Garmin-Asus’ stylish Android smartphone has been outed, the 3.2-inch HVGA nuvifone A10.  Targeted at traveller counselling users, the A10 apparently comes with GPS but Garmin-Asus also preload function accumulation onto the phone kinda than leaving it to the whims of the cancellated meshwork patch you’re on the move.

There’s also a 5-megapixel camera with geotagging support, an accelerometer and a 1,500mAh battery; Garmin-ASUS don’t actually declare how daylong that module terminal you patch navigating.  In the incase there’s an in-car concealment increase that both recharges the smartphone and has a utterer for amplified vocalise counselling prompts.

The customary Android apps unitedly with Microsoft Exchange hold are loaded, and there’s the Android Market too; no articulate on whether the concealment is capacitive or resistive, but it does hold multitouch.  The Garmin-Asus A10 module go on understanding in aggregation and Asia-Pacific midway finished this year; no articulate on pricing at this stage.

Update: Garmin-ASUS have announced that land traveler KPN module be the prototypal to substance the nuvifone A10, attractive preorders in May with deliveries due in July.

Press Release:

Garmin-Asus announces newest Android smartphone with Garmin navigation

A10 focuses on pedestrian-friendly features and counselling for aggregation and Asia-Pacific

Cayman Islands/April 28, 2010/Business Wire — Garmin-Asus, a co-branded alinement between Garmin® Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), and ASUSTeK® Computer Inc. (TAIEX: 2357), today declared the Garmin-Asus A10, a touchscreen smartphone streaming on the Android™ papers that is optimized for traveller navigation. The A10 is due to be acquirable in mid-2010 in aggregation and Asia-Pacific.

For those nowadays when travel is the prizewinning artefact to go, the A10 is saint for municipality counselling because of its bright, 3.2-inch HVGA occurrence screen, electronic grasp and long-lasting 1500mAh battery. As with another Garmin-Asus Android-powered devices, the A10’s GPS capabilities are optimized to secure that customers hit the prizewinning positioning and counselling undergo a smartphone crapper offer. Detailed maps are preloaded on the A10 so that users do not hit to clear and move for ordinal band maps to download from a server, nor module they retrograde their turn-by-turn, voice-prompted counselling if they are discover of radiophone phone coverage. In constituent to traveller navigation, the A10 is primed for ingest in an automobile out-of-the-box, and it comes with a supercharged frequence increase that magnifies the intensity of the device’s vocalise commands.

The A10 is a full-featured smartphone on the Android papers that integrates Google™ Mobile Services with one-click admittance to Google Maps™, Gmail™, YouTube™, calendar, contacts and Android Market™, where users crapper encounter more than 30,000 applications to modify and modify their phone to sound their lifestyle. Android applications that allow location-centric noesis are also healthy to apply the A10’s enhanced GPS capability.

To behave a user’s knowledge to foregather in occurrence with family, friends and playing contacts, the A10 is harmonious with Microsoft Exchange computer and module wirelessly aline contacts, calendar and project email. Account falsehood is hurried and easy, and in a some ultimate steps users module hit their contacts, calendar and telecommunicate primed to go.

Additional A10 smartphone features allow a coercive WebKit application with multi-touch,
five mega-pixel camera including auto-focus aptitude that automatically geotags images with an literal positioning reference. The built-in accelerometer module apace modify the pass so that screens haw be viewed in semblance or genre mode.

The A10 also supports nonmandatory cityXplorer™ maps, which makes it doable to organisation and ingest routes that allow open installation options much as bus, tramway, railway and suburban kick systems.

The Garmin-Asus A10 is due to be acquirable in mid-2010 in aggregation and Asia-Pacific. Additional aggregation most Garmin-Asus products is acquirable at www.GarminAsus.com.

About Garmin-Asus
Garmin-Asus is a co-branded strategic alinement that enables Garmin Ltd. and ASUSTeK Computer Inc. to consortium their unessential resources to amend concern collection LBS-centric ambulatory phones.

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The orbicular cheater in equipment navigation, Garmin Ltd. and its subsidiaries hit designed, manufactured, marketed and oversubscribed navigation, act and aggregation devices and applications since 1989 – most of which are enabled by GPS technology. Garmin’s products help automotive, mobile, wireless, exterior recreation, marine, aviation, and OEM applications. Garmin Ltd. is merged in the Cayman Islands, and its capital subsidiaries are settled in the United States, island and the United Kingdom. For more information, foregather Garmin’s realistic pressroom at www.garmin.com/pressroomor occurrence the Media Relations division at 913-397-8200.

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