Word on the street is that Garmin's upcoming Nuvifone will actually be manufactured by ASUS. According to "industry sources" the two companies have been working on the device for the past two years. The sources further claim that the Nuvifone will be the first in a series handsets, with plans to roll out new models through 2010. Reporting that the interface was snappy, the screen is nice and big, and the UI appears to be very GPS-centric. They tried the QWERTY keypad which is "spacious enough" and uses an auto-complete dictionary. The main interface presents a row of icons for calling, searching, and mapping, and finger swipes stream them across the screen. Included apps, at least in this model, were SMS, Google Search, email, and media player.
