Garmin Nuvifone touched, prodded, abused, initial UI reports are positive

June 17th, 2008 | Category: Cellphones, GPS

It’s about duration someone got his hands on a working Garmin Nuvifone. The folks at Laptop Magazine were lucky sufficient to spend some day with a prototype, reporting that the interface was snappy, the screen is nice and big, and the UI appears to be very GPS-centric. They tried the QWERTY keypad which is “spacious enough” and uses an auto-complete dictionary. The main interface presents a row of icons for calling, searching, and mapping, and finger swipes stream them across the screen. Included apps, at

least in that model, were SMS, Google Search, mail, and media player. All said, some apps didn’t load properly and some of the display units were frozen in bug limbo, but we’ll give Garmin a pass there as these were clearly early pop quiz units. So a couple questions remain: Is it still coming out Q3 of that year, and will it still run $499? Is it coming in white? Follow the Gadgets link for more impressions and hands-on pictures.

Original post by Joshua Fruhlinger

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