Garmin Asus A10 Review

Garmin Limited is a firm that is popular for its world Satellite Navigation services. It has developed and launched a product that has user-friendly menus, logical functions, and instinctive features. Garmin supply marine, automotive units, outdoor recreation, fitness, aviation, wireless applications, etc, with which the Garmin consumers can make use of the prosperity of information in timely way

In the year Apr’10, Garmin had showcased the release of a new device, referred to as Garmin Asus A10. This new Garmin Asus A10 is considered to be the hottest and attractive Android Smart Phone featuring the famous Garmin navigation. The product is a collaboration of Garmin Limited and Asus. The Garmin-Asus A10 is manufactured especially to aid those pedestrians. It focuses largely on the pedestrian supporting features and navigation for Asia-pacific and Europe, and it is estimated to be available for sale during the middle of this year.

Garmin Asus A10 is going to be a big thing for Android lovers, where you could utilize the Satellite Navigation functions from Garmin. The Satellite Navigation will aid you in vacation or traveling. You could explore about the path before travelling. While you travel, it will provide you route via Voice System continuously and you would never lose your track. It is going to matter a lot for those people who do not have much knowledge about directions or route.


The collaboration of Garmin and Asus results in a handset that allows users to make use of the resourcefulness of Android and Garmin’s GPS location services. It provides you a way to get connected globally. Garmin Asus A10 has a smooth and elegant appearance with a 3.2” inches HVGA Touch Screen. It has got 3 Touch Buttons that are placed beneath the display. The big display of the Garmin Asus A10 assists its users in viewing the Map and Direction in an appropriate size. In case you’re travelling on vehicle or by foot, you could simply look for the address and get directed via the voice system throughout the entire trip. It would be voicing out the Street Name and turn-by-turn route. As this Garmin Asus A10 would concentrate mainly on pedestrian needs, other features like the Lane Assist and Junction View are also provided.

The Operating System of the Garmin Asus A10 is the Google’s Android 1.6 Improved OS platform that comes preloaded with Google’s Mobile Services. This means that you could use this Handset to Sign-In to your Google account in order to utilize all the services offered by Google, like the Gmail, G Talk and other services. There are over 30 K apps that the A10 users can download and enjoy. They have bettered the capability of social networking among your friends circle, family and the rest of the world. It is works well and synchronously with the Wireless and Microsoft Exchange server.

The other main feature of Garmin Asus A10 comprises a 5 MP Camera that allows the users to take pictures that is clear and possesses High Resolution Quality. The Geo tagging picture functionality helps you in obtaining the correct location details and could be shared with your family or friends.  The display could be viewed in portrait or landscape mode with its in-built accelerometer feature. Additionally, the Google Voice Search feature of the Garmin Asus A10 will allow you to look for destination by directly stating your area of interest details. It will be of great help to the drivers who wants to know the route while they are on a course of a trip.

The Garmin Asus A10 sports a 1500mAh Lithium Ion Battery which gives a standby time of over 18 days and a talk time of over 9 hrs. Having such a long life means that you can use this handset without a need to charge up for log journeys. You could use your A10 for Navigation and other mobile related functionalities for a complete day.

With the outstanding GPS feature of Garmin Asus A10 you need not worry about the directions for your trip. It provides an unambiguous and uncomplicated map on the 3.2” inches Touch Screen Display. Additionally, the Pedestrian mode that was said before will allow you to access the lane assist and junction view in order to obtain more details on the destination that you intended.

The Garmin Asus A10 gives the power to connect you with the globe. With the Navigational Services, you can easily get to know about the details of your current location.  Some of the services that are included in this are Ciao, Converter, Free Map, Flight Status, Fuel, Panoramio, Safety Cameras, Weather and TrueLocal local search. The TrueLocal Local Search lets you to look for businesses in your locality. Using the Flight Status, you can get details on the flight arrival or departure timings from the worldwide airport based on your trip destination. Free Map will be updating your map continuously without any fee for the updates. These Services enable you to get notified of the information on real time based on your trip route.

Specification:

• Network: 2G GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, 3G HSDPA
• Model: Full TouchScreen Candybar
• Screen: TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors, 320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches, Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate the UI, multi-touch input method
• OS: Android OS
• Camera: 5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus, video, Geo-tagging
• Connection: GPRS Class 10 (4 +1 / 3 +2 slots), 32-48 kbps, EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps, HSDPA, Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, USB v2.0
• Memory: Internal microSD, up to 16GB, external microSD, up to 16GB
• Application: SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, games
• Browser: HTML, JAVA application he third party
• Color Options: Black
• Battery: Li-Ion 1500 mAh

Other Features:

• A-GPS support, Garmin navigation
• Location-based applications
• Digital compass
• MP3/eAAC + / WAV player
• MP4/H.263/H.264 player
• CityXplorer maps
• Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
• YouTube, Google Talk
• Document viewer
• Photo viewer / editor
• Organizer
• Voice memo
• T9

Price: Rp. 4,799,000  -  Second Rp. --