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Garmin-Asus

Garminfone Wants to Navigate Your Life, Sign Up Now

by Kevin Krause on April 26th, 2010 6 Comments

The Garminfone was just made official last week, and now those eager to get their hands on this navigation-centric phone on T-Mobile can sign up to get all the updates their little hearts desire. T-Mobile has launched it’s Garminfone page, offering little in the way of shocking or surprising detail. The basics are covered: the [...]

Garminfone Coming to T-Mobile, Will Feature Android

by Kevin Krause on April 21st, 2010 12 Comments

Garmin-Asus is releasing their new phone exclusively for T-Mobile, dubbed simply the Garminfone (no nuvifone here). The navigation-based phone’s UI will be built up from Android 1.6, and the handset features a 3MP camera and 3.5 HVGA touchscreen. Included will be a car dock, making sure the phone can easily be used for its extended [...]

Android-Based Garmin Nuvifone A50 Gets Video Demo!

by Rob Jackson on February 14th, 2010 10 Comments

We waited FOREVER for Garmin-Asus to release their first phone and when they did, no Android was in tact. But the company’s are finally fulfilling their promise by launching the Garmin Nuvifone A50 and MobileBurn got a hands on opportunity: Do you see the UI? That looks NOTHING like Android and is obviously heavily modified. [...]

Garmin-Asus A50 Navigates to Europe In 2010

by Anthony Perez on February 11th, 2010 5 Comments

More news from this year’s MWC is the collaboration of Garmin and ASUS to bring us the A50. It claims to have “more location technology than any other smartphone” Here is what we have seen thus far in terms of specs for the A50: 3.5-inch HVGA Capacitive touchscreen Custom, finger-friendly UI 4GB of internal storage [...]

Don’t Forget About The Garmin-ASUS Androids

by Rob Jackson on January 21st, 2010 8 Comments

There are two things that happened in 1492: Columbus sailed the Ocean blue Garmin promised to make a phone 517 years later Garmin finally delivered a phone but they also promised Android Phones were on the way. A partnership with ASUS actually promised many phones in the coming years but we have yet to see [...]

Garmin Android Phone Announcement Coming This Year

by Rob Jackson on October 19th, 2009 6 Comments

At the beginning of this year, Garmin and ASUS announced their smartphone partnership in hopes of catapulting themselves to the forefront of the booming smartphone market. But what better way to catapult any phone to new heights these days than loading it up with Android? None – and that is exactly what the joint venture [...]

Garmin-ASUS Android Announced… Again… 2010

by Rob Jackson on June 2nd, 2009 2 Comments

I’m not going to waste too much time on this because it is… annoying. Garmin-ASUS just announced they’ll launch an Android Phone next year. Sometime in 2010. If you really need any more explanation why this is simultaneously pointless and annoying, please refer to CrunchGear.

Garmin Delays Nuvifone Again, Android An Afterthought

by Rob Jackson on May 11th, 2009 6 Comments

If Garmin’s smartphone aspirations were mapped out using its own world class service we would be coming to the crossroads of “signal lost”, “re-routing” and “make the next available U-Turn”. Garmin has just delayed their first forray into the smartphone market – the Nuvifone – until at least Q3 2009. As a point of reference, [...]

Garmin & Asus Team Up, Publicly

by Rob Jackson on February 4th, 2009 1 Comments

We’ve known for quite some time that Garmin and ASUS were partnered up, after all… they’ve previously been selected to manufacture the Nuvifone. But now that partnership has not only become public but promoted and the partnership isn’t for a device but for a complete lineup. Garmin’s upcoming Nuvifone will even be rebranded as the [...]