http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/ Engadget Comments for Rumor: Garmin-ASUS nuvifone G60 to run $300? 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/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/Sep 27th 2009 3:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/Now that it has to compete with the likes of HTC's HD2 (Leo) or Archos Android Tablet/phone or Nokia's revamped (v.2.0) N97 or N900, this thing doesn't stand half a chance.
Last spring I would have consdiered as an alternative before buying my (excellent) HTC Hero, now its moment is past, gone and forgotten.]]>Sep 27th 2009 4:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/Sep 27th 2009 5:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/Sep 27th 2009 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/Sep 27th 2009 5:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/Sep 27th 2009 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/Sep 27th 2009 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/Sep 27th 2009 5:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/________________
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What is a shame... they spent who knows how many years developing their own Linux.. or maybe it was just a port or extension of their own OS that has been on their PND's for years. It's a shame, but still, I cannot wait for their Android phone to come to the US. I also hope they release an app for the android market so we can finally get a real nav app.]]>Sep 27th 2009 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/Sep 27th 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/
Of course that is not to say that necessarily a phone with a proprietary OS won't sell well. It might end up as a dumbphone (no apps) and dumbphones still sell really well, despite how inexpensive smartphones have become.]]>Sep 27th 2009 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/Sep 27th 2009 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/Sep 27th 2009 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/Sep 27th 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/Sep 27th 2009 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/Sep 27th 2009 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/27/rumor-garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-to-run-300/
This IS a real GPS unlike other smartphone, iphone, etc. While those phones still have GPS positioning (needed to calculate signal delay from the tower so signals from multiple towers can be combined to provide better signal quality), they do not have onboard maps. The maps are downloaded over a data network, so when you go to a rural area, the navigation stops working. The nuviphone though is supposed to have onboard maps so it can work independently of the cellular network. Considering most GPSs start at about $200, a phone with real GPS navigation for $300 is not all that bad. Once you add the tom tom app ($100) and mount ($100) to the iphone, even that ends up costing over $500, so $300 still looks pretty good.]]>Sep 27th 2009 8:36PM