Man, it took some serious map consulting to find Mio’s booth buried at the back of the south hall, level 2.  Surrounded by fake iPods, cell phone holsters etc. one has to wonder, just how late did they invent their CES reservations; or did they have something to hide?

One thing they were not hiding (just not giving any details out on) is that beauty: a dual sided GPS phone.  Most likely

to reach in Europe later that year, Mio believes that phone is a good extension of their core capabilities and will bring more consumers into the the loyal Mio following.  A Mio spokesperson declined to take it out of the case to let me fingerprint it up.  Rats.  Another image is below.

After relating my frustration with satellite acquisition times in other GPS phones, I was treated to […]

Orginal post by Joshua Topolsky