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The Garmin-Asus nüvifone joint venture has taken on another family member today: the A50, rocking Android. It has 3G, a 3.5” capacitive touchscreen, GPS, and supports Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Exchange sync. The running theme with nüvifone has been navigation and location-based services, and includes stuff like car mount-optimized user interface, and an additional side-mounted GPS [...]
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Garmin-Asus Announces nüvifone A50 with Android
February 11th, 2010 
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Tags: 3G, Android, Farmin_Asus, GPS, Microsoft, Nuvifone, Windows Moile 
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January 22nd, 2010 admin
The existing Windows Mobile nüvifone has already enjoyed a 6.5 update, but this M10 is apparently running the new 6.5.3, which we caught a look at during CES. Preorders have started for the M10, which will offer a 3.5” 800 x 480 display, 600 MHz processor, and cruise on 900/2100 HSPA and 900/1800/1900 EDGE bands. [...]
Rumor: Garmin-ASUS nuvifone G60 to run $300?
September 27th, 2009 admin While several shipping dates have come and gone, we’re still hopeful of seeing Garmin’s nuvifone in the flesh and on the street at some point in the future . …
ASUS planning dual screen Eee Reader: world’s cheapest e-book reader
September 7th, 2009 admin Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? You betcha. After catching an up close and personal glimpse at ASUS’ dual panel touchscreen concept at CeBIT this past March, we soon forgot ASUS even had such a beast in the R&D lab. Just over a week ago, however, all those fond memories came [...]
Garmin-Asus Launches First Windows Mobile Smartphone
August 19th, 2009 admin Garmin-Asus, the mobile phone joint venture between GPS device maker Garmin and electronics vendor Asustek Computer, launched its first smartphone with the Windows Mobile operating system on Wednesday in Taiwan. The Nuvifone M20, which has a 2.8-inch touchscreen and runs Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, will be sold in by Taiwan’s largest [...]
Asus Axes First USB 3.0 Motherboard
July 30th, 2009 admin Looks like we’ll be waiting a little longer for USB 3.0 after all. The Inquirer is reporting that Asus plans to ditch the snazzy USB 3.0-equipped P6X68 mobo that I wrote about last week. The highly anticipated board was to be the worlds first with SuperSpeed USB, which at 5000Mbps is about [...]
ASUS’s RT-N16 wireless router
June 30th, 2009 admin ASUS has just about all the other bases covered with its new RT-N16 model. Apparently “engineered for the future” (too bad, present), this one naturally packs full 802.11n capabilities, along with a “powerful CPU” and 128MB of memory to help it eek out every last bit of bandwidth, and both four [...]
ASUS outs USB 2.0 Blu-ray drive
June 29th, 2009 admin ASUS has taken a fairly basic USB Blu-ray drive and given it a high-gloss makeover. The SBC-04B1S-U isn’t gonna wow you with 4.8x maximum Blu-ray disc reading, 8x DVD burning, a USB 2.0 connection, and Windows compatibility. The bright blue ‘X’ on the unit flashes and has a dedicated app to [...]
ASUS and Disney presents Netpal netbook for kids
June 17th, 2009 admin ASUS’s new Disney-branded Netpal netbook for kids, which will be available in your choice of “Princess Pink” or “Magic Blue” colors (the latter replete with tiny Mickey Mouse icons). In addition to that eye-catching exterior, each netbook also packs a custom, kid-friendly Disney interface, along with a range of built-in parental [...]
DIY WiFi radio built with ASUS WL-520gU router
June 6th, 2009 admin
Thanks to Jeff Keyzer over at mightyOhm, you can now get to work on your very own DIY WiFi radio. In one of the most elaborate how-to guides we’ve ever had the pleasure of gawking at, Jeff has detailed exactly how to turn an ASUS WL-520gU router, a few spare pieces of [...]
