T-Mobile Garminfone available June 9th for $199.99

By on May 26, 2010 at 4:55 PM
General May 26, 2010

T-Mobile Garminfone

Good news for everyone who has been waiting on a launch date for the T-Mobile Garminfone, as today it was announced that the GPS-centric and Android-powered smartphone will be available starting June 9th. Priced at $199.99 after a $50 MIR on a 2-year contract, the Garminfone isn’t exactly cheap  for a phone that offers a 3.5″ display, 3 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 and HSDPA to the table, but let’s be real here — the Garminfone is all about its amazing GPS and navigational features. Right, we almost forgot… T-Mobile is currently running a contest in which it’s giving away 5 Garminphones. Check out all of the details for the contest here. Good luck!

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  • Anthony

    man tmobile really are phone whores to bad not a good phone

  • bluehorseshoe

    Great. Maintain a GPS connection but drop the calls…solid.

    • StevenGlansburg

      You aren’t kidding about dropped calls. I have had 5 dropped calls today in a full bars 3G area. Drops right down the line… EDGE, G, then nothing.

      Prior to Tmobile deploying 3G I never dropped a call with them. Its horrible now. I may just switch to Verizon and eat the shit I’ve been talking because T-mobile isn’t even usable lately. The Shadow looks good, but I you all know what I’d prefer…

      • Bunifa@SprintPOS

        Calls don’t drop because they go to 2G. If your signal is fine on 2G it will hold the call until you hang up, they don’t fade into basically nothing.

        Calls don’t go to EDGE when you’re in a call and 3G coverage gets poor. They go to GSM and GPRS.

        Your trolling is easily detectable.

      • StevenGlansburg

        Dude, it is not a means of trolling. I literally dropped every call I made today. It was terrible. When I look at my Cliq when the called gone, its said nothing next to the bars, then G, then EDGE, and then back to 3G. I’ve never claimed to be an expert on how the shit actually works, but the bottom lime is T-mobile’s 3G is unstable in my experiences.

      • StevenGlansburg

        call had gone*

  • user

    Great.

    But I think it’s about time Garmin released Garmin Mobile XT app on Android, to compete with the other software solutions selling now.

    Perhaps they are waiting for Android to go through its immature, fragmented phase and waiting for more feature-completeness.

    • MikeD

      Thats a good point. I didn’t think of it that way. Smart move I guess for Garmin, but I’m curious is Google maps on the device? And which is better?

      • user

        Well, for one, the maps are on-board. With Google Maps you have to download maps as you travel. I’m guessing the thing works totally offline without relying on phone network assistance for a faster GPS fix, too. Just like a regular car GPS unit.

        But I could be wrong.

        If those two are true, then it’s a very different approach to Google Maps, which downloads maps as you travel and doesn’t work without online access.

        I’m sure there are pluses and minuses to each approach.

  • http://music.kwaping.com Kwaping

    I have a $200 budget and am getting a phone in early June.

    Evo… Garminphone. Evo… Garminphone.

    Yeah right! Good luck, Garmin.

  • Htc4life

    an this is there response to the Evo lol tmobile you suck

  • roebling

    Small screen, could be hard to see at a glance.
    How’s it in bright sun?

  • dave

    Had chance to see one at the local t-mobile store last week. Salesman was showing me his HTC 2 when I asked about the A50… He went to the back room and pulled one out.. The screen was much brighter at a handheld distance than the HTC. Not sure what his setting were but the Garmin was brighter and readable.

    The so called Breeze UI was easy to navigate.. three buttons on the front screen and a customizable right side strip for easy access to frequently used aps.. A swipe to the left and you could dig into the other aps and normal android goodies.. 3G+ (7.2mbps max), Wifi, BT, outlook I’m almost sold…

    I like the maps on board, so you can navigate standalone, I would not rely on a GPS that has to maintain a connection to receive map data (Google Amaze etc)…

    A couple of show stoppers though.

    Upgradeable to 2.2, I’d like to have that in writing. Need easy tethering and adobe (maybe)

    GPS accuracy… Needs to be able to achieve WAAS accuracy for me to be comfortable when in stand alone mode.

    Nice to have, garmin TOPO on board..

    I’m new to Android and it seems like its getting there. I’m seriously considering it over win mobile.. I run the office stuff heavily and there seems to be a app for word, excel etc…

    I’m looking for GPS unit with a phone.. This one is coming close. I’m ready to buy but may hold off for some real usage data.

    Very few and sketchy specs, other than qualcoms chipset which is also a vague unless your in the business.. The snapdragon has a 7th gen GPS but GarinASUS went with an earlier processor/GPSone set up. For this phone to work, it cannot skimp on its GPS capabilities..

    Otherwise I’ll keep my V600, get a DeLorme PN60W, and grab a TomTom on sale somewhere…. But I’d rather have it all in on device…

  • Kilari

    Yeah, too bad this didn’t come out a couple months back when I bought my Cliq XT, or too bad my G1 couldn’t have waited 2 months to die. I’d have liked to have the option between the GarminFone or the Mytouch Slide. However I really love my XT, and I don’t know if I’d have really scooped up the GarminFone over the XT. I’d really like a Motoroi tho, I love me some Motoblur.

  • http://www.usbphoneworld.com/ dell ac laptop adapter

    Hey..thank you for your good news for T-Mobile Garminfone…i want to know more about it..

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