In an interesting break with other phone manufacturers, Panasonic and NEC announced nine new phones based on Linux Mobile (LiMo). Perhaps they just want to be different or a little daft in the mind? More likely it’s a move to take advantage of a low cost, open-source operating system that’s backed by a pretty big, almost fanatical user base.
Japanese mobile carrier KDDI and Immersion Corp are teaming up for the project in hopes of attracting the big names such as Nokia and Samsung. Let’s wish them the best and a lot of luck.
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Garmin-Asus announced their official partnership a few months back and with it we expected the long rumored, then officially announced Garmin phone to launch in a timely fashion. I guess our hopes were set a little too high, because word on the street is that we won’t see the first handset from the navigation company until June of this year, at least that’s what an inside source says. Carrier and price you ask? Keep dreaming, but if one of their phones - probably the G60 as alluded to by the source - is set to launch in June you can probably expect an announcement in May, which is around the same time Windows Mobile 6.5 launches (which might mean the M20 instead).
[via BGR]
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