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Garmin Nuviphone G60 Deserves More Hype

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I am feeling overwhelmed this morning with all the news coming out of The Mobile World Congress. There is just so much to blog about, how do I choose? This video of Garmin’s new G60 GPS Smartphone helped me decide. This thing has one of the coolest interfaces I have ever seen on a mobile phone. I think it will do really well.

Watch the video and tell me what you think.

-Hillel

 


Garmin G60 Hands On from Jesus Diaz on Vimeo.

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Hillel Fuld is a global speaker, entrepreneur, journalist, vlogger, and leading startup advisor. He brings over a decade of marketing experience with leading Israeli and Silicon Valley startups, and currently collaborates with many global brands in an official marketing capacity including Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Huawei, and others.      Hillel covers the dynamic local tech scene for many leading publications including Entrepreneur magazine, Inc, TechCrunch, Mashable, The Next Web, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Venturebeat, and others. Additionally, Hillel mentors startups across Israel in different accelerators including The Google Launchpad, the Microsoft Ventures accelerator, Techstars, The Junction, and more.    Hillel has been named Israel’s top marketer, 7th top tech blogger worldwide, has been featured on CNBC, Inc, and was dubbed by Forbes as “The Man Transforming Startup Nation into Scale-up Nation”.       Hillel has hundreds of thousands of followers across the social web and can be found on Twitter at @Hilzfuld. You can learn more about him on his website: www.hilzfuld.com

 

5 thoughts on “Garmin Nuviphone G60 Deserves More Hype”

  1. Not bad, but I have to agree with the GDGT guys on this one-this is not a good move for Garmin. They should be focusing on getting their software on to mobile platforms like iPhone and Android, not making their own hardware. The sad truth is that no one will buy this phone. To really take market share, especially in this economy, you have to make something that’s an order of magnitude better than the entrenched competition. This is actually not quite as compelling as the 8 month old iPhone 3G. In fact, while the Palm Pre makes me happy (the prospect of someone biting at Apple’s heels ultimately means better Apple products), it’s not an order of magnitude better than the iPhone, either. It simply builds a little on some of the concepts that iPhone introduced two years ago. It is remarkable how influential the iPhone has been in the mobile marketplace. As Hillel commented in an earlier post, it seems like the mobile world is now divided into decent iPhone knockoffs and poor iPhone knockoffs.

  3. Looks like a good UI… but its basically a GPS (as Garmin know well) with a phone added. Why Garmin would want to enter a market like mobile phones is unclear…. but its basically another attempt at improving an Iphone. Main issue here is that they are following and not initiating like Apple…. you can be a follower and still make money, but you will always be benchmarked to that leading group of innovators.

  4. JB, one one hand you are right, but what is a little funny about the market is that yes, Apple was the first, but that does not mean very touch screen after them is a copy. This one for example, offers so many things the iPhone does not, I find it hard to call it a copy.

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