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All Nokia phones to get GPS

6110 We've had a brief go with Nokia's 6110 mobile phone, one of the first consumer phones to sport GPS. The software comes from Route 66 and it zooms and pans smoothly.

Although the N series have started to get GPS (see N95 review), Nokia is apparently aiming to put GPS into every one of its phones in the future, according to Route 66's account manager for Britain, Mike Goodenough. He told us "Nokia's goal is to be at the top of navigation", bar none.

In essence we'll see GPS in everyday mobile phones - even pay as you go cheapies. It's another selling point in the great mobile phone upgrade push. The downside is, of course, that it'll batter battery life. GPS can be turned off though and it's a damn sight more efficient than using a separate GPS dongle and using Bluetooth for the two to talk.

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