iPhone Killer

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Even before their first phone, Nuvifone G60, is out, the newly formed partnership of Garmin and Asus has announced their second phone called M20. What’s different about this one? First of all, it will run on the popular Windows Mobile 6.1, 2.8 inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi, dual-band HSDPA up to 7.2Mbps, tri-band EDGE, full QWERTY keyboard, [...]

Garmin Nuvifone is coming. At least it’s getting closer. Today, they announced their partnership with Asus and renamed the phone to Nuvifone G60. Garmin-Asus plans on producing phones on multiple operating systems, including Windows Mobile, Linux and Google’s Android platform, said Jonney Shih, chairman of Asustek, at a news conference in Taipei. The phones will [...]

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Even before they have launched their Nuvifone, the rumor is that Garmin also join other phone manufacturers who have commited to making Android based phones. Are they already planning for Nuvifone failure? If they were confident that this will be the true iPhone Killer, why would they need to move to Android based phone? Or, [...]

We almost forgot about this iPhone Killer from Garmin but apparently they have been making progress. It has finally passed through the FCC for US lanuch. However, no word on whether they were able to secure any carrier deals and how much it will sell for. With the carrier deal, like BB Storm, Apple iPhone, [...]

Unfortunately, this iPhone Killer from Garmin is not going to be available in 2008 as previously announced. Now, the earlier anyone can own one of these is “First Half of 2009″. It just goes to show you that when you have not been in the cellular phone business, there will be stuff that comes up [...]