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The Fujitsu Siemens Pocket LOOX N100 is a hybrid portable GPS and PMP device that has a striking resemblance to the Taiwanese Mio DigiWalker with perhaps the slightly more streamlined design going the Japanese way. The 2.8-inch touchscreen interface is also .1 inches wider than the H610. The Pocket Loox’s 89 x 51 x 15 mm form factor also gives it a slight advantage over the very pocketable 87 x 60 x 22 mm of the H610. Pocket Loox has a suggested price of $499, which puts it at the same range as the H610. But, and this may be a first in the history of technology, the Japanese Pocket Loox got a bad rating from CNET for being sluggish and for the overall bad performance of its GPS.

More Fujitsu Siemens Pocket Loox N100 specs after the break.

The Pocket Loox N100 has 64k colors on its 2.8 320 x 240 pixel touchscreen. The touchscreen is a little sluggish too. It uses the SiRFstarIII GPS chip and Navigon’s MobileNavigator 6 software. It comes with a complete map of the U.S. and Canada preloaded in a miniSD card. Routing options include pedestrian, bicycle and slow car mode. Supports multi-stop mapping, automatic route recalculation, speed alerts, simulated demos, text and voice turn-by-turn directions. Mapping supports 2D and 3D graphics, and the Navigon software have a good points of interest (POI) database.

The Fujitsu Siemens Pocket LOOX N10’s media playing specifications: WMV files for video (embedded conversion application converts other video formats); MP3, AAC, and WMA for audio; MP3, AAC, and WMA image files.

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