Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: AT&T, Garmin, Nuvifone, AT&T | Themes: Smartphones
What purports to be a leaked AT&T roadmap has shown that several eagerly anticipated devices are headed to the wireless carrier over the next few months. Among them is Garmin's long-awaited Nuvifone.
Earlier in the summer, Garmin announced that it would finally begin shipping its Nuvifone. Great news because we'd been waiting on the device for what seemed like an age -- bad news in that it was only being shipped to Asian markets. Lame.
Boy Genius Report has what is apparently an internal AT&T roadmap detailing future handsets the carrier will launch. The list includes the BlackBerry 9700 in charcoal, HTC Tilt 2 (both with and without the camera), the HTC Pure (BGR believes this to be the HTC Snap) and lastly the Garmin Nuvifone.
Those of you panicking about having to switch to AT&T for this device can still hold onto the hope that Garmin has signed with multiple carriers as opposed to going the exclusive carrier route.
Check out the specs for Garmin's Nuvifone here.
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if it is exclusive... more great phones ruined by a terrible carrier
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I'm so tired of exclusive contracts.
I'm also tired of the world ignoring CDMA.
Has anyone checked out this device from creative labs:
http://www.zii.com/Developer/SDKProducts.aspx
1080P video from the device to an HDTV... based on Android, now if this were a phone... WOW!
I'm tired of AT&T not introducing other phones with a screen larger then 2.8(outside of the Iphone). As in the Nuvifone they choose the M20 instead of the G60 that has a 3.5 screen.
if it is exclusive... more great phones ruined by a terrible carrier
Why the hate? I have been on every major carrier except Nextel, and ATT has the best service and rates(excluding Metro) where I live in South Florida.
GSM is where it's at... CDMA is an archaic qualcomm disaster... qualcomm is another RAMBUS-like company...
Has anyone checked out this device from creative labs:http://www.zii.com/Developer/SDKProducts.aspx1080P video from the device to an HDTV... based on Android, now if this were a phone... WOW!
if that were a phone.. it would look and operate exactly like an ipod. i see a lawsuit coming.
Why the hate? I have been on every major carrier except Nextel, and ATT has the best service and rates(excluding Metro) where I live in South Florida.
I'm with you. I'm in georgia and when my friends can't get a signal even on verizon I've got nearly full bars with AT&T.
CDMA doesn't make noise when it's near another electronic device. I noticed better call quality when I switched over years ago. They're pretty much the same thing so honestly I don't really care outside of the buzzing.
Certain places have better signal with certain carriers. Where I live it happens to be Verizon. This is why I don't like exclusives. You shouldn't be excluded from one phone or another just because the premier provider in your area doesn't fork over millions to a phone developer.
The first one is locked, the second one (can't remember the model but it's the business focused one) should be open to all providers.
CDMA doesn't make noise when it's near another electronic device. I noticed better call quality when I switched over years ago. They're pretty much the same thing so honestly I don't really care outside of the buzzing.Certain places have better signal with certain carriers. Where I live it happens to be Verizon. This is why I don't like exclusives. You shouldn't be excluded from one phone or another just because the premier provider in your area doesn't fork over millions to a phone developer.
Yup. I'm there too. I don't doubt that people have had problems with ATT, but I have been on it for 8 years and never had any major problems or complaints.
On another note, i guess it would be better for any consumer if the hottest phones were not exclusive to one carrier. This would create more competition between sellers and drive down the cost of the phones (I think)