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Here’s a look at the M20:

Here’s a look at the G60:

That’s a mouthful, but you really have to be a big fan of GPS to take a gamble on the Nuvifone M20 or G60. Garmin-Asus say that there are various connected services on the Nuvifone including real-time traffic, weather and white pages.

Garmin and Asus next week will show off two Nuvifones–smartphones with a GPS twist–but the larger question is whether pro-consumers will buy it.

Garmin-Asus is a co-branded partnership with Garmin and Asus parent Asustek Computer. The duo will show off the Nuvifone G60 and M20 at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week.

(Credit: Garmin)

The GPS features of the nuvifone M20 usher in a level of sophistication never seen before on a Windows Mobile smartphone. It has the navigation capability of a premium Garmin nuvi sat nav, and comes with preloaded maps and points of interest (POIs) - hotels, restaurants, stores, fuel stations and more - for North America, Eastern and Western Europe, or other regions. Selecting a destination is straightforward and requires limited input from the user. For example, users can search for a destination by typing in the specific name or address of an establishment, search by category, or navigate to addresses in the nuvifone M20’s contact database or on the web. The device then gives turn-by-turn voice-prompted directions and automatically recalculates if a turn is missed along the way. In addition, the nuvifone includes quick access to online points of interest through internet enabled local search.

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