Garmin-Asus, introduced the Garmin-Asus A10, a touchscreen display mobile phone operating with the Android system that’s optimized for pedestrian navigation. The A10 is likely to be available in mid-this year in Europe and Asia-Pacific.

For those times when walking is the best option, the A10 is well suited for city routing because of its well lit, 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen, electronic compass and long-lasting 1500mAh battery. As with other Garmin-Asus Android-powered products, the A10’s GPS functionality are optimized to ensure that consumers have very best location and also routing experience a cell phone can have. Detailed roadmaps are pre installed on the A10 so that users don’t need to pay and watch for 3rd party roadmaps 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 walking routing, the A10 is ready to be used within an automobile out-of-the-box, plus it comes with a powered audio mount which magnifies the volume of the device’s voice commands.

Garmin-Asus A10

The A10 is mostly a full-featured smartphone on the Android platform which combines Google Mobile Services by using one-click use of Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, calendar, contacts and Android Market, where customers can find over 30,000 software to grow and modify their own cell phone to suit their life style. Android applications which incorporate location-centric content are also able to utilize the A10’s improved GPS capability.

So that you can increase a user’s capability to stay in touch with family, friends and business contacts, the A10 works with Microsoft Exchange server and can wirelessly synchronize contacts, calendar and enterprise email. Account set up is user friendly, plus in just a few easy steps users can have their own contacts, calendar and email all set.

Further A10 phone features add a strong WebKit browser with multi-touch,

5 mega-pixel camera which includes auto-focus capability that automatically geotags photos using an accurate location reference. The built-in accelerometer can easily change the display so that screens may be viewed in portrait or panoramic mode.

The A10 also supports optional cityXplorer maps, which makes it possible to plan and apply routes that contain public transit alternatives including bus, tramway, metro and suburban rail systems.

The Garmin-Asus A10 is estimated to be available in mid-2010 in Europe and Asia-Pacific. Further information about Garmin-Asus products can be obtained at www.GarminAsus.com.