| Nokia 6710 Navigator | Price and description | | | Publish date: 04 November 2009 by Michael Joubert | | Recommended Retail Price R5499 | Description The lifelong subscription to the Maps Drive navigation service you receive with the Nokia 6710 is excellent, and so too is the availability of maps for overseas destinations. Read our complete Nokia 6710 Navigator review. |
Recommended Retailers No retailers have added their price for this product. The Tech Breakdown The Good The Bad The Conclusion Lifelong subscription, overseas maps, carkit Screen too small, very particular about the area when searching Although Maps 3.0 is quite extensive, the Navigators screen just feel that tad too small to really feel comfortable using it incar. | | User Comments | [Page 1 of 1]  1 |  | Posted by NewGuy | | | | | Just a few points regarding Nokia Maps. You can display maps in landscape mode, in fact every screen on this phone can be displayed in portrait or landscape mode due to the built in accelorometer. This needs to be activated in the device settings: Menu<Settings<Settings<General<Sensor Settings<Sensors On The screen rotation is snappy. Personally I don't find the 2.6" inch a problem because I prefer to listen to the voice guidance instead of looking at the directions on screen (might as well get Google Maps then), which rather defeats the point of having the lifetime licence. And anything more than a 3" screen on a cellphone is overkill anyway. The search is annoying though. I had the same problems looking for a street in Moreleta Park, and in Benoni as well. The solution there I found was using the Post Code instead and that found the streets fine. | |
| Posted by NewGuy | | | | | And just some corrections to the specifications: 1. Document viewing is possible with QuickOffice 5. Editing however is only possible after upgrading the software (for a costly $40). The phone also supports email attachment viewing and sending support for word, excel, powerpoint files, and PDFs. 2. TV Out is most definitely supported, Nokia don't provide the cable. 3. Sadly it only comes with a 2GB car in South Africa 4. Video calls are supported, depends on your network | |
 | Posted by mikej | | | | | Hi NG Thanks for the help, corrections noted in article and tech specs! Cheers, Mike | |
| Posted by Hein - Centurion | | | | | I am very happy with my GPSphone - the Nokia 6710. Bit hard on battery life but a car charger solves the problem. Finding streets also a bit difficult. Glad to see about the Lifelong subscription, wasn't told about it. Cheers Hein | |
| Posted by SPAWN | | | | | I don't know why Nokia made searching for a street so difficult. When I had my old 6110 navigator & searching streets was as easy as pie. The maps in that phone was so easy, I don't know why they changed it. Maybe what Nokia should consider doing in their menu options is adding postal codes you can see on the visual map so when you're searching for a street on your latest version of 'maps' you don't have to go out of the application, go on the internet, research what the postal code is for that area then go back into maps and type in the street you want with newly found postal code. ***just a thought Nokia*** God bless, Rowan. P.S. I'm an events rep, anybody have a change of job for me or can recommend somewhere for me to apply? This recession is killing my family. | |
| Posted by Johnny | | | | | The Nokia 6710 is the worst phone I have ever had and I have had alot. I also had the 6110 and I had no problems with it. The 6710 has been replaced three times and repair sevral times, still using my old 6110 waiting for my working 6710. They seem to be replaced with a worse one every time. It is a common problem with this model but nokia will not recall, I don't know why! Stay clear of the 6710 or Nokia for that matter, terrible service and a very unreliable product and company. Previuosly very fond of Nokia, NOT anymore. | |
| Posted by Jay | | | | | @ Johnny. Are you sure its Nokia that is the problem or you? | |
| Posted by DMH | | | | | Nope, Johnny is right.. major zooming problem, across the board, across the world.
This site seems to have a fix: www.blog.syafril.com/?p=186 using MagicKeys to get around the zoom bar | |
| Posted by David | | | | | Dear All.
I wrote the following message to Nokia - think it is self-explanatory (ok, I my phone is actually the 6710 -my mistake).
David
Message to Nokia sent on 18 June 2010:
Dear Nokia.
I have always purchased Nokia cell phones (since 1998) believing your phones to be of superior quality and recently I purchased a Nokia 6700 Navigator slide phone.
However, from day one I have been extremely disappointed and had to send the phone in for repairs to the software after I wanted to pull out all my hair from frustration due to it malfunctioning.
The only reason I bought the phone is due to my need for a phone with fast data transfer capabilities. However, compared to my old 6235i, this phone is extremely user-unfriendly, lacks half the features (e.g. no stopwatch or countdown timer, no reminder repeat function, no smiley graphics for sending sms etc.), has a terribly insensitive touchpad and a pathetic calendar setup (if you set a few to-do reminders on the same day, these all become grouped together and are hidden from view). I could go on and on and on.
This phone makes me wonder just what you were thinking when you designed it - as the end-user, I think you failed dismally.
Please design phones in the future with the end-user in mind -and, remember that there are still millions of folk out there who just want a phone with a couple of added features like camera and fast internet connection - don't try to cram every feature imaginable into one phone - you h | |
| Posted by David | | | | | Here follows the rest of my comment/message:
...... you have proven that it doesn't work.
The big question now is, what do I do with this awful phone? It is too late to return it - any advice, please ?
Thanks.
David | |
| Posted by alan | | | | | Could someone please clarify this statement from the review above :
"Also remember that the device uses data during operation for its mapping."
Does this refer to when downloading the maps, or when simply using the GPS? What I'm trying to get at is am I being charged for using the GPS?
| | | | | Posted by | | | | | Hi Alan
When you are using maps any map data that did not come preloaded is downloaded from the network, but there are no cost involved in just using the GPS. aGPS will cost you a little bit at start-up since it also uses data to establish your position.
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