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mio H610 gets internantional design award

Sep 11, 2006 gps navigation, mio

Mio’s latest GPS device H610 has been awarded an International Design prize by the iF Design Committee, China.

The H610 is a stylish and lightweight handheld device (not a PDA!) with a 2.7 inch touch screen and comes with two inter changeable covers that can be used to reflect the owner’s outfit or mood.

H610 comes with the latest MioMap v3 navigation software and the latest maps of 24 European countries from Tele Atlas. The device also offers speed camera warnings, pedestrian and cycling navigation modes, etc.

The reason you can’t call H610 a PDA is because other than GPS navigation you can only use it for other time wasting activities such as photo viewing, playing games, listening MP3s (up to 17 hours of playback on one charge) and watching videos. No functionality to get serious work done.

But on the other side there are some useful extras such as WorldMate software pre-installed providing local information on weather, currency conversion in real time, measurements and dialling codes.

The H610 has the capacity of up to 1 GB of photos, music and or video in the internal memory; 4 GB more can be added with a standard SD/MMC card.

The H610 will be launched in Europe in October. As yet no pricing information is available.