Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M10 emerges on Taiwanese pre-order page

It was only yesterday that we heard of this WinMo 6.5.3 beastie, and already Taiwanese ladies and gents can sign up to own one, pending a February 6 delivery. The new pre-order page confirms our earlier indications of a 3.5-inch WVGA display and 5 megapixel camera, while adding the knowledge of 512MB of both RAM and ROM, plus MicroSD storage expandability. A relatively low end Qualcomm MSM 7227 600MHz CPU drives the show here, and we're told a spare battery (1,500mAh by default) or a car holder for navigation also come as part of the 13,900 TWD ($435) package. So, are you excited or what?

[webconnect Posted Jan 22nd 2010 4:12AM]

Nice hand set

[viper24 Posted Jan 22nd 2010 4:15AM]

I can dig it. Will be obsolete very soon being a WinMo 6.5.x device however.

[glenskey Posted Jan 22nd 2010 4:16AM]

it looks very... phone-esque

that just about sums it up in my opinion.

[n0ne Posted Jan 22nd 2010 4:18AM]

I'm calling it, "ifone keelr"

[mtnDewFTW Posted Jan 22nd 2010 4:29AM]

Hi iPhone clone #2124

[DangerRabbit Posted Jan 22nd 2010 4:56AM]

I'm feeling a slight KIRF vibe with this.

[vismonkey69 Posted Jan 22nd 2010 4:58AM]

Forgetting other mobile operating system manufacturers for a second and concentrating on Windows Mobile. When will we get to the point that Microsoft starts saying Designed for Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Mobile 7 ready. As a consumer I can handle not having the fastest mobile processor in my handheld device but I get this gut wrenching knowing that if I get something now, it is not necessarily going to have an upgrade to the new mobile OS. In the desktop market I think this is one of the things that has made Windows so attractive - again just talking about Microsoft software here.

[GabrielP Posted Jan 22nd 2010 5:23AM]

Well, it looks a lot like Samsung Star.

[Geozec Posted Jan 22nd 2010 6:00AM]

I think that Nokia, Google and Co were much faster in ntegrating GPS than Garmin was to produce a handset. Don't think this has a great future.

[Rem DX Posted Jan 22nd 2010 8:49AM]

Ovi maps is good, Ovi maps is free, Ovi maps needs no data connectivity.
Nokia is huge in Asia especially.
I really want to know what Garmin-Asus' strategy is going to be if they hope to make a profit on this thing.

[immortal clone Posted Jan 22nd 2010 9:34AM]

Out of 10 comments 2 are about Nokia Maps.

[hmmwv Posted Jan 22nd 2010 10:15AM]

@immortal clone If Garmin doesn't get its acts together and bring free life time map updates, Ovi Maps will make them obsolete.

[darkNiGHTS Posted Jan 22nd 2010 10:48AM]

That's actually a very good price for an unlocked phone. I just wish ASUS would ditch Garmin though, that has to drive up the price a bit. They could still have a partnership, but do they really need to cobrand?