http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/ Engadget Comments for Garmin announces the nuvifone http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 30th 2008 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 30th 2008 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 30th 2008 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/
I bet the user interface stinks of tasteless, committee-design though. It's nice to see some competition for the iPhone space, but I think I'll hold onto mine for now. It's also worth noting that HSDPA doesn't necessarily mean the browsing will be way faster (or even faster at all) than the iPhone's. We've all seen those other comparison videos, they are an eye opener, a lot more things go into stopping web browsing from sucking than just the radio chip.]]>Jan 30th 2008 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/]]>Jan 30th 2008 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 30th 2008 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/]]>Jan 30th 2008 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 30th 2008 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 30th 2008 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/They'll cry like the first time you discovered there was no Santa Claus. ]]>Jan 31st 2008 12:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/
Wait, what? You realised he didn't exist more than once?]]>Jan 31st 2008 5:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/]]>Jan 30th 2008 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 30th 2008 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/
Go be a fanboy elsewhere.]]>Jan 30th 2008 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 31st 2008 2:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 31st 2008 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 30th 2008 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/
Oh, and so far it looks less that stellar.]]>Jan 30th 2008 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 31st 2008 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/daddy daddy!
what son?
i heard overtime a bell rings an iphone rip off is created!
hmm that must be true because heres the nuvi phone!]]>Jan 30th 2008 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 30th 2008 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/daddy daddy!
what son?
i heard overtime a bell rings an iphone rip off is created!"

No, son, that bell is when someone rips of the LG Prada. Now get the hell out the way, you're blocking the TV!]]>Jan 30th 2008 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 30th 2008 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 30th 2008 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/
Hit me back in 3 years when this comes out. Till then I will keep updating my iPhone.]]>Jan 30th 2008 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/
They said, "Garmin has just announced its new iPhone-like smartphone" they were implying, as any typical apple fanboy would, that this is some lame copy of the iPhone, but as I said, I would rather spend my money on this than a locked down iPhone. And no, I don't have a lot of money to throw around that is why I wouldn't buy a iPhone, that's to expensive and can't even send a mms...

Besides, it seems like everybody as an iPhone... I'd rather have something WAAAAYY better like an M700.]]>Jan 30th 2008 11:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 30th 2008 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/
Is this a prank by Arnold Kim at http://www.macrumors.com?

]]>Jan 30th 2008 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 30th 2008 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 30th 2008 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 31st 2008 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/
It looks *nothing* like an iPhone apart from the fact that it has, err, a big screen with few buttons: just like, say, the Sony Clie TH55 of four years ago.

And inside it has a ton of functionality that the iPhone lacks, so why do you have to keep on and on and on bringing up bloody Apple products in totally unrelated articles?

It's fanboydon gone feral, I tell you!]]>Jan 30th 2008 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 30th 2008 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/


The same way every all in one computer is in some way, shape or form compared to the iMac. Yeah, the iMac may not be the best all in one, or the first, but it is the most well known and most often compared to. Same with the iPod. That's just life. Realize it and move on.]]>Jan 30th 2008 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/I'm not going to call this a copy of the iphone, but do you think it would even exist if it wasn't for the iphone? That goes for many other touch screen phones as well.]]>Jan 30th 2008 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 30th 2008 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/
This is really starting to remind me of all the people who called the Creative Nomad a cheap iPod knockoff.]]>Jan 30th 2008 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Will it play doom?

there now we have that out of the way!!]]>Jan 30th 2008 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/But i guess touch screen phones are just the new flip phones.]]>Jan 30th 2008 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/
Of course the iPhone has had a hand in the development of this - were it not for the iPhone, Garmin would probably never have thought to have produced a GPS-phone. But, that aside, I think you're wrong, I don't think the iPhone's design has anything to do with the design of this, not in any way, be it specific or more generalised.]]>Jan 30th 2008 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/
But man, could they have made an UGLIER phone? Here's hoping they scrap the entire outer casing before this sucker makes it out the door.]]>Jan 30th 2008 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 30th 2008 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/
In fact, I still really like it.

But the problem is, I have an iPhone now. While the Nuvi does GPS+SatNav far better than any phone I've ever seen (including the iPhone, obviously), the iPhone has just made the Nuvi interface and touchscreen feel about 20 years behind the times. When I first got it, it wasn't high tech or low tech, it just was. Now it feels so dated.

Hopefully this Nuviphone interface is much better.]]>Jan 30th 2008 11:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 30th 2008 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/
By the way, can't blame it for being ugly. Even their GPS units are hideous.]]>Jan 31st 2008 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/Jan 31st 2008 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/"were it not for the iPhone, Garmin would probably never have thought to have produced a GPS-phone"

Um.......see this release from 2001!!


http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/index.php?duty=Show&id=2866&trv=1]]>Jan 31st 2008 4:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces-the-nuviphone/
Jared Lorz
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