You know ASUS built this phone so I don't understand why it's such a clunker? I guess making excellent computer hardware does not translate into making a good phone. #garminnuvifoneg60
Garmin picked a really bad time to launch a smartphone with a proprietary OS, and on top of that they did a bad job of it. I hope they have already locked all their OS devs in a room with 10 copies of Android for Dummies and that they'll be able to do a Blackberry-Stormesque turnaround. #garminnuvifoneg60
@weatherman: It's almost too late (see Google Navigation, TeleNav et al). I foresee Garmin returning to their avionics and maritime roots to survive. #garminnuvifoneg60
actually, since the plug is MINI-USB, you can use any motorola or blackberry charger and it will work just fine, we've been using a blackberry wall charger on our demo G60 in the store for a week now
@Hoodean Vafaei: Not the point. The point is this phone is an IN CAR NAV DEVICE. Common sense would dictate it should come with an IN CAR POWER ADAPTER.
If I bought a dedicated GPS and had to use my blackberry charger because the store didn't even carry the correct charger, I wouldn't be happy. This is no different.
I hate these ambiguous reviews where you have no idea what the reviewer thinks. Like it? Not like it? for the love of God, where do you stand?!?
Seriously, Garmin pays people a lot of money to sit in rooms and figure this stuff out. Which they apparently didn't. Garmin just received valuable advice worth more to them than the salaries of all the sycophants who steered them in this direction.
Garmin should absolutely leverage their software to create apps that could trounce the competition.
As much as I love my Nuvi, there are aspects about it that are prehistoric compared to my iPhone. A Garmin app on my iPhone would rule.
A failure as a gadget but will it fail as a product? Only if people don't buy it and the simple interface is appealing. I would not be surprised if this sold well despite its serious faults. The Garmin brand will suffer for this.
What a shame. I feel like I've been reading about the eventual release of this phone for years now and this is what they come out with?!
I'm not sure what niche this GPS-Phone combo would have filled now that some sort of GPS can be found on so many type/classes of phones (iphone having full fledged GPS apps and Android getting there), but I still feel like this is a huge opportunity wasted... /shakes head....
@adrianblack: Thank you. I was about to exclaim how absurd it is that you can simply buy the maps for any Garmin GPS and use them, but you have to pay to do it on their phone. If it's just for added services like traffic, then... that actually sounds pretty great.
Of course, we'll have to see how it fares as a phone. I love my Garmin GPSes though... if only their maps had some idea which businesses were where and whether they were still in operation - an epic task, I know.
Frankly, the video looks like an audition tape for a smartphone that really wants to be on American Idol, if American Idol were a competition for wannabe iPhones instead of wannabe singers.
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If I bought a dedicated GPS and had to use my blackberry charger because the store didn't even carry the correct charger, I wouldn't be happy. This is no different.
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Seriously, Garmin pays people a lot of money to sit in rooms and figure this stuff out. Which they apparently didn't. Garmin just received valuable advice worth more to them than the salaries of all the sycophants who steered them in this direction.
Garmin should absolutely leverage their software to create apps that could trounce the competition.
As much as I love my Nuvi, there are aspects about it that are prehistoric compared to my iPhone. A Garmin app on my iPhone would rule.
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I'm not sure what niche this GPS-Phone combo would have filled now that some sort of GPS can be found on so many type/classes of phones (iphone having full fledged GPS apps and Android getting there), but I still feel like this is a huge opportunity wasted... /shakes head....
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Only thing left to be said
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Of course, we'll have to see how it fares as a phone. I love my Garmin GPSes though... if only their maps had some idea which businesses were where and whether they were still in operation - an epic task, I know.
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