This oddball little phone is the end-game of Garmin’s slow move into mobile phone world – the Nuvifone A50, running on Android. Specs-wise, the A50 features a decent-size 3.5″ touchscreen, a 3megapixel camera and will arrive with 4GB of internal storage – and a microSD card for music and all that other nonsense of yours.
Plus the A50 obviously ships with Garmin’s navigation software, which seems more than a little bit awkward when Google’s own Maps Navigation tool is part of the modern Android spec.
And that’s what it looks like. We’re trying to get a higher resolution one out of Garmin at the moment. It has a design that you will either love or hate, that’s for sure. The Nuvifone A50 will arrive in Europe during the “first half” of 2010, according to Garmin-ASUS.
Read the full official press release here, if you want more details than we can be bothered typing up.
HIGH-RESOLUTION UPDATE:
Here’s the A50 at a lovely resolution of 2400 x 2400 so you can get a better idea of how that curiously sleek and featureless case looks. And that is one heavily-skinned build of Android.
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