Garmin ASUS Garminfone Dated and Priced
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Okay, maybe I was a little hard on the Garmin-ASUS Garminfone when we covered it’s big unveiling. At any rate, the phone’s release date and pricing structure from T-Mobile have been confirmed via a leaked T-Mobile promo flyer. The personal GPS-smartphone hybrid is coming on June 2nd for $199.99 with a two-year contract.
In addition to the subsidized price, a new Garminfone out of contract will cost you $599.99 (!) which is right up there with phones like the HTC Droid Incredible and the HTC EVO 4G. Probably just a *bit* too high, especially for a phone that nobody is expecting much from.
The phone will be running Android 1.6, so no Froyo. The screen size is nice and big, give it that, at 3.5-inches, mainly because it’s meant to double as a personal GPS unit for your car like Garmin’s more traditional products. There will be a custom UI on top of Android 1.6, but the phone will still be able to use apps from the Android Market.
The T-Mobile flyer for the phone mentions “Navigate via text message”, which sounds like it could be a neat feature where you can automatically import addresses sent to you into the GPS side of the phone. It’s nice, but probably not worth the $200/$600 they’re asking. The phone also promises a better “media-centric” experience than the first Garmin-ASUS phone attempt, the universally-lauded Nuvifone.
Does this Garminfone appeal to you?
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“The phone will be running Android 1.6, so no Froyo.” Yeah, it’s not running the brand new version that was first announced less than a week before you typed this. SORRY FOR THAT.
It’s not impossible to assume that ASUS could have heard about the next version early and had made arrangements to have the phone ship with Android 2.2, or at least Android 2.1