Garmin Nuviphone
January 31st, 2008 
Tags: Bluetooth, Garmin, Google, Navigation, WiFi
Garmin have announced the Nuviphone, a mobile phone with SatNav capabilities. It has a 3.5″ touchscreen, full browsing and PIM capabilities, HSDPA, Quad-Band (3.5G), WiFi, Bluetooth, and is roughly the same size as the iPhone. As it uses a variant of the same proprietary OS as that on their SatNav devices, the UI will be familiar to many, and will have “millions” of POIs, and will have turn-by-turn voice prompts. However, it will also have Google Local Search capabilities (and potentially other Google apps such as Google Talk, and the camera may integrate with Google Panorama). Finally, it will use the phone network connection to get updates via Garmin Online for real time traffic, fuel prices, news, weather and stock prices (although historically these have been US only data). It is expected to be released in Q3 this year, so in time for Christmas.
March 18th, 2008 at 9:20 am
[...] are a lot of rumours flying around that TomTom is planning a response to the Garmin nuviphone by producing their own equivalent. The device will possibly combine an HTC hardware device with [...]
June 30th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
[...] point about the announcement is that it refers to a “range of devices”; whilst the nuviPhone is an obvious contender, we wonder whether Garmin is planning to start offering more 2 way [...]
July 31st, 2008 at 9:18 am
[...] originally announced the nuviPhone back in January (see here), and said they hoped to release them in Q3 (ie in time for Christmas). Well, Garmin have just [...]