Location-based gadgets and GPS devices are just taking off in India, and leading GPS brand Garmin doesn’t want to be left behind. In a partnership with Asus, the two companies have launched the Garmin-Asus M20 and G60 phones in India.
Most of the features the phones share are common, except for the screen and operating system. Hence, they are identically priced at Rs. 30,000 and $600. incorporate top-of-the-line phone capabilities with premium features such as 3.5G data connectivity, SMS text messaging, email, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and more.
The G60 sports a 3.55-inch anti-glare resistive touchscreen (65K colours, 272x480 pixels) and runs on a custom Linux operating system. It also comes with its own HTML browser based on Webkit platform, push email and gives four hours of talk-time on a single charge of its battery.
The M20, meanwhile, comes with a 2.8-inch resistive touchscreen (65K colours, 480x640 pixels) and runs on Windows Mobile 6.1. It is pre-loaded with the Opera mobile browser, offers push email and its battery lasts for almost three hours of continuous talk-time.
Both the devices are equipped with a 3.15-megapixel camera with auto-focus and geo-tagging, and feature the Panoramio software, wherein you can view geo-tagged pictures in your area to get navigational directions to their location.
Asus-Garmin have tied up with Navteq to provide the navigable maps of India. Research indicates that when Indians ask for directions, the most commonly requested destinations are city centres and the most commonly provided cues include bank, hospitals, movie theatres and places of worship. The Navteq map of India includes a significant collection of these commonly referred to ‘Points of Interest’.
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