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The Garmin n vifone: Another Attempt at Designing the Perfect Converged Device

Posted on February 04, 2008

While many PND vendors such as TomTom, Magellan, Mio, Dash and Mobile Devices are focusing on connected Personal Navigation Devices, Garmin has chosen the different route of developing a handset with integrated navigation. It may not be the easiest route. Undoubtedly, the iPhone has served as a successful and tempting example of how to adapt the handset form factor to accommodate data applications in a user friendly way. While the iPhone has clearly made the case for mobile web browsing - for the first time it is less clear how successful a navigation-centric handset will be. With the laun...

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