It takes a little bit of creative dot-connecting to follow our thought process here -- but we think we're onto something, so do us a favor and lend us an ear for a second.
Garmin-Asus, of course, kicked off its North American efforts with the forgettable
nuvifone G60 on AT&T, then just followed it up with the
Garminfone on T-Mobile. We'd speculated previously that AT&T might have some sort of US exclusive on the use of the "nuvifone" name, considering that the company strays from that branding in no other market in the world. Additionally, all of ASUS' phones are happening through the Garmin-Asus joint venture right now, so when we found this E600 "PDA Phone" in the FCC this week, we knew right away that we were likely looking at a new nuvifone model. Looking at the filings, we see that it's rocking 850 / 1900MHz 3G, which leads us to believe that AT&T might be ready for round two -- either that, or one of our GSM friends north of the border is looking to deploy it -- but any way you slice it, that G60 is looking pretty long in the tooth.
posted June 10th 2010 11:14AM
goodness I can't sell a g60 to save my life people run from it and the reviews are so bad I try and keep people from lookin at it, if they could do one right with alittle more emphasis on the "phone" and maybe have android or something this could be alright I suppose..
Maybe it's that slick-looking windows mobile handset that popped up awhile ago?
So Garmin-Asus and AT&T still hasn't learned their lessons ?!
Give it Andriod 2.1 and a 3.5mm headset jack as an upgrade from the Garminphone and I'd be happy
Dear Garmin-Asus,
Nobody wants this device. Sorry about your luck. Try integrating Android with your specialized GPS system and you might actually have something that people will want to buy.
Good luck on your future endeavors,
Dean