Garmin Nuvifone to rock out with Windows Mobile 6.5

By on Nov 11, 2009 at 2:38 PM
General November 11, 2009

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You know your proprietary mobile OS isn’t all that great when we go ahead and say: thank heavens for Windows Mobile. Garmin/ASUS have announced that their M20 “GPS that can make phone calls” will now ship with Windows Mobile 6.5, and “all” current M20 owners are eligible for the free upgrade. Sweet. The two companies claim 6.5 will be available in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Czech, Turkey and elsewhere on the M20 by the close of 2009. No love for Western Europe and the US? Oh well. WinMo 6.5 for the M20 is nice and all, but what about all those fellas who purchased a G60?

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  • ankit

    I care less about this phone it is a pointless phone I’d rather buy a navigation unit. But, hey guys first.

  • http://www.twitter.com/supmahBRUDDah Brak

    Did they not do extensive focus group testing on the phone or something? To make such a big move as the OS of your product just means it wasnt very well thought out/tested. I expected more from Garmin.

  • Bob

    So it’s going to rock out with it’s WinMo C*ck out???

    • Kappy79

      More like jam out with its clam out.

  • Dwayne

    They shouldn’t have made the phone in the first place. It was a mess from the start.

  • T dot

    COMPLETE FAIL BGR MORE ON THE DROID SERIES PLEASE THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS IN THE MOBILE INDUSTRY NOW

  • Chris

    I really don’t get this article…

    The M20 always shipped with Windows Mobile, and now that 6.5 is out, it will no longer ship with 6.1

    The G60 ships with a proprietary OS… and so of course nothing has changed.

    Its not like Motorola, LG, Samsung, Sony, etc. should dole out Android or WinMo to all their devices with proprietary OSs. And its not as if them making a smartphone with either WM or Android really says anything about the quality of their proprietery OS, other than the fact that it is more of a featurephone OS than a smartphone OS.

    So… the question remains, why the Garmin software hate? (If anything its the chucky, small screened hardware that we should be complaining about).

    • Bob

      I agree. The OS is first, but an OS without solid hardware is a waste of time. That’s why I hate the iPhone. That garmin screen is INCREDIBLY small!!

  • tRICKster

    @ t dot
    How can you even type with j dizzles c*ck in one hand and the other one up your ass.

    You are truly a troll.

    This is not your playground.

  • jdizzle

    Why did they even bother making a phone knowing that the iPhone was out there and all other phones are inferior?

  • Lawl

    Jdizzle

    Are u saying they should just stop making all other phones than the iphone

  • MobilePaddy

    There is no incentive for Garmin to use Android with Android 2.0 offering free turn-by-turn directions. Whatever chance GPS manufacturer’s have to survive it doesn’t lie with Android.

  • saywhat

    the fact that they were so easily able to switch things to winmo must mean that they kinda had an idea that this was going to happen

  • DroidDoestheiphoneâ„¢

    F*A*I*L

  • ontheFritz

    Is anyone actually excited about this? HTC Passion with Google Nav anyone?

  • Mike

    Smells like desperation. Windows Mobile needs to just go away. Nice try Garmin. Too little, too late.

  • Therealcreesh

    This thing is a brick.

  • MATTXtwo

    I fall to the trick…
    this thing is useless
    Because of this thing..
    the battery run out for 2day on if i never touch the screen
    the program a bit messy
    the navigation bother me when ever i move a slide bit
    the speaker is almost can’t hear by your ears
    the ciao as the same as local provider tracking charge
    (expensive)
    I will never buy stuff like this from immature manufacturer..never ever
    I should buy something like an iphone(Apple)

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