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» Has iPhone met its match with nuvifone? (updated 10x) The Apple Core ZDNet.com:

: "Garmin made a surprise announcement last night of a new iPhone competitor. nuvifone (rhymes with “MovieFone”… coincidence?) has an impressive feature set, including:

• Quad-band GSM mobile phone
• 3G HSDPA
• 3.5-inch touchscreen interface
• HTML Web browser
• WiFi
• Multi-network instant messaging
• MMS media messaging
• Still & video camera
  Automatically geotags photo with the latitude and longitude reference of where the image was taken
• MP3 and MPEG4/AAC player
• Garmin Online service with constantly-updating information:
  Real-time traffic
  Fuel prices
  Stock prices
  Sport scores
  News reports
  Local events
  Weather forecasts
• Google applications
  Gmail
  Google local search
  Proximity, location based search (coffee shops near me)
  Access to millions of geo-located landmark and sightseeing photographs available through Google’s Panoramio picture sharing site
• Best-in-breed GPS capabilities
  Preloaded maps of North America, Eastern and Western Europe, or both
  Turn-by-turn, voice-prompted directions
  Speaks the names of the streets
  “Where am I?” feature displays your latitude and longitude coordinates, the nearest address and intersection, and the closest hospitals, police stations and gas stations.
  Find your car in an unfamiliar spot or crowded parking lot by automatically marking the position in which it was last removed from the vehicle mount."