I guess we shouldn’t be surprised after plenty of earlier delays, but during a conference call, Garmin admitted that their two smartphones won’t make it until the second half of this year; the last rumour we had heard of a release date pointed to June, which sits dab-smack at the midpoint, but it’s easy to…
Garmin nuvifone G60 bringing the Linux-love in June?
Garmin and ASUS have been hard at work on their nuvifone lineup. The Garmin-ASUS nuvifone M20 was recently launched as a slim GPS-centric smartphone powered by the Windows Mobile platform. But, the duo’s new-found smartphone aspirations don’t stop there. Garming-ASUS are putting the finishing touches on the bigger, and arguably better, nuvifone G60. And, rumor…
ASUS Announces Wi-Fi Hosting P835
ASUS has just launched the P835, rather impressive touchscreen device running Windows Mobile 6.1. The screen clocks in at 3.5″ and 800 x 480 pixels, and comes along with a 5 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, quad-band EDGE and tri-band UMTS. Opera Mobile comes included, with navigation made possible by a trackball, and above all, it…
nuvifone G60 and M20 Video Demo
Gamin-Asus had announced their second nüvifone late last week before Mobile World Congress, and we got some time to play with it here at the show. Although there’s been a saddening lack of new Android devices here at the show, Asus has already confirmed that they’ll be doing something with it this year – the…
Garmin-Asus releases G60 specs; Introduces nuvifone M20
You’ve probably already heard that Garmin and Asus have formed a partnership to jointly develop location-aware smartphones. Today we have two news to report from the new company. Let’s roll, shall we? First, we got the official specs of the G60, aka the original nüvifone. The Garmin-Asus’ smartphone will come with a quad-band GSM radio,…
Garmin and Asus Announce Partnership, Showing nuvifone at MWC
Garmin’s GPS-centric nüvifone has been on the rocks for awhile, last aiming for an early 2009 release, but they have not only nailed down that timeframe, but also announced a full-blown partnership with Asus, and rebranding the device as the Garmin-Asus nüvifone G60. The team-up isn’t totally uncalled for, since Asus was tapped earlier to…
ASUS CEO Confirms EE Phone, to run Android?
In a rather high-brow CES interview talking about a future where the TV becomes the focal point of all family activity and every single wall is a display, ASUSTek’s CEO Jonney Shih let slip of what he called an EE Phone, which would potential control all of these interfaces. When it comes to low-cost technology,…
Asus to launch Eee phone in March?
File this under “rumors” as haven’t heard anything official from Asus, but apparently the Taiwan-based computer maker is planning to release an Eee-branded mobile phone in March of this year. According to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN), the launch of the low-cost Eee phone will be part of the company’s revised strategy to focus…
ASUS P565 gets real – 800Mhz and VGA resolution from ASUS
In the mobile space, there’s no such thing as too many megapixels, too much display resolution, too much storage space, or too much processing power. Mobile phones are starting to become more powerful than computers of just a couple handfuls of years ago, and we’re slowly seeing more and more smartphones with spec-sheets that read…
ASUS gets real with O2 XDA Zest on Pay&Go pre-pay plans
Remember the XDA Zest Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone that was rumored to be in the works in ASUS’s R&D labs? Right, well it looks like ASUS has finally gone live with the WinMo handset on O2’s network. Known officially by its rebranded moniker, the O2 XDA Zest is being billed as the first XDA-branded smartphone…