Nokia 500 GPS is a Smart Holiday Buy this Year
The Nokia 500 GPS 4.3" Touchscreen Auto Navigation is the best gift buy this year. Navigate on course and in touch with a great travelling companion offering a clear view, turn-by-turn instructions, handsfree calls, and in-car entertainment. Stay on course with turn-by-turn voice guidance combining Nokia Maps, an internal SiRF Star III GPS receiver, and integrated real-time traffic information.
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Get a clear view with the intuitive Nokia interface, large 4.3" touch screen, 2D/3D maps, plus visual exit numbers and sign posts. Communicate with excellent Bluetooth handsfree functionality, and digital signal processing (DSP) for echo cancellation and noise reduction. Download your own phonebook, voice dial, and manage your calls from a compatible device. Enjoy music, movies, and photos with memory cards up to 16 GB. Or, listen to your tunes through your car stereo with the integrated FM transmitter.
2D / 3D Map view Split Screen with additional information also visible in other menus - next maneuver, current speed, estimated arrival time and remaining distance Visual signposts Voice instructions including street names Bluetooth 2.0 with Handsfree Profile v. 1.5 Phonebook Download in background (Supports a a wide range of cellular phones)
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User Review >>More Reviews<<
This is the third GPS, I have bought so far. I have used Tom Tom and Garmin before but this is the BEST one among the three. Nokia 500 GPS has everything which you can think of. I guess only the one thing, which is missing is Remote Control....:-) which can give control to somebody who is sitting back in your car and person at the back can change the destination or route while you are driving the car but I believe there is NO GPS which comes with remote control at this time. Nokia 500 GPS provides preloaded North America Maps with 2 GB SD Card, Bluetooth for cell phone, FM Transmitter, Media Player - Audio & Video, 4.3" wide screen, Easy buttons and controls on screen and panel, Immpressive mount for holding GPS unit, Carrying case, USB and Car charger and above all it is very user friendly. Nokia simply rocks...Worth buying this product! Nothing is better than this!
Key Navigational Features >>More Features<<
- Visual Guidance and Voice Guidance
- 2D / 3D Map view
- Split Screen with additional information visible in menus: next maneuver, current speed, estimated arrival time and remaining distance
- Visual signposts
- Voice instructions including street names
- Address (Look-ahead search)
- Phonebook
- Favorites
- Home, Work
- History
- Point of Interest Search
- Interactive POIs (call POIs)
- Average Speed Limit Warning
- Map Browsing Mode
- Offline Planning
- Different Routing Options
- Outgoing calls
- From Phonebook (compatible devices)
- Voice dialing support
- Favorites
- Call Stacks
- Number dialing
- Call POIs (from Navigation)
- Ring tone from phone, internal ring tone selectable
- Caller ID
- Call waiting: Accept, reject or toggle between calls
- Bluetooth 2.0 with Handsfree Profile v. 1.5
- Phonebook Download in background (Phonebook Access Profile 1.0 plus additional methods to support wide range of cellular phones)
- Up to 2000 Phonebook entries, 5 numbers each
- In-call options: microphone mute, send DTMF tones
- Echo Cancellation with internal DSP for excellent audio quality
- Music Player
- Music to car stereo through FM Transmitter
- Runs in background during navigation
- Automatic fade during navigation instruction
- Store and play music from the memory card
- Formats: MP3, AAC, eAAC+, WMA
- Store and play videos from the memory card
- Formats: MP4, 3GP
- Play, pause, track forward/backward
- Store and view photos from the memory card
- Formats: JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF
- Full-screen view
- Slide Show
Destination Selection
Others
Handsfree Communication Features
Incoming calls
Bluetooth
Others
Multimedia Features
Video Player
Photo Viewer
Protect Your Child With GPS
Losing your child out in public is every parent worst nightmare. Today's technology can help ease the parents mind.
There is nothing more terrifying to a parent than to be out with their child when all of a sudden, they turn around, and their child is gone. Let's not forget that a child's mind goes astray when they have seen something of interest and they go to explore it. It's easy for them to get separated from the parent, such as being at a carnival, and although it may only take two seconds to locate your child, it feels like two years and when you do find them your heart is racing, your hands are shaking and you don't know whether to hug them or scold them.
The possibility of someone abducting our child is a real fear every parent carries with them all the time. Just pick up a newspaper or watch the evening news and reports of children being kidnapped or abducted are constant and the heartbreak of the parents is just so overwhelming. Now what if there was a technology that could find that child instantly. Well, rest assure, there is!
GPS (Global Positioning System) technology is now being used to help keep track of children and allow parents to know where their child is at all times. These devices are usually small enough to fit anywhere-backpack, pants or coat pocket, etc. and lightweight enough not to be burdensome. Some of these have pre-programmable buttons so the child can keep in touch with their parents or call for help if necessary.
These devices range from tracking devices that will beep until the child is found, to cell phones with GPS technology installed, to watches that if forcibly removed will automatically activate. There are even backpacks available with GPS technology installed. Some of these will activate if the child is too far away from the parent. And there is even one that is implanted in a shoe.
Of course the main problems with these are the child is going to lose them, or if the child is abducted they can easily be disposed of. I can envision the day when it will be possible to have a GPS transmitter implanted in a child via an injection or some other simple manner.
There are other concerns also. Are only children with parents who can afford this technology are going to benefit. Is this going to increase the number of lower class children, whose parents can't afford this new technology, being abducted? Will someone, such as a child molester or kidnapper, find a way to use a child's transmitter signal to locate the child? Also how are our children to adjust to the fact that they are constantly being monitored?
How secure are our children going to feel knowing that the world is so dangerous that their parents need to know where they are at all times? Are we stripping a part of their childhood away from them? Who doesn't remember, as a kid, going somewhere you knew your parents didn't want you to go, but as children we are adventurers, and if we got into trouble or got 'caught' being where we shouldn't be, we more than likely not only got punished but also learned a lesson. We grow and mature by making mistakes and learning from them, are we going to take part of this education away from our children? At what age do we stop? Do we continue to monitor them through their teen-age years? A time that can be the hardest time of any child's or parents life, it's a time where a teenager needs to mature and a parent needs to learn to 'let go' and allow the child to learn on their own-mistakes and all.
Although this technology has some very great qualities in the protection of our children, the possibility of abusing this technology must also be addressed. We all want our children to be safe, yet at the same time they must be allowed to grow to become functional adults.
There is nothing more terrifying to a parent than to be out with their child when all of a sudden, they turn around, and their child is gone. Let's not forget that a child's mind goes astray when they have seen something of interest and they go to explore it. It's easy for them to get separated from the parent, such as being at a carnival, and although it may only take two seconds to locate your child, it feels like two years and when you do find them your heart is racing, your hands are shaking and you don't know whether to hug them or scold them.
The possibility of someone abducting our child is a real fear every parent carries with them all the time. Just pick up a newspaper or watch the evening news and reports of children being kidnapped or abducted are constant and the heartbreak of the parents is just so overwhelming. Now what if there was a technology that could find that child instantly. Well, rest assure, there is!
GPS (Global Positioning System) technology is now being used to help keep track of children and allow parents to know where their child is at all times. These devices are usually small enough to fit anywhere-backpack, pants or coat pocket, etc. and lightweight enough not to be burdensome. Some of these have pre-programmable buttons so the child can keep in touch with their parents or call for help if necessary.
These devices range from tracking devices that will beep until the child is found, to cell phones with GPS technology installed, to watches that if forcibly removed will automatically activate. There are even backpacks available with GPS technology installed. Some of these will activate if the child is too far away from the parent. And there is even one that is implanted in a shoe.
Of course the main problems with these are the child is going to lose them, or if the child is abducted they can easily be disposed of. I can envision the day when it will be possible to have a GPS transmitter implanted in a child via an injection or some other simple manner.
There are other concerns also. Are only children with parents who can afford this technology are going to benefit. Is this going to increase the number of lower class children, whose parents can't afford this new technology, being abducted? Will someone, such as a child molester or kidnapper, find a way to use a child's transmitter signal to locate the child? Also how are our children to adjust to the fact that they are constantly being monitored?
How secure are our children going to feel knowing that the world is so dangerous that their parents need to know where they are at all times? Are we stripping a part of their childhood away from them? Who doesn't remember, as a kid, going somewhere you knew your parents didn't want you to go, but as children we are adventurers, and if we got into trouble or got 'caught' being where we shouldn't be, we more than likely not only got punished but also learned a lesson. We grow and mature by making mistakes and learning from them, are we going to take part of this education away from our children? At what age do we stop? Do we continue to monitor them through their teen-age years? A time that can be the hardest time of any child's or parents life, it's a time where a teenager needs to mature and a parent needs to learn to 'let go' and allow the child to learn on their own-mistakes and all.
Although this technology has some very great qualities in the protection of our children, the possibility of abusing this technology must also be addressed. We all want our children to be safe, yet at the same time they must be allowed to grow to become functional adults.
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What is a GPS?
How does it work?
The Global Positioning System (GPS) tells you where you are on Earth.
It's eleven o'clock ... do you know where your kids are? Would you like to? One way to track them would be to have a GPS receiver installed in the car! The GPS, or Global Positioning System, is one of the hottest technologies around, and no wonder. Consider these diverse uses:
Minnesota scientists use GPS to study movements and feeding habits of deer.
Surveyors used GPS to measure how the buildings shifted after the bombing in Oklahoma City.
GPS help settle property disputes between land owners.
Marine archaeologists use GPS to guide research vessels hunting for shipwrecks.
GPS data has revealed that Mt. Everest is getting taller!
GPS answers five questions simultaneously:
"Where am I?"
"Where am I going?"
"Where are you?"
"What's the best way to get there?
"When will I get there?"
GPS is the only system today that can show your exact position on the Earth anytime, in any weather, no matter where you are!
Development: Like so many other high-tech developments, GPS was designed by the U. S. military. The concept started in the late '60s but the first satellite wasn't launched until February 1978. In 1989 the Magellan Corp. introduced the first hand-held GPS receiver. In 1992 GPS was used in Operation Desert Storm. On March 1996 the President decided to make GPS free for civilian users.
System Description: GPS has three 'segments'. The space segment now consists of 28 satellites, each in its own orbit about 11,000 nautical miles above the Earth. The user segment consists of receivers, which you can hold in your hand or mount in your car. The control segment consists of ground stations (five of them, located around the world) that make sure the satellites are working properly.
Civilian Use:
At first, the military did not want to let civilians use GPS, fearing that smugglers, terrorists, or hostile forces would use it. Finally, bowing to pressure from the companies that built the equipment, The Defense Department made GPS available for non-military purposes, with some restrictions. On May 1, 2000, President Clinton lifted the restrictions, and announced that the option to degrade civil GPS signals during emergencies would be phased out by 2010. The federal government is committed to providing GPS technology for peaceful uses on a worldwide basis, free of charge.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) tells you where you are on Earth.
It's eleven o'clock ... do you know where your kids are? Would you like to? One way to track them would be to have a GPS receiver installed in the car! The GPS, or Global Positioning System, is one of the hottest technologies around, and no wonder. Consider these diverse uses:
Minnesota scientists use GPS to study movements and feeding habits of deer.
Surveyors used GPS to measure how the buildings shifted after the bombing in Oklahoma City.
GPS help settle property disputes between land owners.
Marine archaeologists use GPS to guide research vessels hunting for shipwrecks.
GPS data has revealed that Mt. Everest is getting taller!
GPS answers five questions simultaneously:
"Where am I?"
"Where am I going?"
"Where are you?"
"What's the best way to get there?
"When will I get there?"
GPS is the only system today that can show your exact position on the Earth anytime, in any weather, no matter where you are!
Development: Like so many other high-tech developments, GPS was designed by the U. S. military. The concept started in the late '60s but the first satellite wasn't launched until February 1978. In 1989 the Magellan Corp. introduced the first hand-held GPS receiver. In 1992 GPS was used in Operation Desert Storm. On March 1996 the President decided to make GPS free for civilian users.
System Description: GPS has three 'segments'. The space segment now consists of 28 satellites, each in its own orbit about 11,000 nautical miles above the Earth. The user segment consists of receivers, which you can hold in your hand or mount in your car. The control segment consists of ground stations (five of them, located around the world) that make sure the satellites are working properly.
Civilian Use:
At first, the military did not want to let civilians use GPS, fearing that smugglers, terrorists, or hostile forces would use it. Finally, bowing to pressure from the companies that built the equipment, The Defense Department made GPS available for non-military purposes, with some restrictions. On May 1, 2000, President Clinton lifted the restrictions, and announced that the option to degrade civil GPS signals during emergencies would be phased out by 2010. The federal government is committed to providing GPS technology for peaceful uses on a worldwide basis, free of charge.
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