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AT&T to Release Garmin nuvifone G60 on October 4

Wireless carrier AT&T announced officially on Tuesday that it would add to its offering the Garmin nuvifone G60 starting with October 4. The new handset comes to the operator's subscribers with an easy-to-use location experience and integrates GPS navigation capabilities with voice, data and mobile web functiona...

30 September 2009
05:15 GMT

Garmin's Nuvifone Delayed Again

According to the latest news on the Web, Garmin will set back its nuvifone GPS/smartphones once again, this time pointing towards a release in the second half of the year, at least this is what the company's president and COO Cliff Pemble seems to have said during a recent conference call with analysts. “...

11 May 2009
05:46 GMT

TrailRunner 1.9.1 Displays Lap Info from Garmin Devices

Berbie has released the latest version of its route planning software application, TrailRunner, adding new abilities, as well as bug fixes. Among the new enhancements, Berbie points out to TrailRunner's ability to import and display lap information from your Garmin fitness device. Garmin, for its part, has updat...

6 April 2009
09:15 GMT

TrailRunner (Free) Adds Workout Importer for Garmin Devices

Berbie has released a new update for users of its route-planning application, TrailRunner. The latest version available (1.9.341) adds a new workout importer for Garmin devices like the Edge or Colorado that can mount as a USB mass storage volume, a new optional diary column to the diary table and more.TrailRunner is...

9 March 2009
07:50 GMT

Asus Pulls the P565 Phone Off the Shelves

According to the latest news on the Web, the computer maker Asus, which has been earlier reported to have announced the launch of a new mobile phone, has also pulled back another handset, namely the Asus P565, which was released on the market only three months ago. The reason for which the company has pulled off t...

28 February 2009
04:55 GMT

Garmin Releases Nuvifone Screenshots

Garmin, the company popular for its GPS devices, is on its way to deliver us a new phone, the Nuvifone. As for now, the handset isn't ready, yet the maker has recently released a series of screenshots, which are meant to show that the device is doing very well, and which display the navigation app, Google Local,...

6 January 2009
02:54 GMT

Garmin to Release an Android Phone in 2009

The Garmin brand has been famous for some time now for being the leading company in the GPS industry and the news of an Android Garmin handset set to come in 2009 will surely linger in users’ minds until the project is complete and the device is for sale. In any case, the combination between technologies is alr...

23 December 2008
10:15 GMT

Telstra's GPS-enabled Handsets to Go Garmin

While the world is still waiting for the first-ever Garmin phone to be launched, Australian mobile users might be pleased to find out that Telstra, the largest mobile carrier in their country, has striken a deal with Garmin, via Sensis, in order to improve the capabilities of its GPS-enabled handsets.Following the ag...

8 September 2008
13:13 GMT

Garmin Rolls Out 7 New PNDs in the 7x5 and 2x5 Series

Looks like Garmin is yet another company that simply loves to offer its customers a wide array of choices by launching a very large number of products on one occasion. And that's because the manufacturer of personal navigation devices has just announced the imminent release of no less than 7 new PNDs, 4 of which...

28 August 2008
02:13 GMT

Garmin Designs New Road Tech zumo Especially for Harley Davidson Motorcycles

There are relatively few GPS devices designed especially for bikers available on the market nowadays, but it seems that the demand in this segment has become a pretty serious one as well, as more and more manufacturers try to come up with such products. And the latest announcement regarding a device of this type come...

6 August 2008
06:16 GMT

No Garmin Nuvifone in 2008

Awaited with curiosity by lots of mobile users, Garmin's nuvifone (the company's first mobile device that incorporates phone-related features) will not hit the market this year, as initially announced by the Kansas-based navigation device manufacturer. In a press release issued today, which mostly refers ...

30 July 2008
10:04 GMT

Garmin's Oregon Series Brings Touchscreen Navigation for Outdoor Enthusiasts

Whenever we say "rugged handheld navigator for outdoor experiences", the first thing that comes to our mind is an all-rubber, generally yellow-colored product, with a grayscale display and not exactly very extensive features. However, that's not at all the case with Garmin's latest Oregon series of rugged n...

11 July 2008
05:21 GMT

Garmin Nuvifone to Be Made by ASUS

One of the richest-featured touchscreen handsets to come out this year, Garmin nuvifone, will not be manufactured by Garmin, as many of us have initially thought. Apparently, the nuvifone will be made by ASUS, the giant Taiwanese company that produces, among other things, Pocket PCs, smartphones, notebooks, motherbo...

18 June 2008
03:45 GMT

MWC 2008: GSmart PDAs with Garmin Mobile XT Navigation

GSmart, the mobile phone brand owned by Gigabyte Communications Inc., announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain (11 - 14 February), the introduction of new slim 3.5G GPS PDAs that feature built-in Garmin Mobile XT navigation. The new devices combine the advantages of 3.5G high-speed networks, built-i...

13 February 2008
06:43 GMT

Garmin nuvifone, the Best Mobile Device Ever?

Garmin International Inc., global leader in GPS technology, announced the release of its first mobile phone, Garmin nuvifone, a fully-featured stylish and slim device that combines high-end phone functionality with an advanced personal navigation system and a mobile web-browser. The nuvifone is presented as "a work o...

31 January 2008
11:23 GMT

"Speak to Me, Big Boy" Says Garmin's Latest GPS Navigator

Although Garmin has rolled out a very large number of GPS-based personal navigation devices at this year's CES, it would seem that there's always room for more (or that the company has simply forgotten about one of its models). Thus, the PND-manufacturer has just announced its nüvi 850 model, a rather avera...

21 January 2008
02:08 GMT

CES 2008: Garmin's GPS Navigators Galore

Much like many other consumer-electronics manufacturers on the market, Garmin has the rather irritating habit of releasing a very large number of devices on a single occasion, especially an important one, such as the International CES. Thus, it's really no wonder that the company has announced a vast "armada" of...

4 January 2008
12:36 GMT

Garmin's New Big-Screen Multi-Function Displays: Just for Rich Customers

Although Garmin is best-known as a manufacturer of portable GPS navigators (PNDs), the company has come up with a very wide range of navigation gear over time, including certain devices targeting especially the marine market segment, namely designed especially for boats. And that's pretty much the case with the ...

14 November 2007
03:31 GMT

Pretty in Pink: Garmin's Limited Edition Pink nuvi 200 and nuvi 250 GPS Navigators

"Pink - it's my new obsession/Pink - it's not even a question/Pink -it's the color of passion/'Cause today it just goes with the fashion". Sounds familiar? Well, it would seem that Aerosmith's lyrics are still extremely popular, as pink remains a favorite color for a large number of people ou...

24 October 2007
03:31 GMT

Garmin Launches Mobile XT Navigation Software for Smartphones

Garmin International announced the release of a software application that makes smartphones behave as fully featured Garmin GPS navigators. Garmin Mobile XT uses the phone's built-in GPS capabilities to offer navigation assistance in North America and Europe. Unlike other navigation software, the application can...

3 October 2007
09:10 GMT

Watch Out, Three New Garmin nüvi PNDs Are Roaming the Streets!

Garmin has been on a roll lately, providing customers with quite a few interesting surprises. Thus, after announcing yesterday two GPS devices designed especially for cyclists, the company hits us today with yet another announcement, this time related to its flagship series, the nüvi, and to the launch of three new h...

31 August 2007
09:06 GMT

Garmin's Got Two New Edges over the Competition

The people over at Garmin have launched quite an extensive line-up of GPS-related devices over time, including a special line-up of products aimed especially at recreational and advanced cyclists, dubbed Edge. And in order to complete said line-up, the company has just announced two new models, the Edge 705 and Edge ...

30 August 2007
07:16 GMT

Garmin's Forerunner 50 Sports Watch Tracks Your Workout Wirelessly

Being able to track one's workout is extremely important, especially when the respective person has set himself/herself some fitness goals which he/she is very keen on attaining. And this is the reason why the Garmin company has launched the Forerunner 50, a wrist-wearable device that will help users track their...

9 August 2007
07:06 GMT

Garmin's Latest PND, the nuvi 260, Talks Dirty to the Drivers

As the competition on the personal navigation devices' market becomes increasingly harsher, the big names in the industry try to come up with various technological features and gimmicks that will make their products more attractive to the general public. And that's exactly the case with Garmin's latest...

7 August 2007
07:36 GMT

Garmin Rolls Out nüvi 200W and nüvi 250W Widescreen GPS Navigators

Can you find your way without the help of a GPS navigator? Well, it would seem that the answer provided by more and more people to this question is a definite "No", at least considering just how crowded the GPS devices' market is nowadays. And, in order to leave even less room for its competitors, Garmin - one o...

18 June 2007
04:56 GMT

Garmin's New 5 GPS Units Have Features for Every Consumer

"There can never be enough GPS units"; this seems to be Garmin's motto, as the well-known manufacturer has announced no less than five new models of handheld devices. The new models include the eTrex Vista HCx, eTrex Legend HCx, eTrex Summit HC, sieTrex Venture HCand and eTrex H.The eTrex Vista HCx and Legend HC...

1 June 2007
05:06 GMT

TomTom, Garmin to Make Mobile Phones

Here's some more rumors and speculation on which other companies might be picking up on releasing mobile phones. Aside from Google, Dell, Microsoft and others mentioned before, it now looks like GPS-device vendors Garmin and TomTom might also be considering entering the GPS-enabled handset market with Garmin bei...

10 April 2007
10:40 GMT


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