<![CDATA[Jalopnik: nuviphone]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: nuviphone]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/nuviphone http://jalopnik.com/tag/nuviphone <![CDATA[ Garmin Stereotypes The Hell Out Of Women ]]> Hey Garmin, everyone knows all women like to do is shop, eat at bistros, spend their man's money and forget where they parked, but you don't have to make it so obvious with this commercial for the Nuviphone. Check out the first part of the ad above, where a woman's inability to do anything productive with her life is pointed out. Oh, and Suzie, since you are obviously a sugar mama gold digger, get that man of yours to buy you a better vehicle—that sheet of drywall with a steering wheel isn't cutting it.

Click through to see the rest of this horrible ad, which features a very hot, and highly anticipated, GPS-enabled cellphone. [Geeksugar]

]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:15:00 EST Travis Hudson http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=355656&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ Garmin Nuviphone: What Does It Mean For The GPS Biz? ]]> Just when I thought Garmin was too busy releasing a relentless number of GPS navigation systems, they come out of nowhere with the Nuviphone, a full-blown cellphone based around a GPS core that's set for a third quarter release this year. No word on the carrier or price. With a variety of carriers and manufacturers marketing their own gimpy solutions to GPS on cellphones, what does this phone mean for the industry? Quite a bit, actually.

Garmin is a big name brand in the GPS navigation industry. Arguably, they're the top dog. And when they make a big change, like this one, everyone will take note.

The Nuviphone is another iPhone competitor, but the difference here is that the Nuviphone features full blown GPS and not the triangulation and location-based mumbo-jumbo that the iPhone and many other cellphone manufacturers put out there.

The Nuviphone still has a long way to go, but a release of this magnitude—i.e., a cellphone that one can truly dock in a car and be used for navigation—will ripple throughout the industry and hopefully force other manufacturers to take note and include TRUE GPS (worthy of use in cars for navigation) into cellphones.

The phone itself is the whole enchilada, as far as features go. And in addition to the GPS navigation, the phone includes Google local search and Garmin online services (traffic, weather, fuel prices, etc) that links up with the core navigation system. [Garmin via Giz]

]]> Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:45:00 EST Travis Hudson http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=351179&view=rss&microfeed=true