Finding our way with Garmin’s nuvifone

Phonemakers have been making phones with navigation features for a while, so we suppose it makes sense for navigation companies to start adding phone features to satnavs. Thus Garmin was sort of showing off its nüvifone at the Mobile World Congress. We say ’sort of’ because it didn’t have any working models available for handling – the pictured devices were kept under perspex.
Still, you get the picture.
The nüvifone (please note the umlaut) is designed to sit neatly in your car and tell you where to go while linking into mobile data services such as Google to help you find the sort of restaurant or hotel you’re interested in. And then the babysitter can ring you while you’re on your starters to let you know Jack’s been sick and she can’t find Kylie.
Yeah, we’re just being mean.

It looks a fairly smooth device. Offering quad band/3.5G (GSM/GPRS/HSDPA), the phone also comes with wi-fi features, a 3.5 inch touchscreen, Bluetooth 2.0, a 3MP camera and provides for web browsing, email, IM and SMS, and links into Garmin’s Online platform too.
More images after the break.

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