Garmin Nuvifone gets FCC approval

Every once in a while we're reminded that Garmin's Nuvifone -- announced nearly a year ago -- still exists, and this time around it's none other than the FCC doing the reminding. The curiously-named "Calf" from ASUS turns out to be the Nuvifone once you click through to the label diagrams, and test documentation reveals that 3G is being tested on both Bands II and V -- that's North America-friendly 1900 and 850MHz, for those who aren't up to snuff on their spectrum terminology. With gub'mint certification under its belt, maybe we can push that 1H 2009 release window to 1Q, eh, Garmin?

[Thanks, cl347bv]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 14th 2008 12:54PM]

Garmin is so late with this thing.

It may still win me over though. 2 conditions:
1) It runs on AT&T
2) It has a program/application to make it run like a garmin 705 bike computer or the allsport GPS app. for blackberries

Anybody know if both of these will happen?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 16th 2008 3:46PM]

Hi J, I work for Trimble and would like to mention that the AllSport GPS application is available on a range of AT&T phones including those from Motorola, Samsung and RIM (BlackBerry). Please visit www.TrimbleOutdoors.com for more info. Thanks!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 14th 2008 1:18PM]

So what carrier spectrum in the US do those fall under?

--James

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 15th 2008 12:53PM]

Garmin Nuvifone: The Xperia of 2009.