Review: Garminphone

(End User) - if you're someone who needs navigation capabilities even when
you don't have cellular connectivity, and are looking to streamline to one
device (instead of carrying both a smartphone and a GPS receiver), the new
Garminfone might be just the ticket.

The successor to the rather lackluster Nuvifone (the original Garmin/Asus
navigation handset for AT&T), the Garminfone for T-Mobile (Amazon:
http://xrl.us/Garminphone ) has been enhanced with the Android operating
system (version 1.6 Cupcake) that allows you access to a wider variety of
apps as well as a sleeker design (and CNet calls it a "complete package" of
cell phone and GPS device). Like HTC does with its Sense overlay, Asus and
Garmin provide a UI overlay that makes navigation more prominent on the home
screen, but also includes a widget app on the right side of the screen that
can take you to five customizable home screens.

But for this Android phone, the big draw of the Garminfone is its Garmin
navigation software and built-in maps...

Continued: http://xrl.us/Garminphone2

Updateable at the usual Garmin extortionate prices, presumably v. the
"free" smartphone updates

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:21:17 -0700 (PDT), colinh

That's a dumbass argument. You really think "free" has no cost? You
really think ~$80 for a continent's worth of routing data is
expensive?

Just cause you've got a big dome doesn't get you off the hook for
using it.

wrote:


If I live to 100 I'll probably never understand what that means.

wrote (with clarity & insight):


Many people act as though simply having a human brain separates them
from the rest of the apes but I argue that one must actually use it.