Nokia 6110 Navigator

This is the new Super Gadget slider phone from Nokia that has GPS Navigation apart from other cool features. As camera find its place in every phone in the market, GPS is the next must have feature thats going to revolutionize the mobile phone market. Nokia 6110 uses Smart2Go softare for GPS-Navigation and seems to be superior to the one used in Nokia N95. All you need to do is, input your destination and the 6110 will automatically do the complex calculation of building your route to your destination with aplomb. The most admirable is the voice navigation (comes pre-installed with various voices - male/female and some language packs), so that you don't even have to look at the phone in case you are driving and if you missed a turn, the 6110 automatically rebuilds an alternative route to your destination. Its a good phone to have, especially for those couples who argue on the car over directions.

Some of the drawbacks of this phone are that the keypads seem very hard and at times look unresponsive (but you will get used to it). There is no wireless or infrared on board the 6110 and it does not support Stereo Sound on bluetooth headsets. The slider is hard to respond (Nokia claims this an incorporated feature so that the phone doesn't accidently open, starting another function while navigating in a car) and the sales package doesn't come with a car mounting kit. Inspite of all these, I still feel its a good phone to have, but the 6110 seems to be overpriced near to $600.

Now lets look at the good sides of this phone. Its a stylish 3G phone with a sharp bright screen (QVGA with 16 million colours), sporting a GPS-functionality stand-alone key on the front panel for easy GPS access. The mirror layer for the display makes it easy to see the display even in the sun and the handset also has a light sensor to adjust the backlighting based on the light conditions. Every single 6110 user would say that this phone has a superb sound quality and the volume of the back speakers are really good. This 6110 has 2 cameras, a 2M pixel camera with a shutter (the camera can be activated by opening the shutter) in the back and a 3G camera in the front. The phone allows a microSD card memory addition facility. Some good features of the 6110 are that it has an image editor and a video clip editor. I also liked the "Active Notes" feature on this phone, which helps you to make notes for a person in your contact list and when that person calls you, the notes will appear on your screen. Cool, rite? TTS (or Text to Speech) is another cool feature on the 6110. It reads out all your sms's, although it might sound really funny at times. I would have prefered a touch-screen for easy navigation, but then thats too much to ask for. With the Christmas season around the corner, one would be tempted to get one for yourself or as a gift. Who knows, maybe this year even Santa Claus might be using a Nokia 6110 to navigate from North Pole to your house.