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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...
In-built satnav, Bright screen, Great software, Decent size...
Slightly sluggish response...
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...
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...
Large screen, smaller than the others in the test, 1.3 megapixel camera, new SiRF Star III GPS receiver...
GPS first phone second, no qwerty keyboard, no Wi-Fi...
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.
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...
Lacks WiFi and infrared, Postcode navigation is not sevendigit, Battery life could be longer...
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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