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Australian consumers are embracing GPS navigation devices as rapidly as they fell in love with mobile phones and MP3 music players. No longer is a GPS device exclusively found in luxury cars: these days you can even buy mobile phones with receive...
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Expensive, but the features are packed in. Just note the lack of Wi-Fi and some strong iPaq competition.
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The MIO A701 is a jack of all trades device designed to replace your mobile phone, GPS unit and PDA. Sporting a touch screen but no keypad, the versatile A701 also boasts a 1.3 megapixel camera and both MP3 and video players.
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iMobile.com.au Updated: 2013-11-13 21:42:00
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Overview IntroductionFor most people Mio is a company that you’ve probably never heard of. If you’re an avid iMobile.com.au reader, you may have seen our future phones article on this handset, the Mio A701. Mio is a global company manufacturi...
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Zdnet.com.au Updated: 2013-11-13 21:42:00
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first take Mios A701 is a jack-of-all-trades handheld combining PDA and phone functionality, GPS navigation, a 1.3-megapixel camera, an MP3 player and a movie player.
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T3.com Updated: 2013-11-13 21:42:00
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This is smarter than the average smart phone. It runs Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 and has a built-in satnav, meaning you can get directions, sync your email, contacts, calendar - and even make phone calls, if you so wish.The supplied Mio Map softwar...
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In-built satnav, Bright screen, Great software, Decent size...
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Slightly sluggish response...
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A fantastic combination of smart phone and satnav.
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itreviews.com Updated: 2013-11-13 21:42:00
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PDA phone with built-in GPS route-mapping: In-vehicle navigation is becoming quite the thing, with the range of options available growing all the time. Unless you are super-rich you are probably going to be looking at one of two set-ups: a stand-alone sat...
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Satellite navigation is a must-have these days. Established brands like TomTom, Garmin, Navman and Magellan are being challenged by a wide range of companies. Mio was early to market with competing products and even its own route-planning software, alt...
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The Mio A701 disappointed me. I had high hopes that this was going to be a well integrated smart phone satnav solution, but it has too many little flaws. It's by no means unusable, but it needs to be tweaked quite a bit before I'd consider buying one...
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Great for those wanting more than just a phone with a supped up address book, but not looking to go down the full blown PDA route...
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Large screen, smaller than the others in the test, 1.3 megapixel camera, new SiRF Star III GPS receiver...
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GPS first phone second, no qwerty keyboard, no Wi-Fi...
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Great for those wanting more than just a phone with a supped up address book, but not looking to go down the full blown PDA route...
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zdnet.co.uk Updated: 2013-11-13 21:42:00
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The Mio A701 is a decent GSM/GPRS/GPS handheld with some nice features, although it lacks Wi-Fi. We aren?t the biggest fans of Mio Map, but you can buy this device without the navigation software and install another application.
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Relatively small for a device with both an integrated mobile phone and a GPS receiver, Some well thoughtout user interface elements, Available with and without navigation software...
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Lacks WiFi and infrared, Postcode navigation is not sevendigit, Battery life could be longer...
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The Mio A701 is a decent GSM/GPRS/GPS handheld with some nice features, although it lacks Wi-Fi. We aren’t the biggest fans of Mio Map, but you can buy this device without the navigation software and install another application...
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LordPercy.com Updated: 2013-11-13 21:42:00
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Ah convergence the dirty word of consumer electronics, it is banded around more times than a tarts calling card and yet never seems to amount to much. Now finally we have in our mitts a real example of converging technology the Mio A701 GPS Smartphone...
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pdagold.com Updated: 2013-11-13 21:42:00
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Todays addition to the list of reviewed products is Mio DigiWalker A701 by Mio Technology. The device combines a simple GSM/GPRS module and a sensitive SiRFstar III GPS receiver. The list of main features includes a powerful processor and sizeable me...
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Convergence devices like PDAPhones or GPSPDAs have been gaining a lot of attention lately with the apparent demise of "simple" PDAs but how about taking it one step further with GPSPDAPhones ? The HP hw6515 and Eten G500 paved the way and now comes th...
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