You all may remember Asus-Garmin and those nice looking GPS centric phones awhile back, well the Linux OS which is at the heart of the handset is now dead, R.I.P.

Asus Nuvifone

Garmin has canned their own OS for Google Android, that means every Garmin phone from now on will sport Android and what I think to be Windows Mobile. The original Garmin OS has been canned due to difficulty in development, and because Android is just more awesome that every Linux mobile OS out there at the moment.

You can sit back and have faith in the truth that the next Garmin phone is heading out sometime during the 2nd half of 2009.

Via: [Slashphone]