When is the Nuvifone Coming?

We’ve been hearing since last year that the Garmin Nuvifone G60 is coming, but to date will still haven’t seen the phone. The last we heard from Garmin was that the phone would be available the first half of this year. With the first half of the year over in a few weeks it’s more than likely the phone Nuvifone won’t be here.

It turns out that Garmin is finding it’s not so easy to make a smartphone and one based on the Linux platform. President and COO Cliff Pemble spoke about the difficulties at a conference call with analysts, noting “Smartphones are complicated and bringing one to market that’s built totally from the ground up on a custom Linux platform is not an easy task.” The word on the street is that the new delivery date may be somewhere around Q3 of this year. We’ll see if that’s the case or not. Stay tuned!

source: gadgetcom