Great phone, but it’s already obsolete…

I dunno about you, but I’m in love with this phone: the Garmin-Asus A10 (you can find more here).

Garmin-Asus A10

It got all the qualities that I maybe loved: it’s a full-fledged smartphone, it has GPS capability (with a dedicated chip), it’s an Android (albeit with Eclair 2.1, with no update to Froyo), it feels nice in my hand, it’s made by two reputable company, it’s cheap (you can find one for less than RM1,000) and more.

But the phone is deemed a failure because:

• It came to the market a bit late;
• Garmin and Asus is no longer sharing a bed together;
• No software update to Froyo is a killer;
• Support by Asus Malaysia is crappier than crap;

The A10 has been discontinued, but Asus is still providing the support, even if it’s crap.