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Today, Garmin detailed a bit more about their Nuvifone that has been in development for some time. Asus will play a much larger role as Garmin announced a partnership with the company to build the phone and help support it. The first in an expected full line of phones will be the Nuvifone G60. The phone is expected in the first half of this year at an undisclosed price, to undisclosed regions on undisclosed carriers. Awesome stuff right?
Don’t get down just yet. The phone looks to have some interesting connected services value propositions:
Traffic
Now a staple in decent GPS devices, the G60 will have full traffic updates and one touch rerouting. Nothing too ground breaking here, unless it was left out.
Weather
As you’d expect from a smartphone, you can get weather on this. Again not that big a deal.
Panoramio
This interesting development is a Google product and is designed to allow users to navigate to photos that have been geotagged. This can be a big deal, especially if you are in an unfamiliar place but know a landmark you want to get to. Imagine you are in NYC for the first time and want to navigate to the Empire State building to do battle with a giant ape. Simply search for a photo that has been geotagged of the building and hit navigate to. Simple. Sometimes POI databases just don’t work well for tourists and these geotagged photos will fill that gap.
The Panoramio team had 1million photos back in 2007 when work on the project seemingly stopped. Their blog is updated with monthly contest winners and updates for photos in Google Earth. Now I get geo tagging photos.
Ciao!
Garmin wants you to be able to connect to your friends, no matter how fragmented your social network is. Ciao promises to bring your location to various networks. Simple yet complex and of course, cool.
Safety cameras?
Get alerted to safety cameras that might photo you as you pass by, whether or not you are breaking some kind of law. Handy.
Flight Status
Garmin is targeting the business market with this phone and us busy business men travel a lot, or at least used to travel a lot before the downturn. Garmin brings this data into an easy to find application.
Local search
Local search is on this connected device as well. No real surprise there.
Any one will tell you success for a business is location, location, location. Will the same be true for our mobile phones of tomorrow? I am betting yes. How about you?
Product site: [Garmin-Asus]
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