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Nüvifones start screen handles navigation and internet, phone features..
Garmin launches mobile phone
February 01, 2008
GPS maufacturer Garmin follows in Mio's footsteps and launches a mobile phone. Nüvifone is to have a 3.5 inch touch screen, turbo-3G and, of course, full GPS functionality. The phone will hit markets during the third quarter 2008.
GPS manufacturers are not going to stand by watching while GPS phones nibble away at their markets. Mio already has a mobile phone, and now Garmin also launches a phone, Nüvifone.
Nüvifone will have a 3.5 inch touch screen, and that is all information given from Garmin, the rest has to be extrapolated from the images. The phone also features GSM and ”3.5G”, which has to be interpreted as some kind of turbo 3G.
According to Garmin, the Nüvifone is ”the first of its kind to integrate mobile connectivity with 3.5G, internet browser, data connection, personal messages and personal navigation in one device”. Okay, the Nokia GPS does not have touch screen, but it is hard to explain why HTC's TYTN II does not have these qualities.
What is different about Garmin's Nüvifone is that GPS, internet and phone functions take up an equal amount of space, which is clear when watching the start screen. Garmin also seems to want to give the phone as much GPS feel as possible, and the ordinary GPS features, as points of interest and voice instructions when navigating. Among the more uncommon features is that the phone phone automatically switches to handsfree mode when put in the car cradle, and it remembers the position of the car when removed from the cradle, if you should forget where you parked the car in a bit parking lot.
Google is mentioned several times in the press release. Google Local Search is used to fetch and filter point of interest information from the internet, and Google Panoramio can be used to mark up positions and upload images taken with the mobile phone to place them on the web. In addition to the camera, Garmin promises a media player, just as on a real phone.
Garmin will be exhibiting at the Mobile World fair in Barcelona in two weeks, perhaps more will be revealed about the Nüvifone there.
The screen measures 3.5 inch.
Nüvifone web browser.
By:
Elias Nordling, Jonas Kämpe
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Consultant in business strategy and ITC. Covers internet and mobile media as writer and editor.
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