Garmin-ASUS nuvifone M20 and G60 shipping to Singapore in August

After a patently absurd amount of delays, it actually feels like the Garmin-ASUS nüvifone tandem is approaching a proper launch. Whether or not anyone actually cares anymore, however, remains to be seen. Across the sea over in Malaysia, one particularly lucky soul seems to have stumbled upon both the Linux-based nüvifone G60 and the WinMo-powered nüvifone M20, and he claims that both handsets will be shipping en masse to the region "within 30 days." Best of all, that totally jibes with what we've heard directly from Garmin today, which has informed us that the smartphone will be in Singaporean stores in August, with a few other Asian nations seeing it in late July. Now, if only North Americans could look forward to the same...

[blueangel00100 @ Jul 17th 2009 9:54PM]

ifone I see what they did there

[richb93 @ Jul 17th 2009 10:01PM]

/facepalm

[bjay @ Jul 17th 2009 10:20PM]

You ve a good eye *facepalm*

[murmermer @ Jul 17th 2009 10:29PM]

Your mom *Facepalm*

[saveacoweatvegan @ Jul 17th 2009 10:07PM]

interesting, putting the two side by side, the opera browser renders it so much more naturally

[Rudy @ Jul 17th 2009 10:12PM]

talk about dead on arrival

[R Nair @ Jul 17th 2009 10:44PM]

Sweet! I hope they have support for malsing maps (local mapping group). I think they use Singapore for a lot of Beta testing, or . I wonder why!! We got one of the first Omnias' too. Lots of bugs, but FIRST (no reference to my post sequence please... I know I'm not first as there is an iphone bot trying to shake off the nerdy with a pic). I am guessing it will be more of the same... but it would be nice to see what is beneath the bugs.

[bjay @ Jul 17th 2009 10:26PM]

You could not help ur self to mentioning "FIRST"...............I kid. Though i dont see how Nuvi can shake the present smartphone market. Did i miss something about the special tins it brings to the table

[tulani @ Jul 17th 2009 10:59PM]

Oh...I want it...Expen?

[Paul Mensah @ Jul 18th 2009 3:46AM]

Can someone please tell them to stick to their core business! come on this will fail ... the kings of the mobile industry have already been decided and they are:

Apple
RIMM
and
PALM

and out of these three we already know whos number 1

[Mr. 14 @ Jul 18th 2009 4:10AM]

You're right! A company can't EVER break into the phone market and become a major player in a matter of a years. Who's ever heard of a GPS company getting into the mobile phone industry? Absurd! What's next, a company that makes MP3 players will come out with a smartphone?!

[Wesley @ Jul 18th 2009 5:11AM]

Apple, Rimm and Palm are not the top 3 makes of mobile phones. Get real!

[KIFF @ Jul 18th 2009 7:03AM]

None of the three here are even close to be a leader in the mobile phone industry.

[10minutehobo @ Jul 18th 2009 7:32AM]

It's amazing how some people never seem to be able to look out of their own little coughapplecough world.

[Javanese @ Jul 18th 2009 8:47AM]

LMFAO Get real, nokia sold 470 MILLION mobile phones in 2008 alone. Much more than every ipod, iphones and mac computers ever made combined.

[Nelagster @ Jul 18th 2009 1:53PM]

wow your ignorance baffles me

[nick @ Jul 18th 2009 9:04AM]

Too bad Nokia is full of idiots right now. Lets launch our N97 with a 400megahertz processor from a last gen cpu core and crap software. Also let's really make sure we improve the usability hardly at all from the 5800 even though we had 5 months worth of people telling us how bad S60v5 was from a consistency and user friendliness standpoint. Hardware graphics acceleration? You mean that thing we had in the n95 and n96? Forget that, who needs that crap when you have a 400 megahertz cpu? WTF NOKIA? It would be forgivable if you were say, Palm and you had some neat new OS and platform to work with and not a lot of cash, but you're Nokia, you should be able to buy in enough quantities to make other phones looks grossly ever priced. Where my Nvidia tegra based, 512mb ram, 3.5 amoled screen, device with a hardware keyboard and a refreshed OS, because don't even act like you couldn't just hire people to make a decent operating system. You better blow us away in September.

[HorizonSmoker @ Jul 18th 2009 10:31AM]

lmao good read

[digitallysick @ Jul 18th 2009 12:51PM]

I think its a good idea, I can imagine all the gps functions are great. I'm more worried about the phone part, and battery life

[freediverdude @ Jul 18th 2009 3:36PM]

This thing STILL isn't here?? Wasn't this announced like around the time of the launch of the iphone 3G last year?? or was it the original iphone launch, lol. Wayyy to late.

[michael @ Jul 18th 2009 11:47PM]

This thing MIGHT have had a chance, like LAST Christmas when GPS systems were the 'in' gift. I just don't see ANY reason Id buy this over a Pre, iPhone 3G S or Storm II. All of the devices I stated will have or do world-class turn-by-turn real time GPS features. Its akin to car manufactureres wanting 2K for their nav system. No offense, but Ill stick with my Sprint Navigagtion which is better than say a Dash ever was.

These GPS companies are SO fucked, Garmin at least saw this and tried, but it realized it couldn't do it alone and didn't have the cash to bring a real phone to market and enter Acer, King of Cheap Shit that Works 'O.K.'.

[ohfreak @ Jul 19th 2009 10:25PM]

Yeah, that's Asus not Acer.

[mackee @ Jul 20th 2009 3:41AM]

A tiny vocab prob with the article. The adjective of 'Singapore' is 'Singapore' NOT 'Singaporean'. So " ....the smartphone will be in Singaporean stores..." should be "...Singapore stores...."

Peace