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Wednesday February 13, 2008
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I got some time with Garmin's Nuviphone at the Mobile World Congress trade show, but the state of the product only underscored how far it is from market. The only Nuviphone that Garmin was letting folks hold was a non-working model (at left), and though you could see a PC-based demo of the UI and a model under glass with a lit-up home screen, it was clear that the GPS phone's applications are nowhere near ready. The non-working model felt nice and solid, with a soft-touch body and large screen.
Garmin has said the Nuviphone will be coming out later this year, and presumably they announced it this far in advance so they wouldn't get pipped to the post by the FCC. Apple took the same approach with the iPhone, and it's worked out for them so far.
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March 6, 2008 1:16 AM
Those screen-shot looked really aweful. Colour scheme looks like puke.
My past experiences with the Garmin Nuvi was very bad, lots of software bugs, wrong directions, and mysteriously shutting off.
I returned it to BestBuy within a week and vowed never to mess with Garmin again.