Before this, we saw the Garmin-Asus's first phone and we thought it was a total disaster. A GPS maker had made a cell phone and if you are going to use it just as a GPS device, it is ok but as a cellphone, it is horrible. This is a second attempt by the company; it is available through T-Mobile. The phone will be available in stores from June 9th and it costs $199.99 with a two year agreement and after $50 mail in rebate. This phone is now better than its predecessor because Nuvifone's issues have been taken care of here. The handset now run on Android platform and sports a sexy design. This device is now equally good as both navigator and smarphone. It may not be as good as T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Slide but if you travel a lot, then it will be hard for you to ignore this handset. Garminfone has a 3.5 inch HVGA capacitive touch screen which gives a resolution of 320x480 pixels. We would have liked a bigger display considering the feature set of this  [...]

There are chances that you haven’t heard Garmin making mobile phones (and we don’t blame you if you haven’t) and Garmin announced that it would be making a smart phone but it was delayed time and again but here we are finally with the product. Garmin makes GPS devices and looking at this phone we think that it should stay with GPS only, use this phone for sometime and you will understand what we are talking about. To start with this phone looks awful and the home screen of the phone makes things worse. We were turned off by the over sized icons of the screen. The other side of the screen which has smaller icons can be scrolled up and down to access more applications. This reminded of Samsung’s TouchWiz interface but the icons cannot be dragged out of the band to the desktop of the phone. The display of the screen is 3.5 inch big and gives a resolution of 272x480 which maybe the reason behind the big icons on the screen. A bigger  [...]