Android Powered Garminfone Steers into T-Mobile
Android Powered Garminfone Steers into T-Mobile
Posted 06/11/2010 at 5:24am
| by Paul Lilly
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Rolling out of T-Mobile this week is the Garminfone, which as you might have guessed is both a smartphone and GPS. Asus had a hand in building the device, opting to stuff a Qualcomm MSM7227 processor (600MHz) into the 4.57 inch x 0.5 inch by 2.46 inch smarthpone rather than the far sexier Snapdragon chip clocked at 1GHz.
Other design decisions include a 3.5-inch display with a 320 x 480 resolution, 4GB of internal memory, and a 3 megapixel camera. Living up to its namesake, the Garminfone comes with extensive navigation features with turn-by-turn directions, voice, weather, traffic, and gas prices, and you can even record your own custom voices as navigation prompts with Garmin Voice Studio.
Unlike other smartphones, where GPS is typically tacked on as an afterthought, the opposite holds true for the Garminfone - it's primarily a GPS with smartphone capabilities. Layered on top of Android is a custom home screen, though it does come preoloaded with Google Mobile Services giving you instant access to Google Calendar, Gmail, YouTube, and GoogleTalk.
The Garminfone is available now for $200 after $50 mail-in-rebate card and with a 2-year service agreement.
Image Credit: T-Mobile
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athlon11
June 11, 2010 at 5:48pm
Um, phones have had real GPS for years, the Droid, Nexus One etc. all have GPS receivers built into the phone, just as accurate as any stand alone unit, in fact the Droids receiver gets much better reception than my Garmin GPS had.
redtech116
June 11, 2010 at 11:37am
Probubly just that crappy GPS from the cell towers, not the real thing off the satalites.
why i will never trust GPS on a phone
aviaggio
June 11, 2010 at 8:14am
Seriously, when is T-Mobile going to have a good next-gen Android phone???
BeEazy10
June 11, 2010 at 7:06am
Ugh They should have just put a Snapdragon chip into the phone, but i wouldn't mind trying it out for ten day or so the phone looks like it don't need a nice little dragon in it
bikerbub
June 11, 2010 at 6:12am
sure android is cool as hell by itself, what with all the apps and customization, but this is really getting down to the niggy gritty of open source.
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