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I 've worked now for a short period with Navicore 2007 software on Nokia 770. My first conclusions are that it is very useful navigation software for car navigation. It is less suitable for navigation for walking or cycling. But that's not unique. It's about the same as for all other car navigation software since the maps of Tele Atlas don't have enough cycling routes and are lacking detail especially when you want to walk in natural environments. Besides some hickups in the GPS location (no fluent stream) when you walk constantly with the Nokia GPS unit in your pocket it is real fun to walk with this combination in towns. You can easily find Wifi access points in 20 European countries and you can browse to several websites which are linked under points of interest.



The compact form factor of the Nokia 770, the nice screen and because it's so easy to slide it into sleeping modus and a quick start and fix when you are opening it again are very nice for walking purposes in cities. A small complaint is that the unit can react sometimes a bit slow by lack of memory (when you put many programs on your Nokia 770). This leads to a time consuming swapping to and from the mcc card. I expect Nokia will put more memory in a next version. When they can combine that with let's say the keyboard the Psion 5Mx had, Nokia will have a supergadget that will attract lots of people. But all those people who just want to surf and navigate don't have to wait for that. Especially now Nokia is selling their Nokia 770 in combination with a complete navigation kit (with a solid carholder, 1 gigabyte mmc DV, SIRF 3 GPS and the ported Navicore 2007 software) for a quite attractive price of 499 euro. More info about nokia 770 + navigation kit.
And at last here a link when you want to read another short
review of the Navicore navigation software on Nokia 770



Last edited by Tipper; 2006-12-06 at 22:58.