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Garmins between $100 and $120 for Black Friday

Nov 5, 2009 garmin, gps navigation Leave a comment

Garmin is expected to have a few models specially designed for the American Black Friday madness. These GPS navigation systems will cost somewhere between $100 and $120 according to Twice. Also according to Cliff Pemble who is the president and COO of Garmin the sales of nuviphone were “slow” so a TV ad campaign was just launched. Reporting on the Android based nuviphone – he said it is slated for 2010.

Garmin doesn’t sound like they are too concerned about this new generation of competitors coming from GPS enabled smart phones. These new navigation apps still require a costly data plan and usually a higher end phone.

nuviphone now only $99

Nov 1, 2009 garmin, gps navigation, phones Leave a comment

Oh nuviphone… Now you’re only $99. Remember the days when we thought you’d cost $300?

Amazon knows what the true value of nuviphone is these days. It has to compete with many other smartphones which are much better at many other things and can expand with apps. Nuviphone on the other hands does not do apps, had some bad reviews, but but.. does a great job at navigation.

Grab the Garmin nüvifone G60 for only $99. Of course these prices are after a 2 year contract still…

nuviphone G60 reviews

Oct 7, 2009 garmin, gps navigation, phones, reviews 3 Comments

A couple of reviews already came out about the nuviphone G60 we waited for years. One from pcmag, and the other one from Gizmodo. Neither of them look that good but if you have your heart set on this device you should really read the reviews and look for specifics that would actually change your mind.

pcmag: You can search for points of interests with your voice, great map detail, no DC power adapter for charging, voice directions not very loud, comes with document viewer, no MMS, bad camera, no video recording or playing, good battery life.

Still, the G60 is the best cell-phone-based GPS navigation device I’ve ever tested.

gizmodo: bad touchscreen, bad camera, bad accelerometer, $5 extra to check weather, traffic, etc, no car chager, good navigation.

I didn’t mean to be this harsh, but I also didn’t expect the G60 to be so bad.

Have you seen any other nuviphone G60 reviews? Please share URLs in the comments section.

UPDATE (Oct 14th 2009):

Engadget: Great for navigating but not as capable as a smartphone.

At $299 on contract, you’ve got a lot of smartphone options, and unless navigation is your number one priority, almost any of them are superior to this. This phone just isn’t a smartphone; it’s an amazing navigation machine that makes calls and attempts to browse the web / dabble in integrated apps.

David Pogue: A video review. He calls it “too expensive two trick pony”

nuviphone

Sep 30, 2009 garmin, gps navigation, phones Leave a comment

Couple of days ago we mentioned that nuviphone would cost $300 and be offered by AT&T. Well we were correct. The news is now official. Finally. It is here. Nuviphone is here!!!

AT&T Garmin announced the Garmin nüvifone G60 will be available beginning October 4.

Garmin’s president and COO Cliff Pemble said:

The nüvifone has Garmin’s easy-to-use interface, so navigating to a meeting directly from its calendar or contacts pages, or geotagging an email or photograph with a location stamp, is intuitive, useful and fun.

nuviphone G60 will be as functional as a high end Garmin nuvi, and will come with necessary hardware to be used in your car. The maps of nuviphone are locally stored which means you can still get directions in the middle of nowhere where there’s no AT&T. However if you’re somewhere near a cell tower it is almost guaranteed you’ll get a satellite fix sooner because the G60 utilizes A-GPS.

Other features of nuviphone include full web browsing via AT&T’s 3G network, or good old WiFi. There are connected services of course which include access to real-time traffic information, fuel prices, White Pages, weather and more. You’ve got a 3.2MP too which can automatically geotag your shots.

nuvifone G60 will cost $300 with a two year contract after a $100 mail-in-rebate. Nuvifone Premium Connected Services which includes traffic updates, white pages, weather, movie, local events and fuel price content are available for $6/month after a 30-day trial. This is on top of the data charges you’ll have to pay AT&T. What’s up with that….

nuviphone will cost $300

Sep 26, 2009 garmin, gps navigation, phones 45 Comments

Some rumors on the interwebs are suggesting the nuviphone G60 will go for $300 after a two year contract and a $100 mail-in-rebate. That is quite pricey – and straight up it is even worse. Without a contract it will cost $550 – almost worth 2 low end netbooks :) even though we realize that is not a fair comparison.

As you know nuviphone already came out in Asia couple of months ago and we’ve been waiting for the North America launch for a looong time.

nuviphone M20 coming out soon

Aug 18, 2009 gps navigation 1 Comment

nuviphone M20 – the Windows Mobile love child of Garmin and Asus is ready to come out on August 19th… in Taiwan.

Here are the features and specs of nuviphone M20:

• dual-band 3.5G / tri-band GSM
• Wi-Fi
• 2.8” TFT touch screen
• 4GB or 8GB of storage
• 3MP camera
• OPERA browser, HTML, WAP 1.2.1/2.0

The date for U.S. release can’t be that far now… Read More …

nuviphone coming to multiple carriers in U.S.

Aug 6, 2009 gps navigation 1 Comment

Just last week we talked about nuviphone release in Asia. According to Twice nuviphone will be in the U.S. 4th quarter of this year, and they’re already testing the device with undisclosed number of carriers.

Apparently there will be a whole ad campaign to go with it.

nuviphone is here (well… in Asia) anyone still excited?

Jul 26, 2009 asus, garmin, gps navigation, phones 8 Comments

After a loooooong wait, Garmin and Asus has finally made the Garmin-Asus nüvifone G60 available in Asia. (more precisely Taiwan on July 27; Singapore and Malaysia end of August.)

We still don’t have any details on the pricing but their press release say this:

In Asia, it will be available through carriers and retail channels. The nüvifone G60 is on schedule for delivery in Europe and the United States in the second half of 2009, and additional details about pricing, availability and carriers will be announced in the coming months

After all this wait how much would you be willing to pay for this phone?

nuviphone coming second half of this year

May 9, 2009 garmin, gps navigation, phones 17 Comments

nuviphone G60 should just get the most delayed smartphone award. What a tease. We’ve been talking about the nuviphone G60 since January of 2008 and just this last week we got the news that the launch is now further delayed to the second half of the year.

COO Cliff Pemble:

“Smartphones are complicated and bringing one to market that’s built totally from the ground up on a custom Linux platform is not an easy task.”

According to TWICE the device is now in certification process and cell phone carriers are still interested adding the new Garmin phone to their lineup.

more nuviphone G60 videos

Mar 12, 2009 asus, garmin, gps navigation, phones Leave a comment

We had already talked about nuviphone videos but here are some we missed to mention that came up during MWC 2009 nuviphone G60.

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