http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/ Engadget Comments for Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M10 and A50 hands-on 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/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/Feb 14th 2010 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/It's just you]]>Feb 14th 2010 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/Feb 14th 2010 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/Feb 14th 2010 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://bit.ly/garmin-asus-nuvifone-10-view]]>Feb 15th 2010 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/Feb 14th 2010 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/Feb 14th 2010 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/
now everyone sees what's happening :))

BG, you are a partisan :)]]>Feb 15th 2010 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/
Nice front, I like the back even though engadget says yuck

And its got Android, which I would prefer over Windows Mobile]]>Feb 14th 2010 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/Feb 14th 2010 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://shopping.pchome.com.tw/?mod=item&func=exhibit&IT_NO=DGAL1F-A46026334&SR_NO=DGAL1F&ROWNO=1
It's going for about $430 without contract]]>Feb 14th 2010 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/Feb 14th 2010 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/

]]>Feb 14th 2010 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/Feb 14th 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/Feb 14th 2010 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/yeah, my point exactly - they just don't seem to know what they're doing, or what market they're in..
]]>Feb 14th 2010 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/I dunno, maybe what HTC was thinking when they did the same thing on the tons of Android phones they sold? Last I checked those seem to be doing rather well...]]>Feb 14th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/Sure. All I know is that I wouldn't buy one..
Or any smartphone/PMP without a 3.5mm jack, that forces you to use special headphones.. (or a silly adapter?)- but that's because I always use them for listening to music.]]>Feb 14th 2010 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/Moreover for this price nowadays you can get some truly amazing devices (like my beloved HD2 for exemple) on which you can put Copilot (my choice) or TomTom or whatever you prefer.
Or like my trusty Hero (yes, I need 2 phones) for which , besides the usual satnav programs are available even some great FREE navigation apps and soon also google maps' turn by turn update.
I look forward to upgrade my Hero with a Bravo or a Supersonic but I would still prefer my Hero to these nuviphones.
What processor, how much RAM , how much memory do they offer?
Why would anyone choose these things instead of a N1, a Milestone/Droid, or one of the upcoming Android cum Snapdragon superphones?
Their only chance , in my humble opinion, is to offer a very aggressive price, but since this does not seem to be Asus/Garmin's opinion, I am ready to bet that they are speedily headed towards failland.
Any takers?]]>Feb 14th 2010 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/
The only way I can justify it (in my mind at least) is you get the peace of mind that comes from getting a Garmin GPS device. Garmin has been doing GPS devices for years, and so have had the time to perfect the combination of GPS receiver and navigation software and meld them together into one cohesive unit.

I don't need GPS functionality that often, so that argument is moot, but its the only logical one I can think of.]]>Feb 14th 2010 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/
BigJayDogg3 said it exactly right: it's a Garmin, and people trust Garmin for nav. It's true that someone could just get a Droid, a Nexus One, or another high-end, super-fast phone, but they won't have the same appeal as these will. Plenty people will see the nuvifones and instantly get it. There are no pretensions of a smartphone platform to immediately compete with or take time to understand when you see these, and that's more than enough to get people to walk out of the store with one, and then if they find they like Android or WinMo, then that's good too. I can't tell you how many people I know that don't mess with smartphones because they feel they can't handle it; these are the kinds of phones that people will just 'get'. Shoot, if I had money to blow, I'd pick up an M10. It's very sleek, and I could use good nav. I've heard as many bad things about Copilot as I've heard good things...]]>Feb 14th 2010 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/Feb 14th 2010 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/
That is unforgiveable. Better stick to laptops, Asus if you can't get something simple like that right...]]>Feb 14th 2010 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-and-a50-hands-on/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpipLPUa_pA]]>Feb 15th 2010 1:32AM