Garmin’s Nuvifone teases its way through another trade show

August 27th, 2008 | Category: Cellphones, GPS

Oh, Nuvifone, how you disappoint us. by here at IFA we just managed to get a Garmin rep to whip out his Nuvifone prototype for a quick look, but sadly, nearly a year after the device was first announced, there really wasn’t anything new to see. We still aren’t allowed to take video of the interface, or really see much of the phone other than the domestic screen, and when the rep tried to show us how the Nuvifone kicks the iPhone’s ass in navigation, the Nuvi promptly crashed

— so at least those two have that in common. Not that we should be surprised, Garmin mentioned final month that the phone had been delayed into 2009, but we’re quickly running out of patience, as well as any scrap of remaining hope for that thing to actually matter when it does reach. Peep the gallery for a little bit of iPhone 3G versus action.

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