I got some quality fourth dimension with aGarmin Nuviphone G60 , riding around Barcelona in the back of a reverse lightning - black Mercedes limo . My hands - on impression : This smartphone - meets - Global Positioning System - meets - media - instrumentalist feels like a winner .
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I do n’t know what it really is : A cellphone that is a GPS or a GPS that is a cellphone . Of course , the mobile phone has everything you could expect from a such a gimmick these days , including a 3 - megapixel tv camera ( with a real shutter push , like it should be ) and a music player , everything connect to the GPS . This seems to be the main point of the Garmin G60 : Everything roll around geo - localisation .
Physically , the Garmin G60 has a good size : A good feeling on your hand , boneheaded than you - know - who , but light and comfortable . The thing is made to be integrated on your car fascia — it descend with a cradle with a suck cup — but it works in your hand as a smartphone just okay .
The first thing I noticed was the complete lack of push button , except for volume and camera shutter on the right side . On the front , there are no forcible button whatsoever , just a nice , colorful 3.5 - column inch touchscreen .
As you could see in the telecasting , the Linux - based operating system is quite agile and appeared solid , although the full HTML internet browser stalled forever and a day endeavor to load a page - which is probably a fault of the 3 G link rather than the G60 itself , even while it is still a beta prototype .
The user interface seems polished , it palpate fast and reactive , very bright and clean , with colorful ikon . It ’s revolve about around three main icon , which I ’m sure are the unity Garmin want to emphasise : Call , Search , and View Map . Call and View Map are quite straightforward , with hunt giving you several option , from confer the six million points of interests — already pre - wealthy with the North America or European single-valued function built - in the G60 — to the on - the - fly Google local search covering . This section feels very much like one of their previous GPS , giving you access to Favorites , Contact , or latterly Found addresses , and allowing to visit or calling any place on one chink .
On the side ( or bottom , if you are in landscape painting musical mode - the Garmin G60 has an accelerator to do it this , although it did n’t feel very sensible while I was try it ) you’re able to see a scrolling list of icon , which gives you access to the other features of the G60 , from the photographic camera to the vane web browser app to the Ciao ! geolocation based societal service to widgets like weather condition . While the chief three push button ca n’t be changed for the ones in the side list , the whole user interface is well unionised and easy to use .
My impression from the hand - on is that Garmin has made what they know to do considerably — a GPS — and they combine it with a 3 gibibyte smartphone is a smooth way . The resultant is a nicely balanced unit that has the advantage of deliver everything you have a bun in the oven in a GPS and all the features you expect in a modern smartphone , all under an easy to use interface .
We will give you a more extensive verdict once we get a net unit , which is supposed to go far in the first half of 2009 .
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