Garmin-Asus Nuvifone G60
Navigation is at the heart of the nuvifone G60, which has an LBS-centric design philosophy. Location information is added to everyday applications including email, SMS, photo sharing, social networking and more.
The quad-band GSM phone with 3.5G is designed for high speed downlink packet access networks and supports Wi-Fi for fast data connections. It has a large 3.55-inch touch screen display that features three primary icons -- call, search and view map. Secondary icons appear on the side of the home screen and can be organised according to the user's preference. Users can choose to view every screen in either portrait or landscape orientation.
The phone's sat nav operates like a Garmin nuvi, with preloaded maps of North America or Eastern and Western Europe. It has millions of points of interest including hotels, restaurants and street addresses that can be easily accessed for turn-by-turn voice prompted directions. If a turn is missed along the route, the nuvifone G60 automatically recalculates a route and gets the user back on track.
It also includes quick access to online points of interest through Internet-enabled local search. Information about local merchants and attractions is continually updated.
Users can also supplement the POI data with LBS-centric applications from Connected Services, a suite of online applications and dynamic relevant data that adds location intelligence to navigation, phone and browser functions. The expandable list of applications and content includes real-time traffic information, White Pages, weather, flight status, local events and movie times.
The nuvifone G60 features an advanced mobile HTML web browser. Users can surf the web on their phone via Wi-Fi or 3G networks. The phone supports POP3 and IMAP4 email such as Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail. The touchscreen soft keyboard is customisable to QWERTY or A to Z, making it easy to send and receive messages. It also includes predictive text.
The phone's three megapixel camera with auto-focus automatically geotags images with a latitude and longitude reference of where the image was taken. This means the use can go back to the location where the image was taken, or email the geo-tagged image to others. It also provides direct access to millions of geo-located landmark and sightseeing photographs available through Google's Panoramio picture sharing site. The Panoramio photos are searchable and are sorted by the distance from the current location.
The nuvifone G60 also allows individuals to identify their exact GPS location while making a phone call through the Where am I? features. It tells users their exact latitude and longitude coordinates, nearest address, intersection, hospital, police station and gas station. And to help drivers find their car in an unfamiliar spot or crowded parking lot, the nuvifone G60 automatically marks the position in which it was last removed from the windshield mount.
Garmin-Asus expects to announce the nuvifone G60's pricing and availability in the first half of 2009.
Image courtesy: garminasus.com
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