Garmin Enters Mobile Phone Market - Meet nüvifone
Date: Friday, February 01 @ 09:57:12 UTC
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Garmin announced yesterday its entrance into the mobile phone market with the nüvifone, a touchscreen multi-function solution that combines cellphone, web browser and satellite navigator into a single handheld device. Sharing many design features with modern PDA's and a hint of iPhone the nüvifone looks great.
“The nüvifone is an all-in-one device offering unmatched integration of utility and function in a single mobile device,” said Cliff Pemble, Garmin’s president and COO. “This is the breakthrough product that cell phone and GPS users around the world have been longing for — a single device that does it all.”
Hmm, all sounds revolutionary if you believe the PR spiel but it offers nothing more than any of the GPS equipped PocketPC Phone Edition devices available today except perhaps the Garmin brand and their navigation software. Readers may recall that this is not the first time Garmin have dipped their toes into this market segment. They had a GPS/Cellphone device some years back that sank without trace and of course the PalmOS based iQue PDA.
But credit where it is due, there is a huge demand for web and data connected navigation devices and executed well it could be a superb solution. The key is good hardware and well integrated software. Imagine a Google Search for a business that can integrate such that any result is piped to the GPS side as your destination?
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