Nokia prepping a GPS-capable sibling for the 770?

by Paul Miller, posted Oct 23rd 2006 at 6:20PM

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!

Filed under: GPS, Handhelds

Tags: 770, breaking news, BreakingNews, gps, nokia

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johnnyjuan @ Oct 23rd 2006 6:33PM

another stocking stuffer?

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

http://surprisebag.blogspot.com/

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Ariel @ Oct 23rd 2006 6:38PM

yeah my news on engadget !!!

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Ariel @ 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

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johnnyjuan @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:01PM

LOL - of course! silly me ;)

picture is fine :)

http://surprisebag.blogspot.com/

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John Tang @ 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

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Ariel @ Oct 23rd 2006 10:32PM

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

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Ariel @ 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

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Brian @ 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.

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Brian @ Oct 24th 2006 12:13AM

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

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Ross @ 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.

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Jon Olsen @ 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

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