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Mio Technology

owned brand of MiTAC Digital Technology Corporation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ619369
Source-derived summary

Mio Technology Corporation (Chinese: 宇達電通股份有限公司), a subsidiary of MiTAC International Corporation, is a Taiwanese electronics maker that manufactures and markets pocket PCs, personal digital assistants (PDAs), smartphones and personal navigation devices (PNDs). It sells products under the "Navman" and "Mio" brands.

Mio Technology currently has operations in Taiwan, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. Mio Technology is among the world's top three personal navigation device vendors, which also includes TomTom International BV and Garmin Ltd. Currently they make car and bicycle navigation units and dashboard cameras.

Products

Several Mio DigiWalker (C720t, C520 and C320) and Mio Moov (A470, A430, 370, 360 and 300) devices include traffic message channel (TMC).

Portable car navigation

C7xx Series: C710, C720, C720t, C728

C5xx Series: C510, C510E, C520, C520t

C3xx Series: C310, C310s, C310x, C310sx, C320

C2xx Series: C210, C210s, C220, C230, C250

The new range is the Mio Moov and the Mio Moov Spirit.

Mio Moov range: Moov 150, Moov 200, Moov 210, Moov 300, Moov 310, Moov 330, Moov 360 (EEU only), Moov 370, Moov 500, Moov 510, Moov 550, Moov 580

Moov Spirit range: Mio Moov Spirit S300 (S305), Mio Moov Spirit S500 (S505) and (S555), Mio Moov Spirit TV (V505) and (V735)

Spirit 2010 Range: Mio Spirit 470, Mio Spirit 475, Mio Spirit 575.

There were variants produced for spot deals and limited runs.

Spirit Range 2011: Mio Spirit 380, Mio Spirit 480, 485, 486, Mio Spirit 680 Archived 2011-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, 685, 686, 687, 688

Spirit Range 2013: Mio Spirit 490LM, 495LM, 497LM, Mio Spirit 695lm, 697lm, 697LM with truck routing features Archived 2014-04-02 at the Wayback Machine

PDA navigation

DigiWalker series (especially 168 and 180)

Axx Series: A201

Pxx Series: P350, P550, P360, P560

GPS PDA Phone

Axx Series: A501, A502, A700, A701, A702

Handheld navigation

Hxx Series: H610

Smartphones

8xxx Series: 8380, 8390

Mio A700/A701

This model was one of the most popular Mio-branded products, since at its launch in 2006 it was one of the few on the market that combined GPS functions with a GSM phone.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Mio Technology” as owned brand of MiTAC Digital Technology Corporation. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Technology, owned and brand.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2011, 2013, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Technology, owned and brand providing the first useful test.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q619369. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from Mio Technology” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.