Garmin nuvifone G60 review - part 2 of 2

Part 2 of my look at the Garmin-ASUS nuvifone G60, a top end GPS navigation phone that is at home in your pocket as it is on your car's dash. This section covers the mapping and navigation features. http://www.mobileburn.com/review.jsp?Id=7995

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[Mouthmusician]

I see that you can't put music on (why would you since it's made for people in cars), no games for when you are waiting on somebody. what else it's missing.

[mobileburn]

What are you talking about? It has a decent music player and supports Bluetooth stereo. There could be games, but none are pre-installed at least.

[romer6]

We don´t have Dairy Queen here so I had to google it to know what it is. And yes, he really seems to like it.

[mobileburn]

And yeah, I do really like Dairy Queen...

[MsTeleological]

he really likes his Dairy Queen

[mobileburn]

I tend to always pick the same things when reviewing, it helps me keep track of what I've covered.

[ldimillo19]

@Mouthmusician check the first two minutes of the video. "Music Player"

[paintdataint]

@mobileburn could i put movies on this?

[dmcgee1]

If you did not have a data plan, what functions of the gps would be rendered useless? are most of the points of interest etc stored on the phone or accessed through a data plan?

[cloudflyer77]

I have a new nuvi g60, my contract was up at at&t, so got for 1 penny. good phone for the money, but garmin needs to go back to the drawing board, to hard to navigate, there is no control of the screen backlit, have to use power button too much to operate the screen, if using in a car, bluetooth headset is mandatory,

[reedrich4rds]

can it play divx? can it play flash videos (ie youtube)?

[scientificcompl]

track any phone learn how HOWTOTRACKMYWIFE-dot-com

[brownvillarat]

yes it does.

[1976ariel]

love the fone. can you install opera mini or mobile to this?

[TheMrSlick]

Does the Nuvifone support TTS (text to speech)? For example, will it read out the street names, or just say, "turn right ahead"? Thanks by the way, and very good and thorough review.