Garmin To Offer Mobile Phone?

With more and more cell phones offering GPS as a feature, it comes as no surprise to hear that Garmin, a leading company in Global positioning products, could be planning an entry into the cell phone arena.

“Garmin now believes there’s no one in the world that they can’t go head-to-head with in developing consumer electronics,” Evanson said. “That confidence in their engineering and design capability is an important mental shift at the company that’s happened in the last couple of years. Now, all consumer electronics categories are in play.”

Garmin spokeswoman Jessica Myers says the company hasn’t announced any plans to make a new cell phone.

“We announce 70 products a year so there are a lot of concepts and ideas that we look at, however that’s not in the immediate plans,” she said. “I can’t say we’re never ever going to do it. I mean, we’ve already done it.”

We’ll keep you posted if any new Garmin cell phones are introduced to consumers.

CNN