Hopefully Garmin will do the smart thing and make this a GPS first - that happens to make phone calls. Garmin is well known for their very nice GPS software, and loadable maps. Make the nuviPhone 90% one of their nuvi devices and I think they'll do OK. Garmin makes a WIDE variety of handheld GPSs, this one will happen to make calls, too. Any other strategy and I think they'll get lost in the crowded smartphone market.
It'd be fun if they'd pull a TomTom and port their navigation software to the iPhone, too. GPS hardware has (mostly) become commoditized like the PC market. Garmin could show they have the edge with software.
you can already install Garmin's mapping software on Symbian devices w/ GPS antennas. I have it on my Nokia N95 8gb. So I kinda already have a Nuvi/phone. It works nicely.
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Hopefully Garmin will do the smart thing and make this a GPS first - that happens to make phone calls. Garmin is well known for their very nice GPS software, and loadable maps. Make the nuviPhone 90% one of their nuvi devices and I think they'll do OK. Garmin makes a WIDE variety of handheld GPSs, this one will happen to make calls, too. Any other strategy and I think they'll get lost in the crowded smartphone market.
It'd be fun if they'd pull a TomTom and port their navigation software to the iPhone, too. GPS hardware has (mostly) become commoditized like the PC market. Garmin could show they have the edge with software.
my thoughts exactly....
you can already install Garmin's mapping software on Symbian devices w/ GPS antennas. I have it on my Nokia N95 8gb. So I kinda already have a Nuvi/phone. It works nicely.