And just like that, the Nuvifone is dead. Announced today, Garmin and ASUS are done introducing mobile handsets that combined Garmin’s GPS brand with ASUStek. ASUStek will go their own way building mobile phones that might use Garmin as a GPS solution while Garmin will rely on selling their services through “certain consumer application stores”. more »

The onslaught of new smartphones equipped with satellite-navigation features is becoming a big threat to the dwindling behemoth in the personal navigation, Garmin. While the beleaguered company blames the weak economy and that consumers seem to be more cost-conscious these days, you can’t dispel the blow created by the wireless industry. Today, personal navigation is more »

Go figure, the Nuviphone is a popular name. Reminiscent of the iPhone name dispute between Apple and Cisco, Nuvio an internet telephone provider is suing Garmin over trademark infringement.