http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/ Engadget Comments for Garmin-Asus nuvifone M10 offers Windows Mobile 6.5.3 with an obsession for navigation 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/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/Feb 11th 2010 4:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/
gOSgle]]>Feb 11th 2010 5:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/Feb 11th 2010 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/
Is it just cheap? Is that why manufacturers insist on putting them in their devices?]]>Feb 11th 2010 5:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/
This isn't their flagship phone, so yes.]]>Feb 11th 2010 5:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/what next...? 1.5 GHz? at 599$???
Why not a real OS on that type of devices/phones?

Why I should pay 599$ on a smart phone with a mini-OS? When I really need at least a "notebook" at 1.6 GHz with a real OS like XP, Win7 or some Linux version...?]]>Feb 11th 2010 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/Feb 11th 2010 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/Feb 11th 2010 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/
Pure genius!]]>Feb 11th 2010 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSearZyxXMI
It will only be sold in Asia. All the maps are loaded on the device and it has all the fucntions of a high end Nuvi.]]>Feb 11th 2010 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-offers-windows-mobile-6-5-3-with-an-obs/
That said, this phone seems to be mid-pack at best and since Samsung and LG own that space with approximately (rough estimate) 12 million competing generic smartphone models. This thing better be cheap to even get noticed amongst them. At least Motorola has made their low to mid-pack smartphones stand out by giving them unique styling (like Devour), but this thing looks like every other cookie cutter smart phone in existence for the last three years.

If Garmin Asus want to be serious players they need to find a second niche aside from navigation which EVERY smartphone on the market does out of the box. They need to either offer unique hardware like Motorola is doing lately, or aim for either the super high end, high margin low volume niche or try to make half a percentage point profit on each unit in the low end but sell 7 million of them. Where they are now dead in the middle they will not even get noticed in the market and will quickly disappear with offerings like this.

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The other genius is to not update your current XT on Windows Mobile in order to push your dead custom-phone.]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:49PM