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With the Palm Pre, new iPhone, new T-Mobile Android phone, the summer is already heating up rapidly.  Who knows, the addition of the Nuviphone could be right around the corner, which would definitely create an interesting dilemma for new smartphone shoppers. 

On Friday, Garmin President and COO, Cliff Pemble announced some new details about the Nuviphone, specifically about availability in Asia and the United States.  The Nuviphone was announced by Garmin back in 2008, and here we are a year later still no Nuviphone to be seen.  The award for delaying a highly anticipated the phone the best goes to Garmin instead of Palm.  Anyway, so Pemble announced at a shareholders meeting on Friday that the Nuviphone is “getting very close” to launching in the States with a specific carrier. 

Originally, they were going to launch the Nuviphone as an open phone in the market, not having it be restricted to one carrier.  However, due to a large amounts of carriers wanting the Nuviphone, Garmin went back to the drawing board to work on the design of the smartphone.  In the end, they teamed up with Asustek and created two models of the phone, the Linux based G60, and the Win-Mo 6.1 M20.  In addition, they plan to launch an Android based Nuviphone in 2010

For those of us based in Asian countries, Pemble announced that the Nuviphone will be released as an open phone either this month or July.  Still, this makes an interesting case for all the new phones available this summer, especially if it is released in the States.  Consumers are going to have to make a tough decision between all these exciting new phones. 

Via [TWICE]