T-Mobile Garminfone review

Hands on with the T-Mobile Garminfone
The T-Moble Garminfone is Garmin’s first Android smartphone released in North America. Produced by the Garmin-Asus partnership, it includes many of the goodies you would find on a nuvi, including North American maps, junction view, lane assist, Where am I?, tracklogs and multi-destination routing.

My Tracks for Android

My Tracks is a free Android app that allows you to record and share GPS tracks. Incredibly easy to use, it layers your track onto Google Maps or satellite view (as shown above). Getting the track off your phone is as simple as saving the track, selecting the drop down More button and then [...]

Coming to the US (eventually)

There were a couple of major announcements made yesterday by TomTom and Garmin-Asus; unfortunately they didn’t involve products for the US, at least not yet. I do expect that all will be making it to our shores eventually. The Garmin-Asus team will need to romance a carrier first, while TomTom just seems to have [...]

Garminfone coming to T-Mobile

UPDATE: Read my hands on review of the T-Mobile Garminfone.
Garmin and T-Mobile have announced the Android-powered Garminfone, which will be exclusive to T-Mobile. This seems to be a US version of the nuvifone A50, previously announced for some Asian and European markets. That model got quite a few positive reviews, unlike the original nuvifone G60. [...]

Garmin-Asus nuvifone A50

Garmin-Asus has announced their first Android phone, the nüvifone A50. It includes on-board maps, lane assist and junction view, comes with a car mount, and is compatible with Garmin’s CityXplorer maps. Nothing shocking there; the biggest news is availability – the A50 is expected to be available in the first half of 2010 in [...]

Google Maps Navigation review

Not the nav app you’re looking for
Google Maps Navigation (referred to hereafter as GMN) is a free navigation app for Android version 1.6+ phones in the U.S. I bought the Motorola Droid recently (which I absolutely love BTW), so I thought I’d share my experiences with this much discussed free navigation app.
One important thing [...]

Google Maps Navigation launches

It’s official, Google has launched a free turn-by-turn navigation app – Google Maps Navigation. It’s in beta, and is only available for Android 2.0 phones (e.g., Verizon Droid), but I can already say that this is a huge change for the GPS navigation industry.

Speculation on Garmin Android strategy

A couple of things got me thinking about Garmin's Android strategy yesterday. One was a post by Phandroid, speculating that the Garmin Approach G5 may morph into an Android app. The other was a question by a reporter about handheld device trends.
I'm not convinced that Garmin will create applications for devices manufactured by others, [...]

Garmin confirms Android phone under development

Just got the following from Garmin, in response to the DigiTimes story we mentioned earlier today:

The nüvifone we announced in January 2008 does not have an Android OS. The nüvifone OS is based on a modified version of Linux. We do have an Android-based phone under development; however, we are not releasing any additional information [...]

Will Garmin nuvifone switch to Android platform?

Yesterday Garmin signed onto the Open Handset Alliance, developers (along with Google) of the open Android mobile phone platform. Previously, it has appeared that the nuvifone would use a Linux OS. I'm assuming Garmin is way too far along in development to switch to Android now, but perhaps this is where the second generation will [...]