Advantages: Built-in GPS, 500Mhz Processor, Touchscreen Disadvantages: Sometimes crashes, camera is awful
After recently owning a SPV C500 smartphone from Orange and a bluetooth GPS unit, I decided that an ideal secondary task for a mobile phone would be a GPS unit with TomTom. When I heard that there was a mobile phone coming out that was not only a fully featured smartphone but also had a built-in GPS unit, I was quick off the mark to get one on a contract from Vodaphone.
The unit comes installed with Windows Mobile 2005 (not to be confused with ...
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Advantages: Fast GPS system and compact sizse for a PDA Disadvantages: Supplied flash ROm version is buggy. Update now available though
All in all a great phone. The build supplied on my phone prior to version R65 flash ROM from the internet support site was buggy. New version is much improved though and has yet to crash! It took long enough for the release to fix the initial teething problems! Significantly faster boot time with new upload. A great phone however, let down by its 1.3 MPixel camera which is poor and a lack of infra red. However it does fit in the pocket unlike most ...
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08.11.2006
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The new Mio A701 PDA Phone is powered by a 520MHz Intel XScale PXA270 processor and has 64
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MB RAM and 128 MB ROM. It features a 2.7-inch full-color QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) TFT screen, SDIO expansion slot, and a built-in 1.3-megapixel digital camera. ...
The new Mio A701 PDA Phone is powered by a 520MHz Intel XScale PXA270 processor and has 64 MB RAM and 128 MB ROM. It features a 2.7-inch full-color QVGA (240 ...
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