Going to jump in with a quick post on Garmin’s latest announcement on their new phone.
I’m a happy owner of an iPhone, but when talking to a friend yesterday and the topic of smart phones came up, I struggled to recommend anything else other then the Treo he already owns.
Well, now I may have a new recommendation for him.
The Garmin Nuvifone has a clean exterior look to it, same form factor as the iPhone (at least it looks that way, of course I haven’t seen one of these yet), the phone app looks similar to the iphone, and seems that it has a full web browser on board. Direct compitition with the iPhone? Yes.
A few things pop into mind right off the hop. I’ve never owned a Garmin GPS device, so bare with me if they already tackled these;
1) Does it play music? I hate to say it, but after the iPhone, I wouldn’t consider owning a phone that doesn’t play music.
2) What engine is the browser going to be based on? I’m dreading that 2008 is going to be the start of a mobile browser war. IE, Safari, what’s next?
3) Will it support flash?
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No, I’m kidding.