Garmin announced its first mobile phone yesterday. According to Garmin, it’s slim, sleek, innovative, and a breakthrough. It’s a phone, navigator, camera, browser, and music player. Many of the media reports on it reflect surprise.
I am not surprised.
Why wouldn’t Garmin make a phone? Convergence has been in force in technology forever. The phone manufacturers […]

On Monday, Nokia said it is buying NAVTEQ, the provider of data for digital maps. Like the July announcement in which TomTom offered TeleAtlas for $2.5, a device maker is grabbing a provider of map data. Reportedly, some analysts are saying Nokia is overpaying for NAVTEQ. Perhaps, but these same analysts likely lack the understanding […]

Garmin apparently is spending millions to create and show an advertisement during this Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast. The company is so excited it seems to be bursting in it’s media release, claiming the ad is the “first-ever for any consumer electronics manufacturer that specializes in GPS navigation.” The company doesn’t stop with the ad - […]