Garmin Looks to Android for Direction

Submitted by AndroidNewb on Friday, 6 November 200923 Comments

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With the recent announcement of Android 2.0 and the eagerly anticipated addition of Google Maps Navigation, it should come as no surprise that established navigation companies like Garmin weren’t as excited about it as us Android users were. However, as part of their “Q3 Earnings Call Webcast,” Garmin has indicated that they plan on joining the Android team at some point next year. The image here is a page of the presentation indicating their intent. The full presentation can be found HERE.

This of course should come as no surprise from a company whose slogan is “Follow the Leader”.

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- 6 November 2009 at 1:31 pm

Streets Of Boston said:

Images are missing….

- 6 November 2009 at 8:54 pm

just some dude said:

keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer. good thinking garmin. I love my garmin handheld, but a garmin running android probably not a bad thing.

- 6 November 2009 at 11:32 pm

GPSCharlie said:

While many phones have GPSs, most of them have appalling accuracy. Augmented reality apps and many others would benefit greatly from greater accuracy – and it is easily possible -, yet consumers seem to focus exclusively on time-to-first fix. Is there still room for a real GPS company to take the lead on better hardware??? Educate the masses.

- 7 November 2009 at 12:08 pm

mlayer said:

I'd love to see it but I doubt it. The phone industry is far too cutthroat to allow for a feature whose value may be hard to explain in a corporate board room. There's a lot of emphasis on "good enough." The best thing in the end may be to raise the bar on what "good enough" is to the consumer.

That said, there will be a lot of room on the software side for developers to take advantage of what Google will provide through this app.

- 7 November 2009 at 4:45 pm

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- 7 November 2009 at 12:15 pm

ari-free said:

Android's not just a nav solution. It's an OS that all these devices (nook, Garmin, etc) want to run on.

- 8 November 2009 at 1:48 am

just some dude said:

there's not much to take advantage of, the nav app is pretty much all you can ask for. now its just a waiting game to see which GPS/NAV company signs up to join the OHA.

- 8 November 2009 at 3:57 am

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| Android Arena said:

[...] Garmin unveiled their plans to roll out an Android-based handset as soon as 2010 at an event dedicated to reporting their financial results for the last quarter a few days ago. Aside from making a general statement, the manufacturer failed to provide specific information on the matter, so we still don´t know when we are to expect the first Garmin-branded Android device. We wish we could tell you more, especially given Google´s latest move to roll out a completely free navigational app, Google Maps Navigation that has been around since Android 2.0 came out, must have made a lot of people at Garmin quite angry indeed. We do wonder what their team is up to in order to return the favour and strike back. If you happen to know anything on the topic, please, do not hesitate to get in touch via tips@phonearena.com. source: Garmin via AndroidGuys [...]

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