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Garmin-Asus at MWCWhile at this MWC Garmin shared their booth with Asus, all maps suggested that it was Garmin’s own place. We searched around, though, and found no Asus-branded booth, so it seemed that Asus were represented only by a couple of people whose major concerns were negotiations rather than their company’s new phones.  Garmin nuvifone G60But now let’s get back to Garmin and their first device, the nuvifone G60 which is in fact a cross between a communicator and a mobile navigator. Housed in a pretty pocketable, yet chubby casing, it runs on Linux and offers its user all basic phone features along with Garmin’s navigation package:
          It looks neat, however in my opinion the G60 is a mixed bag – while it boasts Garmin’s navigation features, I’m not sold on the idea of a great navigation-savvy device that has a bunch of generic phone features thrown in for good measure. Certainly, Mio’s personal navigation devices with support for SIM cards are no match for Garmin’s latest and greatest nuvifone, but how many users will actually want to plug their SIM cards into a mobile navigator with a pretty mediocre feature pack? Maybe I’m missing something, but the G60 failed to impress me. Garmin nuvifone G20This phone, in turn, is based on Windows Mobile OS, hence its bog-standard feature pack, Garmin’s navigation module and a custom UI shell. However we didn’t have a chance to put it through its paces, because the G20, housed under thick glass, was available for viewing only, which led us to believe that they didn’t manage to get everything in gear before MWC so there wasn’t much to show.    All in all, the G20 seems to be a well-designed communicator featuring a no-nonsense design with several color inserts around the perimeter. Äëÿ ñàìûõ ëþáîïûòíûõ õàðàêòåðèñòèêè ìîäåëè:
On balance, the G20 is nothing to write home about, plus its feature pack leaves much to be desired, so I can’t think of a reason why Garmin would need a product like that in their portfolio. TtristementeWhen they first announced the nuvifone it looked like something new, but it’s been a while since then and many things have changed, while all they have managed to put together over this time span is a lackluster set of generic phone features coupled with a solid navigation department, and a communicator they are building together with Asus. Artem Lutfullin (artem.lutfullin@mobile-review.com) Published — 16 February 2009 Have something to add?! Write us... eldar@mobile-review.com
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