http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/ Engadget Comments for Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60 hands-on (Update: now with video!) 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/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius

Worldwide adoption Throughout the world, except in the U.S. and a few other countries (for example, Belize)

Even in the U.S., almost the entire scientific field and most engineering fields, especially high-tech ones, use the Celsius scale, and the metric system in general. However, most Americans remain more accustomed to the Fahrenheit scale, which is the scale that U.S. broadcasters use in weather forecasts. The Fahrenheit scale is also commonly used in the U.S. for body temperatures.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOe_vFds2u0&fmt=18]]>Feb 15th 2009 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/
There is no reason to use that older technology unless the company does not have a OS optimized for touch (AKA a stylus is used)... And then it should probably not even be touch screen since just slapping a touchscreen onto a device that limits your use of the features never wins... When will they ever learn?]]>Feb 15th 2009 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/1. Handwriting
2. Drawing

Both of which suck with capacitive screens.]]>Feb 15th 2009 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/
Resistive allows for multiple ways of controlling the touch screen. I find that to be much better. Until they can allow capacitive to be used with gloves on...I have no like for it yet!]]>Feb 15th 2009 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/
Both of which are IMPOSSIBLE with capacitive, unless you have pencil then fingers...literally]]>Feb 15th 2009 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/
2) drawing on touchscreens is only really any good with a wacom (or something similar)

I personally would like smooth scrolling and easy button entry... I would give up drawing in a program that looks like Microsoft paint for easier/smoother navigation...


]]>Feb 15th 2009 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Totally pointless, but in a twisted way, it is possible...kind of.

Ok, for all practical purposes, impossible]]>Feb 15th 2009 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/I love the Omnia and look forward to upgrade to the Omnia HD when it will be available, even though a few other devices are piquing my interest right now, including this N60 nuvifone.
The review by Engadget must be totally wrong , or else is totally wrong the one in the link provided by Saad Rabia (which looks more professionally done)
Besides I would really like to know what iPhone trone is Engadget talking about: the one of the most antiquated phone still on the market? The one for most hyped gadget ?
I was so stupid to buy an iPhone 3G when it just came out (i got rid of it within a month of course) and this Garmin appears superior in every aspect bar none to Apple's cheap imitation of a smartphone.]]>Feb 15th 2009 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/
By the way, why isn't this post on Engadget Mobile - at all?]]>Feb 15th 2009 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/
This piece of crap is gonna fail so hard.

Besides, we have iPhone. What else do we really need?]]>Feb 15th 2009 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/
Maybe Engadget can pull the ban hammer out and get rid of these clowns?]]>Feb 15th 2009 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/
Probably because that's the only real hardware you have in your shorts.

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- Copy/Paste
- A decent camera
- A camera that can take decent video (or just video, for that matter)
- Multitasking
- A flash on that camera.
- Better typing experience
- Higher resolution screen
- Real GPS
- REAL BLUETOOTH.
- Inter-app integration

Sorry for the short list, but I only had 10 seconds to spare. Thanks for asking!]]>Feb 15th 2009 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/
]]>Feb 15th 2009 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/No drag and drop file juggling
No Flash support inside Safari (where the heck is Opera Mobile and/or SkyFire for this thing)
No Java
No copy and paste
No tethering
No front camera
No video recording
No video calls
No user replaceable battery
No radio
No VGA resolution
No IR port (it's something I take for granted, using my phone as a remote for well...anything just about)
No physical keyboard
No external storage card support (Micro SDHC cards are up to 32 GB now, 8GB is NOT enough these days, especially for a media device)
No voice command (WM devices and even some "el-cheapo" phones have featured this for years now)
No MMS (it doesn't have phone-to-phone MMS, it has phone-to-air-to-phone picture sharing necessitating a data plan)
No Live TV (that doesnt require you to be connected to an app like Orb on your home PC, which defeats the purpose, why would I want to watch it on a dinky non VGA screen instead of just on my home PC when im at home anyways)
No camera flash
No camera zoom
Same old, subpar, 2 MP camera for that matter
No multitasking
No turn-by-turn voice navigation system
Limited video format support
Limited picture format support
Limited file format support in general
Only 128 MB of RAM (Cant run many apps simultaneously -- I mean not that it matters since multitasking is for all intents and purposes out of the question! New WM phones are getting 256+ MB of RAM, with 150+ MB free on bootup)]]>Feb 15th 2009 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/
You don't need anything else because you would never understand how to use it anyway, no matter what it is.]]>Feb 15th 2009 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/
I'm not going to disagree with you regarding the capabilities (or lack thereof) on the iPhone but you know what's sad? I used winmo devices for years (compaq, dell, HTC) and and after using the iPhone, you couldn't pay me to go back. Call me one of the mindless sheep if you like, but there is a reason why the marketshare of winmo devices is quickly disappearing to nothing..winmo, as it currently exists, plain sucks. It does a whole bunch of things, just none of them very well. And while you may find all of the items on your list useful, most people don't care or need the majority of them and simply don't miss them. Only thing I miss about using winmo is the availability of slingplayer but hopefully that will soon change. ]]>Feb 15th 2009 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 11:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/
Capacitive = smooth]]>Feb 15th 2009 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/
But still, I will never buy a non-capacitive touchscreen phone.]]>Feb 15th 2009 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-hands-on/Feb 15th 2009 6:05PM