Nokia have announced the Nokia 810 Internet Tablet. Building on its previous Internet Tablets, the new 810 offers a number of extra features that makes this one start to make sense. For a start, it's got a keyboard, where the old Nokia 800 only had stylus input. More importantly, Nokia have also equipped it with GPS and full mapping software.

The old Nokia Internet Tablets never really knew what their purpose was. They were designed for Web browsing, but came with a poor Web browser, poor text input, and only Wi-Fi support - no 3G or any other mobile protocol, meaning if you were outside of a Wi-Fi hotspot, you couldn't actually use it as an Internet Tablet.

Although the new Nokia 810 still only comes with Wi-Fi (why they don't bundle it with HSDPA super-3G is beyond me!)!, Nokia have now added a GPS receiver, tonnes of maps and a variety of points-of-interest all fully loaded. You can even upgrade to Wayfinder's voice navigation service and so turn the Nokia 810 into a complete GPS Sat-Nav unit, both for the car and for personal use.

The addition of GPS finally gives Nokia's Internet Tablet a purpose beyond Wi-Fi hotspots. With the addition of a keyboard and a good Web browser (Mozilla), which supports both AJAX and Flash 9 (enabling you to view YouTube videos straight out of the box), the Nokia 810 works as a perfectly capable extremely portable Internet Tablet.

Add GPS to the mix and you also have a well designed, attractive, and competitively priced GPS device as well that also plays videos, music, and which supports 10GB memory cards.

The new Nokia 810 Internet Tablet is yet more evidence of Nokia's push into the GPS space, being its third GPS device it's released in the last six months. Watch out for more Nokia GPS phones coming soon.