Hey, bethink the Nuvifone? Sure you do -- it's Garmin's access into the advanced apple of smartphones. You know, the company's Linux-based, proprietary OS buzz that's abundant on GPS integration? Well according to a contempo report, affairs to barrage the accessory in the aboriginal bisected of 2009 accept stalled, with the aggregation advertence that it will be blame the window aback appear article afterpiece to Q3. President and COO Cliff Pemble expounded on the difficulties of architecture a smartphone from blemish during a appointment alarm with analysts, acquainted "Smartphones are complicated and bringing one to bazaar that's congenital absolutely from the arena up on a custom Linux belvedere is not an accessible task." If you'll recall, the aboriginal advertisement of the Nuvifone was way aback in January of 2008, with a planned absolution in Q3 of that year -- agreement this new barrage a abounding 12 months out from the advised artery date. We're all for competitors in this market, but it seems like maybe the association at Garmin jumped the gun with all these dates they've been bottomward on us -- absent launches don't absolutely advance confidence.
