Garmin: revenue from phone segment in Q2 was ‘below our plan’
Garmin's second-quarter results hit the wires this week, and overall, the company seems to be pretty healthy; its automotive, outdoor, aviation, and marine businesses all posted growth, average selling price was up, and shipped units grew a solid 8 percent year-over-year. If you read a little deeper, though, there's one segment that undelivered -- smartphones, a joint venture the company shares with ASUS -- which contributed $27 million in revenue in the last three months.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: entry, garmin, garminfone, initial-pricing, q210, the-competitive, the-smartphone, waltz
T-Mobile Garminfone now on sale, price still boggles the mind
As promised , T-Mobile has brought the Garminfone to retail today for $199 after $50 rebate on a new two-year contract, calling into question the viability of selling a nav-centric Android device with an HVGA display, 3 megapixel camera, and no 3.5mm headphone jack for $250 out of pocket in the store.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: 5mm, certainly-seems, engadget, entry, garminfone, like-the-better, money, question, result, retail-today, viability
T-Mobile Garminfone confirmed for June 9 launch, still a whopping $200 after rebate
Alright, you can go ahead and book up your June 2nd with other plans , because we've just heard straight from T-Mobile that the Garminfone has been confirmed for a June 9 launch "at select T-Mobile retail stores, select authorized dealers, and online" for the same $199.99 after $50 mail-in rebate on contract that we'd already known. We'll admit, we'd secretly been hoping that T-Mobile would've wowed everyone and dropped the launch price by $50 or $100 considering its midrange specs and the fact that you'll have to drop an astounding $250 in-store to take the thing home, but it's not to be; in a few months, perhaps
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engadget, garmin-asus, garminfone, launch, mobile, plans, retail, secretly-been
T-Mobile Garminfone looks confirmed for June 2 release
It seems that your wait for Garmin's first T-Mobile-bound phone -- the aptly-named Garminfone -- might be a short one.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: 5mm, engadget, garmin, garmin-asus, garminfone, looks-confirmed, start-lining, store-at-four
Garmin-Asus Garminfone review
The holy matrimony between smartphone and personal navigation device just keeps getting stronger, scorning dedicated GPS units like forgotten flings and leaving navigation-free handsets wandering lost and alone. Garmin-Asus has been flirting with the perfect bond with its Nuvifone series for some time now, but rather tragically from a branding perspective its strongest attempt yet comes without the nuvi moniker. It's the T-Mobile Garminfone, and its Android underpinnings go a long way toward making the best mix of PND and smartphone to date.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: asus, engadget, featured, garmin-asus, garminfone, gps, its-strongest, perfect, perspective, pnd, smartphone
T-Mobile Garminfone official: Android, 3 megapixels, zero nuvi branding
We've known that Garmin-Asus has been working on a phone with T-Mobile's 3G bands for a while, but now we finally know what it is: meet the Garminfone. Yes, just "Garminfone" -- you won't find an ounce of nuvifone branding here, despite the fact that the device is a dead ringer for the nuvifone A50 announced back at MWC , which leads us to believe that AT&T might hold the exclusive American rights to market the name with its own G60
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: asus, att, exclusive, garminfone, gold-connectors, mobile, mwc, nüvi, Ringer