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- andrewlotta, on 01/03/2009, -20/+59Digg me up if you have a Garmin Navigation System and love it.
- BrettyDdgrs, on 01/03/2009, -2/+23You're right, but Apple is freakin Apple and they couldn't even produce a turn-by-turn GPS phone. Plus the iPhone's maps depend on a data plan, so you are screwed if you lose reception in the middle of nowhere, which is the exact place where you'd need GPS.
- TheBlueVulcan, on 01/03/2009, -0/+15I'd hope so, considering Garmin's sort of a GPS company.
- Ryan2845, on 01/03/2009, -1/+10They aren't new, these have been available on their webpage for months:
http://www8.garmin.com/buzz/nuvifone/media_gallery ... - drgmdp, on 01/03/2009, -4/+11finally a *real* GPS on a phone
- hagerman, on 01/03/2009, -2/+7Mirror: http://rorr.im
- BrettyDdgrs, on 01/03/2009, -2/+7Does anyone know which US company will carry this phone? The GPS of this phone looks way better than the iPhone's.
- SeanRoss, on 01/04/2009, -2/+6Why does it have to be revolutionary? Why can't it just be about choices for the consumer?
- inactive, on 01/03/2009, -2/+6sounds like a birth control device
- bobbysan, on 01/04/2009, -1/+5I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't mentioned it, but I think it's refreshing that there is finally an ad where a man is a man again. For more than a decade all the ads show men as being childish p***y whipped idiots who can't do anything without etting direction from their wife. Or, the can't do anything without starting a fire or something and ending up with a hose wrapped around their necks. So, there you go. We haven't been expecting much out of men anymore and we haven't gotten much out of them lately. I'm not saying women should be subservient, but I think there are more than enough ads to comfort sissies and women who think femininity is a weakness rather than a strength, and make middle age boys feel like they are living up to their potential in doing their part to provide for and protect their families futures.
- etruscan, on 01/04/2009, -0/+4Well, I do a lot of hiking and climbing - so I bought a Garmin handheld unit (the Garmin GPSMAP 60Csx) and it's fantastic. Very rugged, waterproof, great maps, expandable memory, and it's WAAS compliant, plus it uses the newer SIRFstar III chipset which was a bonus. I've used it for the past year now during both summer and winter conditions in Ontario and all through the Adirondacks and it still works like a champ.
I think the pairing of Garmin and Google's Android could be a really good thing. From my perspective (as an iPhone owner) this is one of the few phones I've seen or heard about that could tempt me. - caffeinejunkie, on 01/04/2009, -1/+5Ok, I am an iPhone owner, and I was jumping for joy when I watched this video. No, not because I want a Nuviphone, but because this gives Apple no choice but to put out turn-by-turn directions for the iPhone. Maybe they won't do it on this generation of hardware(which would suck because I don't want to have to upgrade hardware), but at least everyone who loves the iPhone can be happy with the knowledge that their next iPhone will have turn-by-turn. Now if only we could get landscape texting.....
- dasunst3r, on 01/04/2009, -0/+4I'd buy this phone in a heartbeat if:
1. It has pre-loaded maps ready to go out of the box
2. It can do turn-by-turn directions
3. It does not need any Internet subscription for navigation - bouche, on 01/03/2009, -8/+12i swear, GPS is making people stupider and stupider every day. Soon no one will be able to think or navigate for themselves without Google or GPS.
- Nephersir7, on 01/04/2009, -0/+4the iphone was a knockoff, so STFU
- Stonekeeper, on 01/03/2009, -0/+4I've been waiting for a decent linux based smartphone. Fair play to garmin, there's a bunch of source on their website.
- David513, on 01/03/2009, -8/+12What exactly does this thing do that is revolutionary? I've seen the screenshots and read a lot about it, but I don't see anything that other platforms aren't doing. If this had come out two years ago, it would have been revolutionary. As it is, it just looks like another attempt at chasing the iPhone and similar devices.
- Awspire, on 01/04/2009, -1/+5So, you'd rather a commercial with a woman rocking the cradle while performing neuro-surgery? Do I smell some bra's a burning?
- chicaneuk, on 01/03/2009, -9/+13Argh - the promotional video made me want to run out of the room screaming. Not only did it sound like some video from the 1940's (Women! Know your place! Never question your husband!) with the woman going shopping and the husband needing to know about stocks and shares, but it was agonizingly corny to boot.
I wouldn't buy one simply because that video was so, so bad. - breakaway, on 01/03/2009, -1/+4Looks cool and all but does it have support for third party application developers?
- Jeepinator, on 01/03/2009, -1/+4They will survive by making devices for integration into other products I imagine. Plus, there is always the marine and aircraft industries that need standalone DPS devices. That's where the company came from any way; that and fish finders.
- Jicksta, on 01/04/2009, -0/+3Did they really write their own firmware for the phone or what? I hate to see people redo the hard work that the Android team has put in for naught.
- sfasu77, on 01/04/2009, -0/+2I guarantee that it will have all of that. I use Garmin XT on my htc touch diamond and it does not require a data connection. This phone will probably cost a ***** though...
- donkz, on 01/04/2009, -0/+2Joe likes to rock out....
marketing manager, start a chain suicide please - treyd, on 01/04/2009, -0/+2What's this? The new diggmirror.com?
- fuhrysteve, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2i swear, cars are making people lazier and lazier every day. soon no one will be able to walk or run for themselves without cars or horses.
- MelvinSchlubman, on 01/04/2009, -0/+2Jon is a goober. How did he ever get Suzie? Oh, I know: he had a Nu:viPhone first, and Suzie found him irresistible.
- jsebrech, on 01/04/2009, -0/+2People are suffering from information and choice overload. There have been a lot of medical studies on the subject, but summed up simply the need for interacting with more and more information is starting to affect our health, and we need to hand off choices to technology to keep living healthy lives, because otherwise our brains just won't be able to cope.
- dunhate, on 01/04/2009, -0/+2they should've made these years earlier. they had the technology. and they shouldn't have charged extra for GPS service on their previous phone. it doesn't cost anything to have my Garmin GPS running so there's better be no extra data charges for this phone too.
..and if u want a turn by turn gps on the phone, forget iphone, get a Nokia N95 (released a yr ago) or N96 which has a real GPS built in. - Fratz, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1I want one of these, but they were supposed to be sold by Q3 2008. I'm afraid that Garmin is never going to finish this, and I'll end up getting another phone instead.
- mbraynard, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1At that point in the game, there was a small market for the phone and it did pretty well within that market.
- jsebrech, on 01/04/2009, -1/+2The iphone didn't do anything new, so by your reasoning it wasn't a revolutionary phone. What the iphone demonstrated was that the features you have matter less than how well they work and interact. Until we get our hands on this nuviphone, there's no way to know whether it is revolutionary or not.
I've felt that we haven't even seen the start of possibilities wrt phone and gps integration. I like a lot of the stuff I can find in their materials that this phone does with that integration:
- it remembers where you parked your car
- it sends gps locations along with e-mails, so you can send people your exact location to meet up
- it can navigate you to the local gas station with the best up-to-the-minute price
- transitioning between phone and in-car gps is as simple as putting it into a windshield gps dock - Ricochetbiscuit, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1Works just fine for me.
- sadilak, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1Garmin in general is pretty good, I have a Garmin 305 fitness device. Pretty neat wrist GPS device
- sadilak, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1TomTom better come out with a real GPS application, with updateable maps (hopefully free) or the nuvifone is a sure winner . Plus the fact that the Nuvifone Ver 2 is going be an android phone(Garmin recently joined the Android club) , which means at that point, atleast on paper, it should be better than the iPhone.
- darthjure, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1Maybe they'll follow the european model and make it available for every network. What a concept! But it's doubtful. I'd like to see it on Virgin Wireless.
- consciousman, on 02/23/2009, -0/+1seems like a cool, but too expensive...
however, I like the Idea of a GPS like phone.. - craterburnsu, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1So get a G1. Then you can access it everywhere.
- MetalliTooL, on 01/04/2009, -1/+2Does it come with the girl?
- thetrza, on 01/04/2009, -1/+2DON'T TALK ***** ABOUT SEGA!
- Thomasaka, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1Or a Windows Mobile phone or even the under-featured iphone can access Google Maps
- inactive, on 01/04/2009, -1/+2Totally agree. Unlike other people, I don't wish for every other phone to suck. More competition the better. If Garmin comes out with a kickass phone, Apple will have to innovate to compete. And vice versa.
- caffeinejunkie, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1It's called marketing. No gadget-lover wants to buy "the other choice," we all want to have the revolutionary product. If it makes you happy, you are welcome to call it your other option.
- bagboyrebel, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1Just got a nuvi 760 for Christmas and I love it. Like rolf said, if you know the area you'll probably know a better way, but in that case why would you even need it.
- kiddee, on 10/07/2009, -0/+1garmin nuvi
http://www.garminnuviz.us
garmin forerunner
http://www.garmin-forerunner.us
garmin oregon
http://www.garminoregon.us - kagayaki1, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1Garmin needs to realize they are not in the hardware business - they are in the software business. Get their navigation onto every GPS-enabled device, charge $30 for it, and laugh all the way to the bank. And start with the iPhone.
- David513, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1This thing is being marketed as a revolutionary product. Did you watch the video? They claim they're revolutionizing life. They're not. It's a "me too" product that doesn't bring anything new to the table. In the business sense, it's going to fail, big time.
- Kalais, on 01/19/2009, -0/+1Interested in the GNSS technology and research behind GNSS? Download audio on it: http://digg.com/general_sciences/Download_free_aca ...
- w3ber, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1I love Suzi !!!!
- --c3--, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1They already have it for Symbian, Black Berry, and Windows Mobile.
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