Garmin-Asus nuvifone M20 Smartphone Features Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, Web Browser, and GPS Navigation

The co-branded Garmin-Asus nuvifone M20 smartphone has been unveiled, and the slick colorful device is described as "an all-in-one phone, mobile web-browser and premium navigation system with a Windows Mobile operating system." This follows the recently announced nüvifone G60 Mobile Phone which will join the new nuvifone M20 at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain next week. 

The Garmin-Asus nuvifone M20 is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional with enterprise email, and features dual-band 3.5G/tri-band GSM and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g connectivity, a 2.8” TFT touch lens VGA (640x480) display, 3 MegaPixel camera with GeoTagging, built-in microphone and speakers, 4Gb/8Gb of memory, push email, document viewing, Bluetooth, and Garmin sat nav. with preloaded maps and points of interest. A full QWERTY soft keyboard is on board for sending  and receiving SMS, MMS and emails, and users can also take advantage of the phone's location based services.

The nüvifone M20 takes GPS navigation one step further via Connected Services, a suite of online applications and data from Garmin-Asus that adds location intelligence to navigation, phone and browser functions. The expandable list of applications includes content like real-time traffic information, White Pages, weather, flight status, local events, and movie times.

The nüvifone product line also includes Ciao!™, a ground-breaking LBS application that helps users stay up to date on their friends’ whereabouts and status by linking numerous location-centric social networks. Through Ciao!, nüvifone users will see their friends’ location on a map and then be able to navigate to that location with ease. Nüvifone users can also choose to have the nüvifone automatically update their social network location information.

Garmin-Asus will announce nüvifone M20’s pricing and availability info in the first half of 2009. www.GarminAsus.com.