A year ago , the satnav people at Garminmade an alliancewith Asustek , the data processor people . A while later , the G60 and M20 lead on sale . In October , webrandedthe G60 with a ‘ DO NOT BUY ’ critique rag .
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So why do I think Benson Lin ’s ( the president of Asustek ’s mobile sectionalization ) bluster of a fresh Garmin - Asustek phone are worth mentioning ? Well , the fact that it ’s run on Android has something to do with it . There have been grumbling about an Android gimmick for some time now , but with Lin claim we ’ll be see it at Mobile World Congress next month , it ’s sound a lot more realistic .
The Nuvifone mountain range of phones ( all two of them , so far ) made by the two companies have n’t exactly fared well in tryout . In our own review article , we moaned about the resistant touch screen , lack of homescreen button , faulty accelerometer , pitiful web web browser , rotten camera and strange interface , and that was n’t even half of it .
A earpiece move Android would sure enough help clear up some of those problem , but evidently hardware will still be an number if Garmin and Asus ca n’t see fit to put a homescreen clit on the gimmick .
In addition to the Android sound , Asustek ’s going to reveal a Windows Mobile 6.5.3 headphone call the M10 at Mobile World Congress . It ’ll have a 3.5 - inch WVGA resistive touchscreen , 5.0 - megapixel camera , run for on a Qualcomm 7224 600MHz processor and surprisal surprise , will also have GPS . The M10 will go on sale in Taiwan in just a few weeks time , for the equivalent of about $ 435 .
Lin is already talking sales figures , despite this inscrutable Android phone not being shown off yet — they’re hope to ship one million Android and Windows Mobile devices , with as many as five models expected to launch this class . There rifle our impression that this relationship would just be a passing furore . [ Digitimes ]
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