Mio Digiwalker A501 PDA Phone Reviewed
by Sze | Filed under GPS, Mobile Phone, Smartphone
TrustedReviews has done a review on the Mio Digiwalker A501, a GPS-enabled PDA phone. The Mio Digiwalker A501 is powered by a TI OMAP 850 201MHz processor, 64MB RAM, and 128MB ROM. It comes with a 2.7-inch QVGA LCD display, a 1.9 Megapixel camera, Bluetooth and a SD/MMC card slot.
The A501 features the SiRFstar III GPS chipset for GPS navigation.
TrustedReviews says:
Mio’s A501 is a reasonable stab at melding both smartphone and sat-nav. It has a touch-screen, which mobile phones with sat-nav bolted on generally don’t, and it’s also smaller than most PDA phones with GPS. If you truly don’t want to be bogged down with yet another gizmo when popping out and about, it’s worth considering for these features alone – especially as the driving guidance is so good.
Overall, though, there are just too many other flaws for a wholehearted recommendation. The screen’s too reflective, the software slightly laggy and the phone itself isn’t the prettiest or the most fully featured. And if that lot doesn’t put you off maybe the £334 price tag will.
Take one technological gizmo into the car? Not me – I’m sticking with two.
Features: 8/10
Performance: 6/10
Value: 6/10
Overall: 7/10
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