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The T-Mobile Garminfone Android Phone (T-Mobile) has been reduced from $549.99 to $319.99 over at Amazon.com. 'The first Android-powered smartphone fully-integrated with Garmin's premium GPS software, the 3G-enabled Garminfone smartphone for T-Mobile gives you the same navigation experience found on Garmin's standalone GPS devices--including voice-guided and on-screen directions, real-time traffic, weather, and gas prices. The mobile Web browser includes enhanced functions, including pinch and zoom capability and embedded location awareness that links information found on the Web to navigation and mapping functions--enabling you to navigate directly to a location from a Web page.'

Trusted Reviews have published a review of the Garmin-Asus nuvifone M10. 'The M10 is based on Windows Mobile 6.5.3, and looks at first glance like a relatively standard touchscreen smartphone. It's neither tubby nor super-slim, and has a 5-megapixel camera on the back but no flash. However, the sat-nav abilities become evident right from the home screen. Beneath the grid of nine app icons, two of the three static icons provide access to sat-nav functions. Strangely, the other one is the Call button, which takes you to the regular phone features, but there's already a permanent button for this beneath the touchscreen, so it seems rather superfluous.'

CNET have published a review of the Garminfone (T-Mobile) GPS handset. 'Looks don't count for everything, but they do count for something and the Garmin Nuvifone G60 didn't make a very good impression with its blocky, drab design. Fortunately, that isn't the case with the Garminfone, which sports a sleeker, sexier frame. At 4.57 inches tall by 2.46 inches wide by 0.49 inch thick and 4.9 ounces, it's much more manageable as a cell phone but still big enough to work as a navigator. The device also has a solid construction and a soft-touch finish on back to give it a nonslippery texture when held in the hand.'

Dev Hardware have published their review of the Garmin Nuvifone G60 GPS Smartphone. 'The Nuvifone has built-in Wi-Fi, which obviously isn't a design element, but the buttons used to navigate this feature are a little crude. It is possible to easily check out wireless Internet hot spots and browse the web or sign into your e-mail account, but the + and - buttons designed to enable users to zoom in and out of web pages don't offer much control. There's actually no telling where on the page you'll zoom into, which means you then have to re-center the page by flicking and scrolling ... two features we've already mentioned are less than successful.'

CNET have published their review of the Garmin Nuvifone G60 (AT&T) GPS-enabled smartphone. 'The Garmin Nuvifone G60 has a plain but clean design. Cloaked in a black soft-touch finish, the G60 measures 4.4 inches tall by 2.3 inches wide by 0.5 inch thick and weighs 4.8 ounces, so it's a bit bulky and not the most pocket-friendly device. Of course, it has to be a certain size to make it a viable navigation option in the car, but we would have preferred something slightly slimmer. On the positive side, the phone has a very solid construction and looks like it could survive a tumble, not that we recommend that you be rough with the device.'

PC Magazine have published a review of the Garmin nuvifone G60 (AT&T) GPS mobile. 'The rubberized G60 looks pedestrian. It measures 4.4 by 2.3 by 0.6 inches (HWD) and weighs 4.8 ounces. It's fashioned in charcoal-colored rubber with chrome plastic bands on the sides and back panel. One oddity is the side-mounted docking port, which plugs into the included GPS mount for your dashboard. However, there's no DC power adapter in the box for charging the G60 while driving. The 2.5mm headphone jack works with many cell-phone headsets, but not music headphones. The 3.6-inch, 272-by-480-pixel resistive plastic touch screen worked OK for thumb taps, but felt old school compared with today's glass LCDs and AMOLED panels.'