Nokia 6110 Navigator - Production Model Preview Unboxing

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The Nokia 6110 Navigator, an S60 smartphone with built-in GPS and maps, is finally available in the shops. AAS takes a look at the European Sim-Free package.

Unboxing the Nokia 6110 Navigator

The 6110 Navigator is a Symbian S60 3rd Edition FP1 smartphone with a built-in GPS receiver and comes bundled with detailed maps of your part of the world as well as a less detailed map of the entire world.

The 6110 features the now-standard QVGA (240x320) screen, and has a 2 megapixel camera with flash and lens cover. It supports Quadband GSM (850/900/1800/1900) and 3G WCDMA/UMTS (2100 HSDPA). The HSDPA bit means you can download stuff at much faster speeds than normal 3G, as long as your local 3G network supports HSDPA.

The S60 web browser included with the 6110 is rather good as it includes support for viewing pages horizontally, so you don't have to scroll as much to read a page rendered in a PC-style. 

This is my first experience with a GPS-enabled phone, and I have to say it's been brilliant. Whether or not this is particularly well-implemented on the 6110 isn't for me to say as I don't have much experience with GPS, but look out for a full review of the 6110 coming soon.

Using handheld GPS with a map pack for navigation has been a real joy, as wondrous and fun as sending and receiving your first ever text messages. Being able to press a button and instantly see where you are on a map and instructions on how to get anywhere else (and details of all places and services in the country) is something that almost anyone would find very useful indeed. This is definitely not a novelty product for technology fans, this is a product for absolutely anyone in the real world, and once the price of GPS technology drops far enough it seems absolutely certain we will see a GPS button on every single phone in the world. I don't say that lightly either, but this is such a useful concept with such universal appeal that I'm willing to make a very extreme prediction.

You can find much more detailed technical specifications for the 6110 Navigator on its Forum Nokia page.

 

Here's the box:

 

Nokia 6110 Navigator box

Here's what's in the European sim-free box, and there's also an unpictured microSD card included inside the phone (sales packages may vary if you buy it in a different region, or if you buy it through a network operator):

 Nokia 6110 Navigator - what you get

Here it is with the keypad closed:

Nokia 6110 Navigator - keypad closed

Here it is with the keypad open:

Nokia 6110 Navigator - keypad open

Here's the back (note the camera lens cover is closed):

Nokia 6110 Navigator back with cover closed

Here's the back with the lens cover open:

Nokia 6110 Navigator lens cover open

Here's the back with the keypad open:

Nokia 6110 Navigator back with keypad open

The main feature of the 6110 Navigator is of course the GPS. The built-in GPS software provides many different options for using the data provided by the GPS receiver.

Here's the raw data on the satellite signal strength:

Nokia 6110 Navigator GPS signal strength

Here's the positions of the satellites in the constellation:

Nokia 6110 Navigator satellite constellation

You can use the built-in map software to find useful places such as people's addresses, restaurants, fuel stations, local museums etc. The software can also provide car and pedestrian routes to these places from your current location.
Here's an Indian restaurant in Helsinki for example:

Nokia 6110 Navigator GPS indian restaurant

When you put the software into navigation mode, it uses a 3D display by default but you can view this in 2D as well if you wish:

Nokia 6110 Navigator in GPS navigation mode

You can see a video of the Nokia 6110 Navigator in action and some high resolution photos on the 6110 page at the Nokia Duck blog.

Krisse, 13 June 2007