Nokia 330 GPS Navigation System coming to America
By Stefan Constantinescu on Thursday, March 29th, 2007 at 9:59 AM PST In Financial/Corporate News
OK, you heard it here first: the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) 330 portable navigation system is headed for the United States. We got a little heads-up from Nokia tonight that it’s going to announce the U.S. availability of the Nokia 330 Auto Navigation unit tomorrow with an expected ship date of April. It’ll come preloaded with Navteq maps and features a 3.5-inch touch screen, turn-by-turn, voice-guided directions, and multimedia capabilities (music and video player and image viewer). You know, pretty much like every other portable in-car GPS device out there. Will it offer any compelling reasons to fork over $499 for the unit?
I’m waiting for an Internet Tablet with GPS built in. Why buy one device that does one thing?
$499 is kind of insane considering the fact that you can get a Nokia N95 for only $100 – $200 more.
I agree with you completely. Even $400 is a bit pricey, in my opinion. Does anyone else think it’s odd that the new 6110 Navigator and now this 330 both DON’T run Smart2Go?
Could be just a time to markets issue. In the case of 330 in particular, which was announced quite a while a go and been on the market in Europe for a while now.
Convergence devices are great, but a good single function device almost always beats them in that one function. So does this. 330 has a bigger screen, probably much faster/stronger GPS connection, touch screen.. Have not really compared, but I think the price is more or less in line with that of other dedicated GPS car navigation sets from other manufacturers?
Does it have an option for commercial truck and bus? If not, recommend me some. Thank you.