Nokia prepping a GPS-capable sibling for the 770?

Yeah, we're still waiting for a WiMax-based, thumb board-sporting 770 successor, but until Nokia makes all of our wildest dreams come true in that fashion, it looks like they've got a cute little brother on the way to keep us occupied in the interim. About all we've got to go on so far is this fuzzy camphone pic, but the device purportedly rocks the SiRF Star III GPS chipset, along with a bit of audio and video codec support for entertainment purposes. In truth, the device bears much more of a resemblance to HP's latest iPAQ, the rx5900 Travel Companion, than the 770 line, but hopefully Nokia squeezed in some Linux and WiFi love to make it worth the effort. If it all proves to be legit, we could be seeing this little GPS unit by Christmas, so start saving that indeterminate amount of pennies!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 23rd 2006 6:33PM]

another stocking stuffer?

we need a kick ass, top ten, stocking stuffer list...my head is spinning




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[(Unverified) Posted Oct 23rd 2006 6:38PM]

yeah my news on engadget !!!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 23rd 2006 6:45PM]

Yeah sorry for the Fuzzy Pic from my Nokia N91 i'm in need for a better camera maybe the samsung NV7 for the relly nice Super Macro mode

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 23rd 2006 7:01PM]

LOL - of course! silly me ;)

picture is fine :)


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[johnny0 Posted Oct 23rd 2006 10:28PM]

ariel, do you by any chance know the size of the screen? the best part of the nokia 770 is the nice screen so it would be a shame to lose that

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 23rd 2006 10:32PM]

i don't know the size exactly but i think it's for sure less than 4 inches

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 23rd 2006 10:54PM]

just got the final specs of this PND and updated my news on http://www.blog-not.com/index.php?2006/10/22/263-pnd-nokia

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 24th 2006 12:12AM]

QVGA screen? That's really really too bad. I would have bought the 770 if they had used an SD slot instead of that RS-MMC slot they went with.

This device is close to perfect but the screen has less resolution than my 700p.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 24th 2006 12:13AM]

Hopefully they'll be releasing a 990 or 1010 or something that will keep the screen on the 770.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 24th 2006 4:57AM]

The original web page says that the 330 uses Windows CE.NET, so it's not really a 770 sibling (which uses Maemo, Nokia's Linux-based OS), but another product line entirely.

[jonberndt Posted Oct 24th 2006 4:37PM]

Nokia already has a navigation kit for the 770. However, I think it uses an external bluetooth GPS receiver...

http://www.europe.nokia.com/accessorieslink?s=770NavigationKit