Even a solid year after
its announcement, we still don't have an exact price or date for the nuvifone G60 -- but we do have a little bit better of an idea of what exactly we're going to be getting. We already knew that it'd feature a 3.5-inch (well, 3.55-inch, to be exact) display and HSDPA, and now we know that it'll feature the same Ciao! buddy-finding software found in its
M20 stablemate. There'll be a 3 megapixel autofocus cam complete with geotagging, WiFi, preloaded maps for either North American or Eastern and Western Europe depending on your region, and dummy-resistant tools like "Where am I?" that should be familiar to current
nuvi users. The interface looks promising -- and the specs are still reasonably competitive by 2009 standards -- but all will be revealed when the G60 gets put through its paces
in a few days.
posted Feb 12th 2009 2:32AM
Hopefully this can get Apple to wake up and give true Turn-By-Turn directions on the iPhone. If not, in a year when my contract runs up, I may be making a different choice. My GPS in my car is on its last leg, I would love to finally have the all in one device I have been waiting for.
yea it would be nice to get a phone that does it all, you can count on it if your lost or whatnot, and maybe this is the beginning of this new age. As long as it runs by satellite, thou I do like this, I think Im more of a android fan, dont have the G1 but were see how things head later this year. Im happy with my nokia right now. You here Archos is gettin on the game to, up to 500GB HDD in a Android Phone, crazy shit, so yea
I hope that Garmin and Asus worked on this hard enough to kill the iPhone 3G. But, to me, it's either the rumored "next-gen iPhone (that is said to be in progress)" kills its own predecessor or something else kills it.
I really hope Garmin will put this phone in the market by April. This phone is godsend to travel/tour agents like me. I hate carrying both my iphone and my Nuvi all round. Iphone might got GPS, but the maps are online and data roaming is a bitch. Plus I got tons of garmin maps on my computer, hopefully this garmin wont use proprietary maps on it.
Now if only Garmin would do something about its gay-ass interface. Who wants to bring down the aesthetic of his car's interior with that chidlish, cartoony display?
lol @ the idiot troll.
I really like this combo, smart phones just do not have the fine tuned gps software to replace gps units, and I like the garmin units because they actually show the water ways of all sizes. I really like seeing the streams I cross and where they go, so why do not other companies, like tomtom, do not include/show bodies of water, besides large lakes?
To the engadget staff: remember, those publicity shots of GPS devices do NOT show the real display, that's photoshopped in.
(many on the engadget site seem to not be aware of that obvious fact it has been shown)