NaviGadget

Nokia 330 is one of the few devices from Nokia that doesn’t include a cell phone. It is mostly dedicated to satellite navigation as well as additional features such as playing audio and video files. It shows your images too.

The French just posted an extensive review complete with pictures. Here are the important bits as translated automatically to English:

The PND Nokia 330 cannot use at the same time its functions multi-media and at the same time its function of navigation GPS. Having a chip SiRFStar III, it will be possible to use it behind an athermic windshield while it integrates a software of navigation GPS Route 66 Navigate 7.

This software already proved reliable and makes it possible for example to be assisted by a vocal guidance at the time of navigation GPS, the whole via an interface in 2d or 3d. The calculation of routes is however rather slow while the principal design features of the software enables him to return a traditional address as addresses destination. Indeed, where the other GPS require to initially return the name of the country, the city, the street and the number of street, the PND Nokia 330 makes it possible to return the whole in only one field text.

For the remainder, the program manages alarms of proximity of radars, alarms of going beyond speed and finally makes it possible to be arreté to return to the initial interface of the PND in a click. Lastly, navigation GPS is fluid, even in 3d, while its principal weak point thus relates to its computing time of a route, even short, which can take up to 10 seconds.

It should be noted that Nokia 330 has an average sensitivity GPS, making it possible to collect a sufficient number of satellites GPS before functioning, the whole in approximately 10 to 20 seconds. At exit of carpark, the time of D acquisition of the GPS remains however rather long.

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