Mio A701 GPS Mobile Phone
December 14, 2008
Mio A701GPS Smartphone Mobile Phone is all about an ingenious combination. The celebrated combination of a PDA style GPS mobile phone with MioMap V3 software. This mobile phone from Mio is a Windows smartphone, for it runs the Windows Mobile 5.0 OS. This GPS smartphone further offers a Triband GSM network enhancer that entitles it to function in a good number of countries around the globe. However, the communication download part looks a bit weak, as it is exclusively a GPRS smartphone, considering most of today's smartphones flaunt 3G, or even super 3G (HSDPA).
This GPS smartphone comes driven by an Intel Xscale PXA270 processor of 520MHz clock speed. Its 2.7” screen is one aspect that undoubtedly excels, with a display resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. This TFT LCD screen of 65K colours does well to combine with its smart operating system to present a good number of MS applications like Word, Power Point, Excel, etc. This mobile phone is backed by a ROM of 128MB, RAM of 64MB, 92MB of on board memory, apart from the 512MB SD card, in which the maps come.
The entertainment sector of this mobile phone is lead by a 1.3MP camera that offers 8 x digital zoom. It records video in WHV and H.263 formats. The playback of the video here, refers to H.263, WHV and MPEG4. This GPS smartphone also presents an MP3 player too, with the scope to realise the latest WMP 10. Bluetooth is offered by this mobile phone to carry out wire-free device to device data transfer.
The main part of this mobile phone is definitely its navigation part that is promptly supported by the integrated SirFStar III chipset of this mobile phone. Although, this mobile phone can be bought without the MioMap software, this would not be a sensible move, if one is in look out for a mobile phone to navigate. The map software refers to either European maps or exclusive maps of the UK and Ireland. Numerous POIs added here comes handy in quick finding train-underground stations, restaurants, parks, meuseums, ATMs, fuel stations, post offices, etc. 3D map vision is also enabled in this device.
Finally, Mio A701GPS 1.3MP Camera Mobile Phone that comes with the dimensions of 107 x 57 x 18.8mm, sports a 1300 mAh rechargeable battery that offers 4 hours talktime and 200 hours standby. This phone weighs 148 grams.
