T Mobile Garminfone

t mobile garminfone review

Release Date:  Q2 2010
Expert Rating:

• Immaculate GPS support
• 3G

• No video recording
• No FM radio

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T-Mobile has made an announcement of its latest handset, which is based on Google Android™ and the name of the phone is Garminfone. As per the speculations in the market, it was expected that the leading carrier is going to bring in MyTouch Garminfone Slide, but instead of that, they have made an announcement of the Garminfone. The first glimpse of the phone was displayed on the major event of the year – Mobile World Congress 2010, and it was not sure whether the handset will be made available beyond the North American market. However, T-Mobile has decided to bring in this super cool product to the customers all over the world, and it is expected to release within the second quarter of 2010. The device is touted as the modified version of the Garmin Asus Nuvifone A50 and it will be packed with the GPS support as well.

The market of the mobile phones is already hot with the announcement of excellent devices by the big makers like Nokia C6, Apple iPhone-4g-hd, and many more. There will not be that much of a gap between the release of these high end smart phones. Only time will tell how T-Mobile Garminfone will perform under the fierce competition provided by the big wigs within the industry.

T-Mobile Garminfone – the key highlights

With Garmin being the driving force, it is obvious that navigation factor will be interesting in this device. The mobile phone is expected to bring the best of navigation attributes, for which the company is famous for. It is even touted that the most sophisticated features of the top-notch devices of Garmin will be included in the device, which will be a sort of merger between high-end navigation and the mobile telephony. Some of the brilliant GPS features of the phone will be the database of some six million points of interest, text – to- speech directions, and voice –guided navigation along with a junction view and lane direction. The users of the mobile phone can also record voice directions and share them by the help of a new application called Garmin Voice Studio. This is not all, the GPS support of the mobile phone will also allow its users to trace the nearest eateries, traffic conditions, movie timings, gas prices, and weather report.

T-Mobile Garminfone Review – the network support

After discussing the details about the basic feature of the Garminfone, which is the navigation factor, let’s take a look at the other features of the handset. How strong are the network and the connectivity options of the device? This T-Mobile handset is supportive of both the second generation and the third generation networks. Those who prefer to use the 2G network, they will get the support of the quad band GSM 850/ 900/ 1800/ 1900; while those who will go with 3G, they will get the support of the dual band HSDPA 1700/ 2100.

The connectivity features of the handset are also very interesting. The users can enjoy internet browsing on the phone with Class 10 GPRS and EDGE connectivity. The browsing speed with GPRS is 32 to 48 kbps; while that of EDGE is 236.8 kbps. This is not all, Wi-Fi® 802.11b/Garminfone is available as one of the key connectivity features of the handset, apart from the best one, which is 3G HSDPA with3.6 mbps speed. The users of the mobile phone can exchange data to/from other compatible handsets by using the wire based connectivity of USB v2.0 and wireless connectivity of Bluetooth® v2.0 with A2DP.

T-Mobile Garminfone - display feature

Look plays a vital role in influencing a person to buy a phone. Numerous mobile phones release almost every month and it becomes quite touch for a buyer to decide on a particular handset. It also increases the competition and hence, it becomes very essential that the mobile phones are able to catch the first impression of the prospective buyers. Therefore, look plays such a crucial part as many people decide to proceed with the buying process after getting attracted to the look of the device. Garminfone is not an exception and it is also designed in an attractive manner to catch the eye balls of the buyers. The model of the handset is super sleek and it is black in colour. The phone measures 116 x 62.2 x 12 mm and it weighs 136 grams. The biggest highlight in terms of appearance of the phone is its display. The display of Garminfone is 3.5 inches and it is TFT capacitive. The resolution provided by the display is 320 x 480 pixels and it features 256,000 colours. Some of the key highlights of the display include multi touch input and accelerometer sensor for UI auto rotate.

T-Mobile Garminfone Review – memory

Decent memory back up is a must in the mobile phones of present time, especially if the device is a smart phone. If the memory support is not appropriate, then the handset cannot make use of the features and application to the best of capacity. Garminfone is inclusive of a good memory back up. The device features an internal memory of 4GB, which is enough to store huge data of phone book entries, call data and other applications. However, if that much of storage capacity is not enough, then one can enhance the memory up to 32 GB by using the microSD™ card slot.

T-Mobile Garminfone – the camera

Camera is the vital highlight of any mobile phone and it is applicable to the Garminfone as well. The device brings in a 3.15 mega pixel camera with auto focus and geo tagging support and 2048 x 1536 resolution. Video recording is not accessible with this mobile phone camera and there is no secondary camera as well. Apart from the camera, the users can also enjoy music player, video playback options, and games. There is no FM radio.