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Gadget Show Live 2009: Garmin

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By: , IntoMobile
Friday, April 17th, 2009 at 3:42 PM

Following on from Will’s post just now, and because I also visited the stand today, I’ll give a quick mention to Garmin!

In addition to a wide product portfolio of Sat Nav devices, they also have two Mobile devices – the M20 and G60. The M20 is the Windows-powered device, the G60 is special cut of Linux.

I had the opportunity to play with both, and they seem to handling their multiple functions – unfortunately I had so much else to see, I couldn’t spend longer with them – but I can confirm the touch interface works well :-)

For the moment then, here’s some press kit pics of the devices – M20 (WinMo), followed by G60 (Linux):

I'm the M20...

I'm the M20...

... and I'm the G60

... and I'm the G60

Garmin is positioning very much as Garmin-Asus on the Mobile device side – so it will be interesting to see how these devices fare over the coming 12 months – there are a lot of devices coming to market, so it’s gonna be competitive out there!

Ben

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