Garminfone now available from T-Mobile

By on Jun 9, 2010 at 2:00 PM
Retail June 9, 2010

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Anyone looking for a device that’s as much a sat-nav superstar as it is a capable smartphone might want to mosey on over to T-Mobile, as the Garmin-ASUS Garminfone is now available. Running Android 1.6 with a 3 megapixel camera and AWS 3G, the Garminfone really comes into its own with its GPS capabilities which include just about everything you’d get in a top of the dedicated GPS unit for your car. A 2-year stint with T-Mobile will let you get the Garminfone for $199.99 after a $50 MIR, but if contracts aren’t your scene, you can grab the handset outright with Even More Plus for $449.99, or break that up into 20 monthly payments of $22.50.

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  • The Prophet Mohammad

    It makes no sense to get a phone without a contract in the US. The rates are all inflated and the only way you save is if you get a significant discount on a phone from signing a contract. You may save 10 dollars or so a month with their Even More plus plan, but that is only if you keep their outdated POS phones for a whole two years, which simple doesn’t happen anymore.

    • The Prophet Mohammad

      Oh, and their coverage blows outside of the three or four largest major metropolitan areas in the US.

    • Joey

      It depends on the phone and your tastes. Example: Currently a T-mo non-contract plan is $10 less than the contract version. After 2 years, that’s a $240 difference. So it’s worth looking at the phone price, on contract and off. If I can save $240+ on the phone with a contract versus, then I’m coming out ahead. Otherwise, I’m better off buying the phone separately. So for the myTouch 3G slide, it’s $180 vs $430. $430-$240 = $190. So I’m $10 better off getting it on contract. Something else, like say the T-mo Tap, is free vs $150. $190-$240=-90. So if I buy it off contract, I’m $90 ahead after two years.

  • phone_booger

    3st

    but yeah, i agree with The Prophet.

  • blkrabb1t

    Android 1.6 at launch? In 2010? That is just horrible!

    • Laz

      and will probably never see an update!

    • FML

      OH NO!!!! I forgot about this phone. I just left tmobile to get an EVO. For the same price I coulda gotten a Android 1.6, 528mhz, 480×320 garmin phone. CRAP!!!!

  • informed

    Hey Prophet, have you even used T-Mobile? 3 or 4 metros??? You are out of your mind. T-Mobile has plenty of coverage. Is it really that fun to bash those things which you know nothing of? Loser…

    • The Prophet Mohammad

      Yeah I have used them. I know plenty about them. Christ, I even know what the Even More Plus plan. 3 to 4 major cities is a generalization, but my point still stands, their data coverage is awful. I travel for pleasure and work, so I notice when stuff like data coverage sucks outside of a chunk of the 95 corridor.

      • ~Phel

        Anyone else find it amusing that “the prophet mohammad” using Christ to make a point! lol. Well played sir

      • Chut Pata

        Probably just another Republican voting, Obama hating, Sarah Palin loving, Rush Limbaugh listening, Flat Earth believing, Dinosaur denying, Islamophobic trying to convert a technology blog into Islamophic shit slinging site.

        Other than that, to the best of my limited knowledge of Islam, Mohammad did believe in Jesus but not as a son of god but something like a prophet. So he must have used Christ to make a point.

      • jaymax

        The world doesn’t revolve around the “95 corridor” There’s plenty of places that have great coverage from TMO outside of your little world.

  • anon

    At least tmo gives you a no-contract option at a discount. You don’t have to buy a phone from them, that’s the beauty of it. Go to verizon and be forced to choose from whatever devices they offer on their cdma network and enjoy paying the highest rates in the country.

    • Laz

      Not the trophy I look for when buying cell service…

  • Verizon Guy

    FAIL–we lost interest at “Android 1.6″. Seriously why did they even bother? I’d rather get a Nexus One/Incredible/EVO/Droid X and use free Google Nav or CoPilot Live if I need pre-loaded maps.

  • phonejunkie30

    who gives a fock about this daum phone. get a real android phone or something better throw this trash away.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Southwest Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas, USA

    • ProudiPhoneOwner

      You want trash? Did you play with ATT’s Nuviphone? That was a POS!

  • phonejunkie30

    @FML,

    you did the right thing homie

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Southwest United States

  • RickC

    Half of you probably could not even list the differences between android 1.6 and 2.0.

    Oh and Garmin added their own multitouch to 1.6 so if you were playing with this phone you probably would not even know it was 1.6.

  • David

    The Evo poops all over this POS. 1.6? Fail

    • Malcolm

      So, what are you going to do, compare every new phone to the EVO. Since I did not end the last sentence with a question mark…it is meant to be rhetorical.

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