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Nokia 330 GPS Navigation System coming to America

By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, March 29th, 2007 at 9:59 AM

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OK, you heard it here first: the Nokia 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.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Ricky Cadden

    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?

  • viipottaja

    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?

  • Andrey

    Does it have an option for commercial truck and bus? If not, recommend me some. Thank you.