Garmin nüvifone G60 GPS Phone (AT&T)

by Garmin

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4 x 2 x 0.7 inches ; 6.1 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002QUZNSQ
• Item model number: G60
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The nüvifone G60 is a great new idea--a smartphonethat fully integrates a GPS navigator with voice, data and mobile Internet. Because the GPS is not a separate application, the G60 gives you the ability to navigate while you talk on the phone or use other features. Check your email and enjoy full HTML web browsing over Wi-Fi or your data network, snap photos with the built-in 3 megapixel autofocus camera, view Microsoft Office documents, and plenty more. All on a sleek and light device with a 3.5-inch anti-glare touchscreen. With nüvifone, you can always know where you are and where you're going.

The world's best-selling GPS navigator with voice, data and mobile web. Click to enlarge.
		Large Touch Screen Display
		Garmin GPS Navigation with Preloaded Maps
		HTML Web Browsing
		3.2 MP Autofocus Camera
		Email and Text Messages
		Bluetooth Capability

The Navigation Phone.

Industry-Leading Navigation From Garmin
Navigation is the feature that really sets this phone apart, just as you'd expect from Garmin. Each nüvifone G60 comes standard with voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions with spoken street names, onboard maps and millions of points of interest (POIs).

A car mount is included for standard automobile use, but don't forget this is an ultra-portable smart phone. That means you get one-step navigation from contacts, email and local search results. You also get handy features like Garmin Locate, which helps you remember where you parked by automatically marking your position when you remove it from the car. The "Where am I?" safety feature displays your current address and nearest police, hospital and fuel services in one click. And use the pedestrian mode for in-hand navigation at street level.

Industry-leading Garmin navigation experience, with voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions that speaks street names. Click to enlarge.

Desktop web experience with full HTML browser. Click to enlarge.

Connected Services deliver a wealth of information when you're on the move.

Included Connected Services
Grab information you need when you need it over AT&T's trusty 3G network. Use the Yellow Pages to find and navigate to businesses in your area--click for voice-prompted directions if you don't want to stare down at the screen. Quickly check flight departure/arrival times or gate info when traveling. Convert currencies, measurements or temperatures on the go. Use the location-based Ciao! social networking platform to share your location with friends.

Premium Connected Services
With a nominal subscription fee, Premium Connected Services give you even more. Get traffic alerts for delays and construction. Search businesses in the white pages or check local movie times--and navigate there once you find what you're looking for. Check your current and five-day weather forecast. Check out upcoming concerts, theater, and other entertainment options. Even find the best fuel prices near your current location with one click.

Versatile Connectivity
When you're near a Wi-Fi connection (b or g), enjoy rapid-fire desktop-style web browsing in a full HTML browser. You can also check your POP3 and IMAP email accounts, with built-in support for common free clients like Hotmail and Gmail. Of course Wi-Fi isn't necessary--the G60 can also use AT&T's EDGE and 3G networks so you're always in touch. And with the onboard GPS, where you are becomes an active part of the process with geo-tagged SMS, e-mail and photo sharing.

The G60 also supports plenty of Bluetooth profiles (hands-free, headset, advanced stereo audio distribution, remote audio control). Communicate and navigate hands-free, stream your favorite tunes, and more.

smartphoneTools
Aside from its connected services and GPS ability, the G60 offers plenty of smartphonemust-haves. Essential tools like a calendar and calculator help you get through the day. A check list feature and notes app help you get things done. A world clock with stopwatch and alarm clock helps you keep track of time, and a 5,000-contact address book helps you keep track of people.

For those who can never quite escape work, the G60 allows viewing of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, along with PDF documents. You can also enjoy your favorite JPG images.

Entertainment and Personalization
No device is complete these days without an MP3 player, and the G60 is no exception. Play back your favorite MP3 tunes or stream them using the integrated Bluetooth. Expand your memory with the on-board microSD slot, just in case those maps are eating up all your memory.

The 3 megapixel camera is also a fun and handy tool. Enjoy auto-focus and image stabilization for better pictures, geo-tag your photos so you can share location along with image, and enjoy your pictures on the brilliant touchscreen with landscape and portrait viewing.

As with most phones, you can add your favorite ringtones to the G60. You can also use Answer Tones to have your friends hear your favorite song or funny phrase when they call you.

Finally, choose graphics to personalize your device, including wallpapers, backgrounds, custom menus, icons and plenty more.

nüvifone G60 Specifications

• Frequencies: GSM/GPRS/Edge 850/900/1800/1900; 3G UMTS/HSDPA 850/1900/2100
• Dimensions: 4.4 x 2.3 x 0.57 in.
• Display resolution: 272 x 480 WQVGA
• Weight: 4.8 oz. (battery included)
• Contacts: 5,000 max.
• Camera/photos: 3 MP camera with auto-focus and geotagging
• Memory: 4 GB on-board storage
• Expandable memory: microSD card, HC capable, expandable up to 16 GB
• Music player: MP3 playback
• Headphone jack: 2.5 mm
• Battery: 1200 mAh removable/rechargeable lithium cell
• Standby time: Up to 250 hours
• Talk time: Up to 4 hours

What's in the Box
nüvifone G60, Vehicle suction mount with cradle, Lithium-ion battery, Wall charger, USB cable

Product Description

Garmin nuvifone G60 AT&T GSM Quad-Band Phone with GPS & Wi-Fi: Want a device that is as good a GPS as it is a phone? Then the Garmin nuvifone G60 is right up your alley. Voice-guided GPS turn-by-turn driving directions and local business search are just a few highlights of the full-featured GPS navigation. Wi-Fi support, an impressive 3.2MP camera, and functional touch screen make this phone a well-rounded device. This brand new Garmin nuvifone G60 is ready to use on the AT&T network. Order from PhoneSale.com today and have it shipped for free!Large 3.55'' touch screenMicroSD card slot for up to 16GB of expandable memoryGPS-enabled3.15MP camera with autofocusLinux OSIntegrated web browser2.5mm audio jackWi-Fi capableSend SMS, MMs, e-mail, and instant messages4GB of internal storageAT&T

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

85 of 89 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not_very smart phone and good GPS,..nothing else, December 5, 2009

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The Fiddler (New Orleans) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Garmin nüvifone G60 GPS Phone (AT&T) (Wireless Phone)

After owning the Nuvifone for a week and a half and spending 4 plus hours a day trying to get things working correctly, I am very disappointed. The two other reviews appear to be written by Garmin employees. (one was deleted)
OK, let's get down to details.

The first thing you will need to buy is a DC adapter for your car or the GPS turns off in 1 minute. The "everything you need in the box" is just a powerless windshield mount. AA&T doesn't carry ANY Nuvi accessories so be prepared to order it from Garmin are find an adapter that works. It is a standard D/C charger plug to a mini USB with a 90 degree bend. Once that is done the GPS part work fine in 3D mode, but has some bugs in 2D mode (the way I always use any GPS). The pink line (your path) disappears , changes color or just doesn't show. This happens ALL the time. The voice instructions work fine and the directions are correct. So you will get to your destination as longs as your don't look at the GPS or rely on the pink path drawn in. In the default 3D mode it works correctly. So let's give it 4 on the GPS part. Hopefully a future update will fix this problem.

Also the GPS portion does have search (like most Garmin GPS's) which will locate businesses, stores, etc close to your location. This generally works good unless the database isn't updated (i think its updated when you buy new maps,...not a free update) . Stores open and close,..so.. the database is sometimes wrong. My first time using it to find a new doctor's address sent me to the wrong part of town. The doctor moved 2 years earlier. However between the built in data base and the real search ,..such as a Google search or AT&T yellow pages search, you will find what you are looking for. I get it a 3.5 rating in this area.

Now the phone part. There is NO one touch dialing, no MOST USED numbers, only your contact list and recently called list. Scrolling down 170 contacts to find the one you need is SLOW. There is a very tiny A-B, C-D, etc list on the very edge, however it is difficult to actual hit these buttons. Most of the time you accidentally hit a contact and then have to quickly hung up and start all over again from "A". You can not go from A to Z backwards (scroll up) but have to scroll down from A-Z in normal alphabetical order. Simplifying A,B,C,D ,.... ok, A,Z,Y,X,W ... no. So if you are calling someone with a name that starts with a T or a W, you have a long scroll. I try to use the recent call list for a favorites. However you must constantly delete normal callers out the list as it becomes VERY large quickly. If you call a number that requires you to enter additional number,...1 for operator,...2 for customer service,..etc, It is hit or miss that you can do that. The phone turns dark after ???? 5-10 seconds??? (seems to very) and the locks. By the time you press the power button and double tap the unlock button, the wait is too long.The answer machine says "I'm sorry lets try that again" or sometimes it just disconnects.So the phone part can be frustrating.

When receiving a call, if you touch the power button it sends the caller to the answerphone and turns off the ring. There is no option just to turn off the ring and allow you to answer the call. Accidentally hitting the oversized power button happens 30% of the time for me. This is also very frustrating! I give the phone rating a 2.5 out of 5.

Internet Function,hummm,.... OK, lets just says it is pretty terrible and very frustrating. You can not view the small cell pages like an Iphone but the full pages. Input is difficult, when scrolling across the page, you instantly jump to a link (not what you wanted). The back button goes back 1 to an infinite amount of pages, and you start over again. There is no forward button when it goes back too many pages (which is almost always the case). When attempting to get to Garmin's site and to the nuvifone accessories page,..I gave up after about 30 minutes of trying. Many objects on webpages do not work in the browser. No radar animations, no videos, no pop-up windows (which sometimes can be a good thing) work at all. The internet part rating is a about a 2 out of 5

The 3G speed is very slow compared to The Iphone. However this may be because the Iphone is using smaller cell pages. The Garmin often seems to be loading for a very long time. I hit the stop button so I can continue navigating.

With this in mind the 30 buck a month data plan is a mostly a waste.

Getting my email worked fine after getting it set up. The default settings did not work for me. I however can not read Microsoft .docx in attachments which it is supposed to be able to do. I have not investigated the problem yet. Since the emails are left on your server, you can download them on your home computer and read the attachment. The emails download to the Garmin are basically copies on the emails on the server. Also the emails can be viewed as a web page so you can view it as it appears on the computer. So,... the email part work good ,..lets say a 4 of 5 rating.

Texting seems to look and work like everyone else's, so that parts good,..P.S. there also 15 buck a month text plan.

The 6 buck a month fee for white pages, temperature and traffic is optional and the traffic may not even your area. One may wonder way should I pay for white pages, traffic and weather when I'm paying for a 30 buck data package. I'll just use the internet and get the info just as quick. Well if you think this will work then reread the internet part of this review above. PS,..the weather is just "your city" temperatures, not radar.

The 3m camera is terrible. The pictures with my 1m Samsung phone blow them away.
Some reviews say there is a video player and recorder. There isn't. It can not play videos or record them. No youtube. The camera function also rates a 1.

Audio is the next problem. The volume button is accidentally activated anytime you touch the phone. Most of the time I don't hear it ring because the volume is too low. There is no independent ring volume. It is all linked to the master volume switch which gets accidentally shifted every time you touch the phone. The volume on max is low. The audio sounds like a box with the speaker rattling. MP3 play back at a very low volume.

Well that's it. OK phone, texting good, and very good GPS. The rest is garbage and needs some work badly. Remember you need the data plan,text plan (if you want texting) and maybe the optional services plan (traffic, white pages, gas prices etc). That's a lot of extra bucks extra a month. And,..if you need to update you maps,..that you will need to buy the maps from Garmin or other stores at a nice 75 bucks per update. So the GPS portion isn't totally Free.

What's the final verdict?? Well if you want a decent phone, a close to real Garmin GPS, text occasionally, and have very limited internet use, then go for it. If you spend most of you day on facebook, youtube and twitter and like to take pictures and videos, then look for something else.

I edited the review because I have spent another 30 hours of testing and so far have not returned the nuvifone,.at least not yet. Garmin could have made a great Phone-GPS but for some reason settled for a fair one. They need to put the video player-recorder back, fix the camera flare (blurring) and be able to use the small webpages to make this phone a GOOD phone. They need independent volume controls, and options for the on off button.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars If you were planning on outdoor use... read this first!, December 25, 2009

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M. Howard (Fairbanks, AK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Garmin nüvifone G60 GPS Phone (AT&T) (Wireless Phone)

I made the mistake of buying this product after trashing my iPhone, assuming that a Garmin-built phone would be set up for outdoor applications like boating, kayaking, hiking... and thus the ultimate toy for a person who loves to consolidate their gear into the bare minimum of efficient, multi-use gadgets. But Alas! Garmin has chosen to market this phone to the soccer-mom demographic instead of to it's enthusiastically loyal outdoor contingent. Garmin only made their road-maps available to the nuvifone user... No USGS maps. No trail maps. No water maps. Not for any price. When I found this out, my enthusiasm for this product was totally crushed. To put it mildly, I felt betrayed.

I also am not impressed by the battery life, which seems terribly sub-standard, for a GPS or a phone. It doesn't seem to go more than 24 hours without a re-charge, even with the settings (email, sounds, screen-saver, etc.) dialed way down to save juice... and I'm not much of a talker. I'm hoping a battery upgrade will show up on the market, but unless/until it does I'm stuck with a cheap AA-powered emergency cellphone charger on my keychain to deal with the shortfall.

To be fair (and since I'm stuck with it), there are some points I do like about this phone.
- The removable micro-SD card. This feature makes the phone potentially useful as a zip-drive / mass storage device for transferring files (something totally lacking on the iPhone). I just picked up a 16gb card on Amazon for about $45 (w/shipping), and word is that a 32gb micro-SD will be hitting the market soon.
- The compass, and the basic navi-screen. The compass can be calibrated, something that those living in northern latitudes will appreciate. The classic satellite acquisition screen gives a quick 3-point provenience, and a good idea of the point's accuracy (Try that with an iPhone...cell-tower driven GPS/compass don't work unless there are enough towers in range to TRIANGULATE.).
- The camera. The phone actually looks like a camera, with a real button in a comfortable spot on the side of the case, just about where a camera button should be (NOT on the touch-screen, a feature I positively HATED on the iPhone). It is a full 3mp, can do decent close-in shots (5 inches,+/-), collects light well, and it can attach an instant lat/long to your photo if the GPS is running... a great feature to have when you're moving fast and see a great camping spot, beach, or other feature that you might want to get back to someday.

Hopefully, Garmin will get the message and expand their phone to fit the rest of us. I encourage you to check with the company's website to check out what maps are available for the nuvifone before deciding to go with another phone. This phone does have some great features, but the addition of useful off-road maps would turn it into the useful tool it was really meant to be...

<sigh> One can only hope...

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Elegant looking, well-constructed camera phone, November 9, 2009

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AM Radio - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung t659 Phone (T-Mobile) (Wireless Phone)

I've had this phone for over a month now, and really like it. Overall, the phone looks and feels really nice. All the keys have good tactile feedback (they're clicky), and texting on the flat numeric keypad is surprisingly easy. The slider mechanism is solid, and moves smoothly. The chrome paint on the front of the phone phone appears to be pretty durable, maybe more so than the brownish-grey paint on the back of the phone. The screen is bright and sharp. However, the image quality of the LCD display changes a lot with your viewing angle -- the image seems to "shimmer". This makes viewing pictures a little difficult. When the phone is in camera mode, and the screen is viewed on its side (landscape mode), the picture seems better.

I found the listening volume on the phone to be plenty loud, whether or not the speakerphone was on. I had no trouble pairing a Plantronics-brand Bluetooth headset with this phone. The phone also comes with a pair of wired earbuds with an integrated microphone.

The software menus are easy enough to use, but sometimes functions are grouped in strange ways. Small example: why is the RSS Reader in the Organizer section, with the Alarm Clock and Tip Calculator? Don't know.

I didn't try the Telenav GPS navigation out, because of the extra monthly cost.

I did, however, subscribe to T-Mobile's "primarily a phone" data plan (which costs less than their smart phone data plan), in order to make full use of the phone's web browser. The browser works well for checking out mobile versions of websites at 3G speeds. I watched a movie preview video - pretty cool. I use Yahoo! and Google's mobile pages with no troubles. *Some* desktop browser web pages are viewable, but require lots of scrolling around to read. However, don't count on these full-size web pages loading; more often then not, the browser will display a "page too large" message and give up.

It's not a smart phone -- it's a well-made, standard cell phone with nice exterior finishes and a responsive user-interface.