Manufactured by Garmin-Asus, the Garmin Nuvifone G60 is offered by AT&T as an GPS-equipped touchscreen smartphone focused on navigation. Not only does it excel as a powerful navigator, but also brings users some useful features such as email, HTML Web browsing, Wi-Fi, stereo Bluetooth connectivity and a 3.2-megapixel camera.Dominating the whole design is a 3.55-inch anti-glare resistive touchscreen with a 272x480-pixel resolution and 65k colors. Measuring 4.4" by 2.3" by 0.57" and weighing 4.8 ounces, the Linux-based Nuvifone has a simple and clean design just like other Garmin’s navigation devices. You will find a virtual QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode and a portrait keyboard in ABC format for text entry. The equipped accelerometer allows it to automatically switch between portrait and landscape view.
The selling point of the Nuvifone G60 is no doubt its full-GPS system, which offers preloaded maps of North America in 2D and 3D view, plus voice prompted turn-by-turn directions with text-to-speech functionality right out of the box. You will find a database containing millions of points of interest about shopping, food, entertainment, lodging, landmarks and more. In addition, there is a safety feature called "Where am I?", which shows your current location and lists the nearest hospitals, police stations and gas stations around you.
Through the AT&T 3G network, the Nuvifone G60 sports with a number of connected services, including Yellow Pages, Flight Status, Converter and a location-based social networking platform called Ciao. With a monthly subscription, you will also be able to use premium update services like traffic alerts, fuel prices, weather and local events.
Messaging is not the navigation phone’s strength, but it does support geotagged text messaging and a range of email clients such as AOL, Gmail, Hotmail and other POP3/IMAP email accounts. Although there is no multimedia messaging, you can share a photo with friends by attaching it to an email instead. As for entertainment features, other than a full HTML browser, you will get a music player for MP3 playback and a 3.2-megapixel auto-focus camera with geotagging capability.
Other noteworthy functions include USB mass storage, world roaming capabilities, a built-in compass, a speakerphone and a 5,000-entry address book. There are approximately 3GB of user-available memory and a microSD expansion slot that accepts cards up to 16GB.
The Garmin Nuvifone G60 is a unique navigation device that integrates its GPS-based navigation abilities into other features. It may lacks some of the advanced smartphone capabilities, but if you enjoy exploring new places or driving in some remote cities, this phone would be your great partner for finding directions quickly and easily.
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