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Old Feb 1, 2008 | 2:29 pm
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Originally Posted by USAFAN
Today in a surprise announcement in New York City, Garmin whipped out the nuvifone, a full-fledged GSM HSDPA smartphone built on its own operating system with GPS navigation at its core—but e-mail and web browsing close to its heart, and a camera built in too.
Yeah, I don't buy that. Nobody makes an OS from scratch just for a phone. I'm sure they meant to say that the phone interface was their work, but the underlying OS is probably some kind of linux flavor.
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