Video: Garmin's Nuvifone flicked into action
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jimmy Jones @ Jun 18th 2008 1:11AM
$499.99 might be a bit much considering the smartphone market ...phone/gps/multimedia all-in-one devices coming out lately....
poulan @ Jun 18th 2008 4:26AM
It's a Garmin thing like with Sony, they think the consumer gives a shit because of their brand name.
mike @ Jun 18th 2008 6:04AM
Garmin has no brand name.
David @ Jun 18th 2008 6:22AM
Bear in mind that $199 is the subsidized price of the iPhone.
This Garmin would be a lot cheaper on contract.
Izzy @ Jun 18th 2008 8:32AM
Garmin is not a brand name like "GE" or "Ford" but it is still a brand name, as is TomTom. Both Garmin and TomTom make good products, and they each have their own strengths (I have both). The Nuviphone looks interesting, but as others have said the price point (unsubsidized) seems high at this point.
OneLove @ Jun 18th 2008 10:40AM
Any site that forces you to look at an AD is worthless to me. 3...2..1..seconds before the site appears??? Is this the 30 trial version of the website? I expected more from laptop magazine.
OneLove @ Jun 18th 2008 10:44AM
WOW, The videos don't work and the server crashes. lol.
Internal Server Error - The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Striker @ Jun 18th 2008 1:14AM
Here comes clak describing how much this sucks and why the iPhone 3G is sooooooooo much better.
imacmatt09 @ Jun 18th 2008 1:17AM
Clak is a loser. He probably won't be on tonight to comment because its past his bed time.
Striker @ Jun 18th 2008 1:19AM
Thank God he won't be here, I wonder if Ryan can arrange an IP ban for people like clak and McBUNT.
Jimmy Jones @ Jun 18th 2008 1:35AM
He lost a bet to his gf... [that has to be the case..] :-)
Striker @ Jun 18th 2008 1:45AM
What girlfriend? She must be really ugly to be dating clak.
JOSE @ Jun 18th 2008 1:35AM
ill gladly replace my garmin nuvi200 with that nuvifone anyday of the week bring it on!!! pop that baby in and slap it on the windshield lol
Alex P. @ Jun 18th 2008 1:35AM
Just a heads up. If you're using ad blocking software on your browser (webkit/safari for me) then the video doesn't appear. I'm not sure if it behaves like that in firefox because adblock isn't out for Firefox 3.0 yet (that i know of)
Striker @ Jun 18th 2008 1:46AM
AdBlock is out for Firefox 3, I am using it right now and the video doesn't work. Suck it, Apple! Just imagine if everybody used AdBlock and made your advertising money go to waste!
Striker @ Jun 18th 2008 1:57AM
Nevermind, I meant FlashBlock, but that stops the ad as well.
Alex P. @ Jun 18th 2008 2:03AM
@striker
What do you mean by "suck it, Apple!'" what does Apple have to do with ads?
Striker @ Jun 18th 2008 2:59AM
I thought you were talking about the Apple synchronized ads that don't play on Firefox 3.
Jamma @ Jun 18th 2008 6:15AM
Adblock plus is out for ff3, i'm using it now. with the filterset g. updater, i haven't seen an ad in ages
Squid7085 @ Jun 18th 2008 8:40AM
Yeah, took me like an hour to figure that out. :-/ Ended up firing up Firefox and instantly when it loaded the video I realized why.
>Seth
Darren @ Jun 18th 2008 1:54AM
As we all know, touch-screen typing is virtually impossible without an excellent auto-correct system running the background to fix your many, many typos. But the auto-correct system can't do its job if you can't at least hit the space bar reliably to separate the words.
With such a tiny space bar on this thing it will be nearly impossible for people to type even a short, barely-coherent sms message. But I guess those who care about such things wouldn't consider buying an iPhony in the first place.
PEZ @ Jun 18th 2008 7:18AM
SURELY, you are speaking for yourself when you say "people"? It took me all of 3 minutes to get used to touch typing on a virtual keyboard. I think you are just afraid. Very afraid in fact. Aaawe!
Evangelion @ Jun 18th 2008 2:06AM
:)
gabe @ Jun 18th 2008 2:36AM
woo hoo fire fox 3 - not sure how ur much different but okay now
Hawkman @ Jun 18th 2008 3:43AM
What a horrible, horrible website. Ugh. Flash everywhere.
So I didn't view the video because the page nearly killed my browser (Flash on the Mac sucks so hard), but... looks like there are big labels on the touch keys that show when you hit them. Is there prior art for this, or did Apple come up with it and everyone since is just ripping them off? Just curious.
David @ Jun 18th 2008 6:18AM
OR.. Macs suck hard at flash.
Squid7085 @ Jun 18th 2008 8:42AM
No, Adobe just has a s*itty Mac Flash client. When a software program doesn't run well, its normally the software developer to blame. Now if it runs well and the OS is updated causing problems, then it is the OS.
TABi @ Jun 18th 2008 4:10AM
would like to try it
duxxyuk @ Jun 18th 2008 5:11AM
Video doesn't work.... that said my browser hates ads..
Squid7085 @ Jun 18th 2008 8:45AM
The video is a bit hard to watch, but gets the point across. I for one am looking forward to seeing this phone hit the streets, I don't plan to buy one, as I am attached to my iPhone. However, serious competition like this, and especially with a full functioning GPS, turn by turn, POI, ect. in it, it will put serious pressure on Apple to make decent GPS software (Or a third party) I love my Garmin GPS, and I expect nothing from the best from this company. Look forward to seeing the final product.
RyanTV @ Jun 18th 2008 9:21AM
now would Garmin PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD send an update that would make my Nuvi 660 Navigator have a QWERTY keyboard instead of the ABCDEFG madness that it does now?!?!
tptjung @ Jun 18th 2008 9:35AM
But the important thing is that this unit os "so...very...beyoootiful....iss very beyooootiful." But in all seriousness....it seems like an interesting concept. Obviously more GPS-centric.
twistfunk @ Jun 18th 2008 4:45PM
wish i could see the web browser and media functions, but this thing seems pretty solid so far
Victor @ Jun 18th 2008 8:47PM
Its a shame tha Garmin thinks that a phone is only GPS, theres more than that.
That price of $499 would be the dead sentence of it.
jaymol @ Jun 19th 2008 5:14AM
I never thought it was so interesting