Nokia 6710 Navigator deals & review

Overall

If you find yourself using your current phone´s mapping and navigation functions more often than you´d expected, or if your phone has nothing like that and you realise you need it, then the 6710 Navigator could be just what you need. There´s simply no better phone out there for this kind of thing. Featuring a screen large enough to display Nokia´s wonderfully simple maps as clearly as possible, and all the localised information and pre-loaded maps you could hope for, you´ll never, ever get lost again!

Specs

• S60
• Symbian OS version 9.3
• Dimensions: 104.8 x 50.1 x 14.9 mm (L x W x T)
• Weight: 117 g
• Display: 2.6 inch QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) outdoor optimized display
• 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and high quality flash
• High speed Internet access (HSDPA/HSUPA and WLAN)
• 3G
• Bluetooth
• Nokia Web Browser 7.1
• Portrait and landscape view gaming
• 50 MB user memory, support for up to 16GB microSD
• BL-5F 950mAh battery
• Talk time (maximum): GSM (900) 7 h, WCDMA (2100) 4 h
• Standby time (maximum): GSM 380 h, WCDMA 380 h
• Video playback time VGA 15fps (maximum): 8 h
• Video call time (maximum): 2 h 36 min
• Music playback time (maximum): 26 h
• Energy efficiency: power save mode, ambient light sensor, unplug charger reminders, High Efficiency Charger AC-8 in box.

Navigation Features:

• Built-in GPS: Nokia Maps 3.0 with integrated GPS, Assisted GPS (A-GPS) support
• Integrated compass pedestrian guidance
• Access to locations, maps and routes with Navigator key
• Maps support in Calendar, Contacts and Gallery
• Zoom area for easy browsing and easy zooming of maps and images
• Drive and Walk navigation included with premium content such as real time traffic information, current weather, POI content etc.
• Regional maps preloaded on the device
• Navigation ready to use without SIM-card
• Full voice-guidance

Details

As you can see from the list above, the 6710 ticks just about every possible box when it comes to the mapping and navigation features included as standard. Probably the most useful (and most used) will be the pedestrian guidance system. This allows you to plan out turn-by-turn routes for you whether you´re in the city, park land or anywhere else. The highly detailed maps will not only direct you along roads and streets, but also walkways through fields and anywhere else designated as suitable for pedestrians. This feature also works in conjunction with the integrated digital compass, meaning that even if you get confused and start spinning around, you´ll always know which way you´re facing and can quickly get back on track.

The phone can also be used in cars and other modes of wheeled transport, a feature made especially useful thanks to the included car holder that comes with every handset. Although the screen might not be as big as some GPS navigation systems out there, it´s still plenty big enough to keep half an eye on where you´re going, and will be particularly useful if you´ve someone in the passenger seat.

All this mapping goodness comes of course through Nokia Maps, here in v3.0. If you´ve never used it before you´re in for a treat, because it´s about as simple, intuitive and easy to learn as you could hope for.

Aside from all this, the 6710 is also a more than decent phone in its own right. With a 5MP still camera, video recording capabilities, a music player and very decent web browsing options, you´ll find yourself using this with pleasure even when you´re not trying to find your way home.

Conclusion

Although, as the name suggests, this phone prides itself on everything it can do to help you find your way through the world, the 6710 shouldn´t be dismissed as nothing but a mapping phone. It more than holds its own in just about every other function it offers to.

So, if you need mapping navigation in your life regularly, then look no further. If you need them only occasionally, then this could still well be a very decent choice for you indeed.