The story begin from last year, where Garmin show off the Nuvifone prototype, then said it will out in early 2009, it gets FCC code, and in the early of this year its user interface leaked, now Garmin joined Asus officially introduced G60, the first model of Nuvifone series. Garmin-Asus Nuvifone G60 comes with three functions are connect, communicate, navigate. It support with Linux operation system on its display. There’s still no confirmation about the detail specifications.

Just to make you know that Garmin-Asus Nuvifone G60 will support Quad-band voice as well as high-speed WiFi connection with WPA encryption and full HTML browser for the connect ability. Then for the communicate function, it offer Geo-tagged SMS, email, and photo sharing along with integrated Ciao! Location-based Social Networking platform and large screen with portrait/landscape mode with virtual QWERTY keyboard on its screen.

And last but not least, its navigation provide with Garmin navigation with voice prompted, turn-by-turn direction. Beside that, its GPS ability support “Where am I?” feature to show the current locations and nearest POIs. It offer One-step navigation from contacts, email and local search result. It include Pedestrian mode and complete with car mount for car-GPS used. Garmin-Asus Nuvifone G60 will be announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this February.