bluetooth stereo A2DP, HSDPA connectivity, besides being a complete 3rd Edition S30 device.
The 2.5 mm audio jack is present at the top of the handset so that your headset will not protrude from the sides while the phone is in the pocket. We noticed that the microSD and micro-USB expansion card slots contained mechanical “doors” for pulling them out. These seemed to be little too stiff
Downside
We like the navigational devices to be equipped with big screens, so we a bit disappointed to see that the Nokia 6210 Navigator has only a QVGA 2.4-inch display. This isn’t so much of the downside but it is a preference. The other misses noted are a micro-USB in place of the more general mini-USB and the 2.5mm port for audio which means needing an adapter for the third-party headset. Although these are minor points, these might pose as potential deal-breakers.
Outlook
It’s pretty easy to let go of the integrated compass as the novelty, but if gone one step further, implementation of a feature as such is actually not the far-fetched idea. We don’t see the GPS-enabled phones replacing the dedicated in-car units anytime soon, so that it makes sense that the features are tailored to the non-vehicular tracking. That is where the 6210 makes the decent proposition.
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