The Mio A701 smartphone runs Windows Mobile 5.0.

The device is stylus-driven, as there are no number keys and it lacks a QWERTY keyboard. It comes with a GPS satellite navigation system. The Guardian finds “Overall this is a solid integration of a GPS system into a mobile.” Link .

Mio A701 Smartphone Reviews

Infosync reviews the Mio A701, and finds that while it has some nice touches, it is mostly a GPS phone: “Unfortunately, the A701 is a GPS phone not only first and foremost but also mostly. Its use of Windows Mobile 5.0 holds potential for business use, but use as such is severely limited due to the lack of necessary buttons for one-handed navigation and a thumbboard, rendering it best suited for viewing and not editing data. Furthermore, although the A701 performs well with regard to voice calls, the tri-band GSM/GPRS setup is looking distinctly dated with regard to data transfer speeds.” Link.

RegHardware reviews the Mio A701 and is not very impressed with the phone at all. From a camera that’s not very good, to hefty battery use while using the GPS feature, to slow updating maps, the overall conclusion was, “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.” Link.

Trusted Reviews reviews the Mio A701, and comments, “On a standard battery test involving continuous playback of MP3 tunes with the screen forced to remain on I got a total of six hours 36 minutes of battery life. That’s about on a par with other Windows Mobile 5.0 devices I’ve seen, and almost identical to the E-TEN G500. … During navigation the speaker of the Mio A701 was loud and clear. The supplied car mounting gear includes a swan-neck style mount with solid plastic holder for the A701 itself, and cigarette lighter power cable. The Mio A701 is also supplied with a stereo headset, belt-clip style case, mains power adaptor, PC connection cable and spare stylus.” Link.

ITReviews reviews the Mio A701 and found it performed well: “Generally, the Mio A701 performed well enough on test. Its battery managed to churn out more than six and a half hours of continuous music with its screen forced to stay on to push it rather harder than you might in everyday use. When you are using it in a vehicle it will be powered by the supplied cigarette lighter charge cable. For voice calls it isn’t a great deal bigger than a mobile phone to hold to your ear.” Link.

Lordpercy has a review of the Mio A701 and writes, “Overall the Mio A701 GPS Smartphone is quite a convincing package, we like the styling and converged applications, the GPS is good although not prefect and the PDA features are whatever Windows packages in 5.0. Downsides are the relatively low battery life and occasional software lock up and then there is the overall bulk of which is a fairly beefy Smartphone.” Link.