N70 and N80 Downfall

[firebird]

Hi all,
Don't know about you guy's but the big downfall with the N70 and the N80 series is the bluetooth connectivity.

Here in U.K. many of us use smart phones as our GPS Navigation.
Tomtom is the favourite.
The better Nokia was the 6630, No connectivity probs. at all. Runs all day, No one will have the N70 or the N80 series.
It appears that Nokia have upgraded the phone system structure, without giving further thaught to the processor. Now they are just asking too much from the original processor, and something has to suffer.

 

[kingrob]

Most people seem to use Windows Mobile devices, like the HP iPaq, i-Mate & E-Ten - it's got built-in GPS navigation.

 

[3gmac]

Hi all,
Don't know about you guy's but the big downfall with the N70 and the N80 series is the bluetooth connectivity.

Here in U.K. many of us use smart phones as our GPS Navigation.
Tomtom is the favourite.
The better Nokia was the 6630, No connectivity probs. at all. Runs all day, No one will have the N70 or the N80 series.
It appears that Nokia have upgraded the phone system structure, without giving further thaught to the processor. Now they are just asking too much from the original processor, and something has to suffer.

The Nokia N70 & 6630 do both run the same 220Mhz ARM-9 CPU, but the N70(which I own) is known to have several bugs in it's Software which have not yet all been fixed. I have never used those GPS devices but I do not think it should put to much of a load on the CPU - the most likley fault is in the phones firmware.