TomTom and Navigon Bringing Turn-by-Turn GPS Car Navigation to iPhone

I think you're all missing the point.

this will add huge functionality to your gps.

Push notifications for traffic, mobile speed cameras, over the air updates of speed cameras.

IQ routes.

All rolled into one handy package.

I would pay up to probably £49.99 and expect £19.99 for the mount.

I agree if the mount falls off the screen onto my hard gear knob I'd be pissed..
 
JimAtLaw said:
You mean "MMS not supported until some point in the indefinite future by AT&pple."

In any event, I'll be very curious to see how this works - the GPS in the 3G gets disoriented and is often off by a block or more, this will not work for turn by turn without hardware changes.
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No, that was an exact quote from the Apple website. End of summer 2009. It shows that when you're ordering your phone.
 
Southernboy said:
I wonder why the Tom Tom adaptor provides enhanced GPS… does the new iPhone need it or just those without the compass I wonder?
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TomTom has always worked fine without a compass - except when you leave from home and it can't tell you whether you should turn left or right, because without a compass it doesn't know in what direction you are pointing until you start driving (and then it guesses that you are not driving backward :D ) At that point you have to check its map and can't rely on voice instructions.

An adapter that includes a GPS receiver would be great for the 20 million or so iPod Touch users.
 
i'm glad to finally see this, but i probably won't buy the car mount. i already have gps indash in my truck. but it would be nice to have turn by turn in my pocket, wherever i go
 
syklee26 said:
it's amazing how American GPS manufacturers can successfully run a business when Asian countries, such as Korea, provide amazing Nav system for the same price.
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And the first thing that jumps out of the picture is the name of the device --- KT Show Wibro. KT controls 90% of Korea's fixed line telephone, 43% of broadband, 31% of mobile telephone. It's a loss leader to sell you their Wibro (Korean version of WiMax) service. That GPS will need a monthly subscription service to their wimax network.
 
Parky said:
It has nothing to do with 3G, it uses Satellite signals for the GPS!
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I'm sure that he knew that. The 1st generation iPhone didn't have built in GPS. I believe he was referring to 1st gen owners, aka non 3G users.
 
Harun said:
If we have this much hype about it and no price it means it is going to be expensive.

I bet $199.
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True, it'll probably be steep. However, only about 4 years ago I bought the Tom Tom GPS software for the US (on an SD card), a windshield mount, a car charger for my Palm Treo 650 and the small square-ish GPS unit... (I'm still using it)... the whole package was $169 if I remember correctly.

I'm guessing that the Tom Tom GPS for iPhone will probably be $99 through the App store, and they'll have to give buyers a code of some sort to use to acquire the GPS unit / Windshield mount.... OR would you buy the GPS unit in stores and use a code to download the software.

This seems to be the only, if not one of a select few, Apps which requires a separate piece of hardware to run it.
 
Pricing for Navigon will probably be the same as for the other mobile versions:

Between 99 € (around 140 USD) for the standard version and 149€ (around 210 USD) for the version including 2 years free updates of the maps.

TomTom will probably be 79 EUR (110 USD) which is also the same price as their other mobile phone versions.
 
nep61 said:
True, it'll probably be steep. However, only about 4 years ago I bought the Tom Tom GPS software for the US (on an SD card), a windshield mount, a car charger for my Palm Treo 650 and the small square-ish GPS unit... (I'm still using it)... the whole package was $169 if I remember correctly.

I'm guessing that the Tom Tom GPS for iPhone will probably be $99 through the App store, and they'll have to give buyers a code of some sort to use to acquire the GPS unit / Windshield mount.... OR would you buy the GPS unit in stores and use a code to download the software.

This seems to be the only, if not one of a select few, Apps which requires a separate piece of hardware to run it.
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It doesn't require a separate piece of hardware... but it will use the GPS chip/antenna built into the mount if it is available.
 
thecritix said:
I think you're all missing the point.

this will add huge functionality to your gps.

Push notifications for traffic, mobile speed cameras, over the air updates of speed cameras.

IQ routes.

All rolled into one handy package.

I would pay up to probably £49.99 and expect £19.99 for the mount.

I agree if the mount falls off the screen onto my hard gear knob I'd be pissed..
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I don't think we know yet whether in fact we will get traffic, etc, through this service.

I am very interested to know if traffic, etc, will be proviced and how well navigation will work if you don't use the cradle (I already have good mounting solutions in both of my vehicles that I use my iphone in).

I also think that Tom Tom is going to milk this for everything they can get out of it. $99 for the application and you will have to pay annually for map data updates. The hardware cradle will go for another cool $199 or you can get both together for $149.

I don't expect them to pull ANY punches on pricing until suitable competition is on the scene.
 
mrklaw said:
No news on an ipod touch version? Many many more of those than iphones, and I expect many people would upgrade to an ipod touch for good, fully featured apps like this.

And with the new OS 3.0 offering bluetooth peripheral support, they could sell a little bluetooth GPS that sits in the mounting cradle, or be compatible with existing bluetooth GPS units
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Until the iPod touch gets GPS this wouldn't work on one anyway.
 
I held off on buying a GPS earlier this year because I had a feeling this would happen with the new iPhone.

I'm also glad to hear Garmin is also releasing an app, the more choices the better!
 
Its comical that this is presented as "much anticipated" as if Tom-Tom is doing something that is a breakthrough here. I'm sure what they produce will work well, but I've been doing "turn by turn" navigation on my iPhone 3G for several months with G-Map. Its actually quite good and I could continue to be happy using it if anything better never came along, especially for the low $29 price. The mount that Tom-Tom has does look like a winner if it works the way they are saying it does.
 
I can see them using the new in-app purchasing feature with this one. You simply buy the program from the app store for about £20-30 and then pay through the nose for the maps. They may even give away the program for free. Single cities for cheap (£5 each) - remember TomTom 7 came bundled with some HTC phones and had a free city map, £50 for a state/country (ie england), £70 for a big country (ie half USA or UK & NI) and £99 for more (ie all USA or all of Western Europe).
 
Chaos123x said:
Is Garmin making a app? If so I will wait for them.

If not I will buy this.


Been waiting forever for this, it's the only reason I upgraded to the 3G iPhone, who knew it would take this long to get a GPS program, using google maps while driving is like a accident waiting to happen.
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I have my doubts on Garmin delving in to the iPhone. Hopefully, I'm wrong, but the reason why I think that they won't is b/c they're coming out with a mobile phone.

w00master
 
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