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The A10 Android Smartphone with Garmin Navigation

As some of you will surely remember, only a couple of days ago, Garmin introduced on the US market the Garminfone, an Android smartphone providing extensive navigation capabilities. And now, the company is back with yet another offering (or, better said, the same offering in a slightly different packaging and branding), namely the Garmin-Asus A10 Android smartphone, a device that comes pre-loaded with Garmin navigation software and that will become available solely in Europe and Asia Pacific.

Targeting mostly pedestrians, the A10 has a bright, 3.2-inch HVGA touch screen, electronic compass and long-lasting 1500mAh battery. Moreover, the smartphone comes pre-loaded with detailed maps so that users do not have to pay and wait for third-party maps to download from a server, nor will they lose their turn-by-turn, voice-prompted navigation if they are out of cell phone coverage. In addition to pedestrian navigation, the A10 is ready for use in an automobile out of the box, and it comes with a powered audio mount that magnifies the volume of the device’s voice commands.

Additional features include a powerful WebKit browser with multi-touch, a 5-megapixel camera with auto-focus capability that automatically geotags images with an exact location reference. The built-in accelerometer will quickly change the display so that screens may be viewed in portrait or landscape mode.

Moreover, as any serious Android smartphone, the A10 integrates Google Mobile Services with one-click access to Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, calendar, contacts and Android Market, where users can find more than 30,000 applications to expand and personalize their phone to fit their lifestyle. Android applications that have location-centric content are also able to utilize the A10’s enhanced GPS capability.