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Nokia 500 4.3'' Portable GPS Navigator with Bluetooth

Nokia 500 4.3'' Portable GPS Navigator with Bluetooth
From Nokia

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Product Description

Navigate on course and in touch with a great traveling companion offering a clear view, turn-by-turn instructions, handsfree calls, and in-car entertainment. Stay on course with turn-by-turn voice guidance combining Nokia Maps and an internal SiRF Star III GPS receiver. Get a clear view with the intuitive Nokia interface, large 4.3" touch screen, 2D/3D maps, plus visual exit numbers and sign posts. Communicate with excellent Bluetooth handsfree functionality, and digital signal processing (DSP) for echo cancellation and noise reduction. Download your own phonebook, voice dial, and manage your calls from a compatible device. Take time out from your travel to enjoy music, movies, and photos with memory cards up to 16 GB. Or, listen to your tunes through your car stereo with the integrated FM transmitter. 2D / 3D Map view Split Screen with additional information also visible in other menus - next maneuver, current speed, estimated arrival time and remaining distance Visual signposts Voice instructions including street names Bluetooth 2.0 with Handsfree Profile v. 1.5 Phonebook Download in background (Phonebook Access Profile 1.0 plus additional methods to support wide range of cellular phones) / Up to 2000 Phonebook entries, 5 numbers each Store and play videos from the memory card in MP4 Store and view photos from the memory card JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF Store and play music from the memory card in MP3, AAC, eAAC+, WMA Navigate on course with turn-by-turn voice guidance - combining Nokia Maps, and an internal SiRF Star III GPS receiver Unit Dimensions - 4.8 x 3.4 x 0.9 inch


Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #2433 in Consumer Electronics
  • Brand: Nokia
  • Model: 02702Z1
  • Dimensions: 7.80" h x 4.13" w x 9.00" l, 5.00 pounds
  • Display size: 4.3

Features

  • Stay on course with turn-by-turn voice guidance combining Nokia Maps, an internal SiRF Star III GPS receiver, and integrated real-time traffic information in selected countries.
  • Get a clear view with the intuitive Nokia interface, large 4.3" touch screen, 2D/3D maps, plus visual exit numbers and sign posts.
  • Communicate with excellent Bluetooth handsfree functionality, and digital signal processing (DSP) for echo cancellation and noise reduction.
  • Download your own phonebook, voice dial, and manage your calls from a compatible device.
  • Take time out from your travel to enjoy music, movies, and photos with memory cards up to 16 GB. Or, listen to your tunes through your car stereo with the integrated FM transmitter.

Customer Reviews

Good product but needs a few more improvements4
Let's set the price aside for a minute and judge the product on its own. It has a large screen and is absolutely loaded with excellent features such as text to speech, blue tooth phone connection and voice command, FM transmitter, MP3 and video player, traffic report. On their own, these are great features.

On the weak side, here are the problems: when you turn it on it may take 4 minutes to get a GPS signal. When you try to zoom using the + and - on the zoom bar sometimes it mistakes them for "drag" and changes the location instead of zooming, which is very annoying. Every part of the face of the product is touch sensitive either because of the buttons or the screen. So you can't hold the product in a way that your finger tips would touch the front part or you may inadvertantly select an unwanted menu item.

My two biggest problems with this thing were the fact that no matter how hard I tried I could not make it skip toll roads from its propopsed route. It completely ignored the instruction to exclude toll roads even though there were easy toll-free alternatives available which I could see on the map (and did in fact take). The problem with the toll roads is not all of them have a toll plaza or exact change. You end up on one of those without the change or a transponder you may incur a large penalty. Yikes. My second problem was the fact that when announcing the precise turns it's about 2 seconds too late. You'd have to be driving very slowly not to miss a turn when it announces it which is not a practical thing when driving on the freeway. For the most part I learned to live with this as I relied on the earlier announcements such as "turn right in 1/2 mile" instead of the precise moment of turn. But on a number of occasions when driving in Miami which has many roads intersecting at the same spot we missed the correct turn because it wasn't obvious which one of the 3 "rights" to take.

Despite those flaws, I'm going to keep this product because overall it has enough nice features. I'll need a second one in a while so I'll make sure that one would have all these features and none of the flaws.

Feature packed.5
I've looked at many GPS's at this price and more, but didn't find anything this feature packed at this price. Have only used it a few times so far, but liked the night screen setting, live ETA calculation (to help you arrive on time), next turn listed at the top of the screen, accuracy (for roads and turns), and is less annoying about having to recalculate the route when you venture off on newer roads. So what if it's not qwerty (I'm not texting) or two hour battery (most of the time you use it plugged in to your car) or you have to look up additional POI's on the internet first and input them as a destination (it has the rest areas and hotels and important stuff). So far, I have no complaints. (Well, there was an insert that explained that the U.S. lags behind the E.U. with the FM traffic system. What else is new. It will eventually come. We invested in that 'Smart Highway System' in Orlando.) Reviews on other sites said there are maps of Europe, Asia, South America, etc. on the CD(that I haven't verified yet). All in all, it pretty much does all that I need it to do, and then some; especially for the price!

great buy4
Used only a few time but worked flawlessly. Could be a little more user friendly


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