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I wonder who will win the aftermarket app support contest first. True, Apple will release the SDK, but how "open" will it be? Will Garmin follow Apple's "locked down" culture?

I really like thier Nuvi navi units, so let's see how this turns out. I bet they'll nail the cellular reception on their first phone attempt, unlike Apple. ]]>Jan 30th 2008 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 30th 2008 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=145]]>Jan 30th 2008 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 30th 2008 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/
No wonder they didn't have time to finish the software/firmware on the Colorado before they put it on sale. ;-)
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If you're still confused, see this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_phone
And this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone]]>Jan 30th 2008 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 30th 2008 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 31st 2008 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 30th 2008 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 30th 2008 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 30th 2008 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 30th 2008 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Feb 13th 2008 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 30th 2008 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/
Basically this is an iPhone for iPhone haters. You trade in itunes for a GPS, get a nice screen, decent form factor, and 3G. ]]>Jan 30th 2008 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 30th 2008 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 30th 2008 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/It's not an iPhone copy.
The design has nothing to do with the iPhone.
Get over it.]]>Jan 30th 2008 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/
iTunes syncs everything automatically: music (smart playlists FTW), podcasts, contacts, mail, calendar, video, pictures, etc. It also backs up your phone on each sync.

Dragging and dropping some MP3 files like you would with a flash drive is a huge step backwards for iPhone users.]]>Jan 31st 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/I'm probably in the extreme minority here, but I absolutely hated that before 1.1.3 the only way to get songs on/off my iPhone was to sync it through iTunes. It meant I had to set up and keep track of a specific iPhone playlist in iTunes just to get tunes on/off my phone. The whole reason I jumped on 1.1.3 as soon as it came out was the ability to manually manage my music on the device. I never really used playlists that much on my iPod either though.]]>Jan 31st 2008 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 30th 2008 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 30th 2008 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 30th 2008 11:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 31st 2008 2:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/
It looks simple and elegant.]]>Jan 30th 2008 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/
...

...is a Garmin?!

What the eff? Is this the Twilight Zone??]]>Jan 30th 2008 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 30th 2008 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 30th 2008 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 30th 2008 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/
What that points to is a car mount -- perfect! How awesome is that, a phone that has its own car mount and then can be used as a nav system. I love the car mount+hardwire for my Nuvi, but it's a pain to fish my iPhone out of my pocket to take a call (though I usually use my Jawbone). This is like the best of both worlds.]]>Jan 30th 2008 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Jan 30th 2008 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/
No mention of video support.
HSDPA + GPS + fairly slim = lousy battery life.
No mention of internal storage.
No mention of internet browsing (might have missed this).
Proietary OS based on other Nuvis = not going to be an open software platform.
Probably no cool eye candy effects like iPhone google maps page curl.

Despite that list, I still think this is a great product - particularly if you can use it as a 3G modem / GPS adapter for a laptop.

]]>Jan 31st 2008 5:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.ndriveweb.com/products/product/32/ (choose language on the right top corner). Since I’m Portuguese I’m very proud of it :)]]>Jan 31st 2008 6:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.phoneonemobile.com/product_detail.php?cont_id=24 and another discussion http://www.pocketpt.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php?t19117.html

Also see the Nokia N95 and Numerous HTC products that have GPS built in. Garmin themselves had the NavTalk back in the Analog cell phone days https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=165&pID=84
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oh did i say i hate iphone, what an overpriced piece of you know what. can't wait for the nuvifone or htc touch cruise]]>Feb 2nd 2008 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/
P.S. Hey, Saad - I really liked your Steve-Jobs-mimic. ;)]]>Feb 25th 2008 4:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Mar 2nd 2008 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-gets-official-with-its-nuvifone/Apr 13th 2008 3:21PM