Almost 18 months after being first announced and being superseded by two generations of the iPhone, AT&T has officially announced the forthcoming launch of the Garmin nuvifone G60 navigation-oriented smart device manufactured by Garmin-Asus for October 4th.
The G60 will feature a Linux-based operating system with a 3.5 inch WVGA widescreen resistive touch display, quadband GSM/EDGE and triband HSDPA access, LBS services with preloaded maps for the US, A-GPS support, GPS transceiver, Bluetooth with stereo audio support, speakerphone, Wi-Fi radio, 3.0 megapixel camera with autofocus and video recorder, microSDHC expansion slot, and HTML web browser.
AT&T will also bundle a 30 day free trial of its new companion Nüvifone Premium Connected Services which includes traffic updates, white pages, weather, movie, local events and fuel price content, available for $5.99 per month after the trial.
As confirmed yesterday, pricing is set at $549.99 Retail/No Commitment, $374.99 on a 1 year agreement and $299.99 after a new 2 year agreement and $100 mail-in rebate.
“AT&T will also bundle a 30 day free trial of its new companion Nüvifone Premium Connected Services which includes traffic updates, white pages, weather, movie, local events and fuel price content, available for $5.99 per month after the trial.”
Wow, it looks like AT&T is including Bing and charging $5.99 per month for it. And people wonder why I think Windows Mobile is the best smartphone OS…
It’s a different service unrelated to Bing that relies on Garmin’s paid service available on high-end nuvi units, ironically powered by AT&T.
I know it’s a different service. I was just sarcastically pointing out that it doesn’t appear to offer anything that Bing doesn’t already offer for free.