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hey guys jon rettinger here the newbie phone is a brand new offering from Garmin and it's built on an operating system no one's seen before it was built off of a Linux kernel but it's completely new interface so I wanted to give you guys a tour of it so you can decide if the newly phone g60 is an option for you or not so let's go ahead and unlock the device you push the button at the top double tap to unlock and this is a resistive screen so as you go through navigate you'll notice you've got a row of three icons call search and view map I'll do a separate video going into the navigation functions on the phone since that's really as one of its primary jobs but for now let's talk about the operates with some of the phone itself so call takes you to a pretty simple and relatively elegant-looking caller interface to call your contacts that will show up here you've got a dial pad and a call history you can add a contact very easily and these scrolling is relatively smooth you can add emails at addresses and add a ton of different contact information and to go back since there is not a home button you have to rely on those keys of arrows search takes you to the GPS and this is what you'll see if you're familiar with any sort of garment standalone gps unit this is going to look exactly the same but again it'll be a separate video focusing just on navigation and the view map takes you to the map which again opens up the GPS functionality so the main sort of crux the operating system is done from this right-hand row of icons and you can scroll through them and as I'll show you in a minute you can rearrange them any way you like but for now let me show you what they are so you've got contacts text messages emails open one up go back I opened up the map by accident text messages email web browser camera weather tools settings ciao so i'll talk about media player and calendar let me walk you through each of these contacts you just saw text messaging is a pretty standard text messaging interface go ahead and hit new message and you can type 2 or start typing the message and it relies of course on a full virtual keyboard this does have an accelerometer so when you turn the device you do get a landscape keyboard I will say the landscape keyboard is actually pretty good you get sort of the same ability that you got on the iPhone you can move letters around let me do a test here and i'll type something out on the keyboard this is a test so only one little error but you can get used to this keyboard very fast if you're worried about the keyboard all the g6 you don't it's actually quite good you go ahead hit done or send whatever you'd like we'll go back to standard view here we will exit out and we'll go back it's having a little bit trouble oops upside down there we open so let's go back to our tour of the device so moving right along you've got email this is a very standard email functionality you're going to get pop and you're going to get IMAP access but at least right now you are not going to be getting any sort of exchange service unfortunately it's a very simple email application i'll show you what it looks like if you want to set one up add a camel and you just put in the simple information it's relatively simplistic sort of what you would find on a feature phone you're not going to get a blackberry email experience you not be even get an iphone email experience but you will be able to get email so if email is a secondary concern queue but you still want to get it the nuvifone should be something to consider so moving a lil ride along we've got the web browser and this does have a full HTML capable web browser with 3g right now i'm connected over Wi-Fi so let's do a test of a web page here and i'll show you sort of these speed what just loads over a relatively fast Wi-Fi connection so we turn this into landscape mode again and we will go to ww there's TechnoBuffalo com so we will get done and we'll launch at and see how quickly it loads and show you a little bit about what the browser looks like so this is not the fastest of web browsers on most phones so the iphone blackberry storm t-mobile g1 or really a host of other devices we have already had the page load by now so the load times on this are not very quick however once the page is loaded you can get a very nice view of the Internet although as you can see it definitely takes some time so I'm going to cut the camera here and fast forward to when the page is loaded okay so here we are in the landing page of TechnoBuffalo this isn't a web browser speed test I cut the camera not to bore you but it took about 25 seconds for the page to load now once you're here you do not get flash capable of video so you're not gonna be able to play youtube videos but you do get relatively smooth flick scrolling however there is not any multi-touch and there isn't double tap to zoom in most your controls and zooming in and done by these two buttons down here so you can zoom in with the positive the amount with the negative and the text does clear itself and it's very legible it is a decent browser it's not the best that's out there but it's certainly not the worst if you want to do web browsing this is a capable browser and all your navigation is done from this bar on the side so let's go back and let's continue our overview of the device if you turn it upside down so you got web browser next thing we have is a camera and this has a 3 megapixel autofocus camera right now it's asking me follow on a disabled screenshot mode and what that means you can actually hold down the camera button it'll take a screenshot of whatever is on your screen it's actually a very nice feature so we're not going to disable that right now but we are going to go into the camera so there goes a picture of my desk it's a keeping true with the operating system itself it's a very simplistic interface I don't have any controls or options where they take advantage of the button at the top to snap my picture so we can step one of some papers on my desk and it takes a pitcher and so let me have the screenshot utility is still on these pop-ups can get a little bit on the annoying side but the camera pictures are clear way to expect from a 3 megapixel sensor on a on a phone definitely on par with the camera quality that you get onto the iphone although there is not any video recording capabilities as Viet so continuing will keep moving down now weather is interesting whether it's on your home screen we actually don't get access to the weather unless you subscribe to an additional AT&T plan which is quite interesting so if you hit weather and in this doesn't make that much sense you can just go to weather com on the browser and check your local weather we will see here this is going to ask me to activate data connection and it's checking if you have got the required server subscriptions this is an extra cost from AT&T I believe it comes in at around four or five dollars so if I want to get the premium access I can get the first 30 days for free otherwise at the end I'm going to be charged 599 and you don't just get whether that 599 you also actually get real-time traffic updates on the GPS so you're getting a lot with it but it's another six-dollar chargement tnt it's not required at all though to use the navigation functions on the device all those maps are built-in and don't require any sort of a network connectivity so I can't really show you whether let's take a look at tools and I would make a joke there about well we'll keep going so you've got where am I ll pull up the map you've got a calculator clock you can synchronize this with your pc I've not been able to get synchronized with a mac though well you can't access mass storage and drag things over to its four megabytes of internal storage or you can up that via the expansion card slot flight status turns off the data you get a unit converter some help traffic search notes and a checklist free standard feature phone functionality settings settings was much more simplistic than I expected system settings general Wi-Fi Bluetooth let's just go into general and here really just on off on for a lot of things you don't have the ability to tweak a lot of your settings it's really very cut and dry with what you want so distance units temperature units GPS simulator play not that many options that you get and that sort of slimmed down approach is taken throughout the entire menu system so audio controls radio here vibrate sounds and mixer proximity points and phone navigation you get some very simple navigation options whether you want it to be have a treat you as in a car or they're not you're just walking pedestrian directions are quite nice so if you're in a metropolitan city we realize on walking quite a bit like New York City or DC for example and display you just get some very simple display options now application you might be thinking wow this has an app store you are going to be disappointed this does not have an app store at least not yet and hopefully that garment has announced one this just shows you the applications settings that you have on a phone email browser and main menu order so you can reorder that icons that robe icons on the right hand side so keep going back now here's something called chow and chow is essentially geo-tagging your pictures it's similar to HTC's footsteps like you've seen on other devices it put them some information on every picture you take to let you know where you were you can add some notes into it and so you can always remember where your pictures were taken or sent up difference so that's all ciao is it does have a rudimentary music player simple play things simple a lot play back forward functionality can add a track you're not going to get the most elegant of music interfaces but it does work and it is functional and you can drag tracks on there just by plugging in via your mini USB does have full calendar functionality so you can sort of view your dates you go ahead an appointment it's got the days today's date circled so obviously the second and you can go ahead and add things yet if you'd like and that is the last icon choice that we have on the nuvi phone this phone and the operating system itself was first shown about 20 months ago by garmin really not much has changed since then so that's either positive or negative depending on how you look at it overall device does quite a lot it doesn't do anything other than navigation particularly well but it does do a lot of things so if you're looking for a device that sort of kin can handle a lot maybe not have the most elegant of interface newbie phone is a very good option I'll be doing a full review of it and i'll be doing a full demonstration of the navigation functionality so you can help the side phones right for you for exclusive content checking out on twitter twitter.com / john for lakers and to learn more about TechnoBuffalo check 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