Nokia 500 Auto Navigation Video

Nokia 500 Auto Navigation Video Transcript

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>> Hi, I'm Bonnie Cha, Senior Editor at CNET.com and today we are taking a First Look at the Nokia 500 Auto Navigation system. Now this is the second GPS we've looked at from Nokia and it's a big improvement over the first one, but I still wanted to the -- over a Garmin or a Tom Tom and I'll tell you why in a few minutes. But I'll start off with some good things. First it has a nice bigger 4.3-inch screen, so that's nice. And it's got some new navigation software, it's Nokia Max actually. And it's pretty good, but again not as streamed lined or easy as to use as a Garmin or Tom Tom. They've moved some of the shortcut buttons down here and it's easy to use to increase your volume and decrease your volume and you've also got a menu shortcut here as well. Also, it's got integrated Bluetooth, so you can use it as a hands-free speaker system. And the car charger has an integrated traffic receiver, so you can receive up-to-date traffic information. It's also got text-to-speech functionality, so it actually speaks street names when giving you audible directions.

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>> And overall, it's got some good performance. It was actually a really solid performer. The thing I really didn't like about this is the interface that I talked about earlier. It's just -- it's kind of hard to find things and turning addresses requires extra steps. Some other tools aren't organized very well, so it's hard to find them and the proper folders are where you think they would be. So, that and the fact that it's $500 makes me a little uneasy to buy this right now. It's an improvement, but again I would probably go with some of the other competing products first. I'm Bonnie Cha and this has been your First Look at the Nokia 500 Auto Navigation. ^M00:01:37 [ Music ]