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TomTom for iPhone Appears in New Zealand App Store

Looks like a Garmin nav unit is on my Christmas list now. Would it be nice to have one device in my pocket that can do that? Yes, but not for $100.
 
Folks do realize that you can use the phone and TomTom (or any other application) at the same time, right?

I've seen lots of posts complaining about getting a phone call in the middle of navigating. If a call comes in, answer it, click the home button to put the phone call into the background and resume the TomTom application.

I had to do this earlier today and it worked great. You don't get the voice prompts to turn, etc, but that's to be expected. Everything else worked perfectly.
 
"Where's the beef?"

lfhdez said:
I feel EXACTLY the same way. I know I will buy it. And I would LOVE to test it out on my cross-country road trip that I'm going on tomorrow. I've already accepted the price and no matter how much we complain and complain, they will not lower the price... at least not for a while. The question now is, will I get some sort of discount if I wait for the tomtom dock and get both as a bundle.
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"WHERE'S THE DOCK?" :mad:
 
Razeus said:
$99 just for the App. No mounting/wiring hardware. Sorry. No buy.
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Exactly. $99 with hardware/mount would be the price point, especially when I bought a whole TomTom unit TWO YEARS ago for about.

Good luck with that, TomTom.

I'll wait until they come to their senses.
 
Capt Crunch said:
Currently you cannot listen to music and have speakerphone at the same time. The iPhones speakerphone is way too weak to talk in the car. For the longest time I have been wanting to be able to listen to my tunes, someone calls me, I touch a button, and I'm talking to the person without wires.

TomToms app+cradle will do this. It is icing on the cake that it will allow me to have nav as well.
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iPhone 3.0 supports streaming bluetooth. You can buy a car stereo that supports it. Sony has one for about $170.
 
sleepingworker said:
On page 4 and still no definitive answer - maybe the "zillion" times will start on page 5 lol. Or, rather than being sarcastic, you could have just answered.
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Or, rather than being incredibly ignorant, you could bother to read the previous posts? Do you really expect a friendly answer when the question has been answered so many times before?

Chundles said:
That's the whole point. Turn-by-turn GPS apps MUST provide their own map tiles. If you have a 3G or 3GS it will work anywhere, regardless of whether you have mobile connectivity available or not.
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Chundles said:
FACEPALM
Turn-by-turn GPS apps MUST provide their own map tiles. It will work anywhere so long as you can see the sky and have an iPhone 3G or 3GS.
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BeauGiles said:
Nope, it works everywhere. it's what you'd call a 'real GPS'.
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4np said:
Yeah, it's a standalone application with map content on your device. So no internet connection required...
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And these were only from the first few pages.

Owch, right?
 
BryanLyle said:
Folks do realize that you can use the phone and TomTom (or any other application) at the same time, right?

I've seen lots of posts complaining about getting a phone call in the middle of navigating. If a call comes in, answer it, click the home button to put the phone call into the background and resume the TomTom application.

I had to do this earlier today and it worked great. You don't get the voice prompts to turn, etc, but that's to be expected. Everything else worked perfectly.
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So you're saying that the app follows turn by turn visually while you're speaking on a call? Is this how competing nav apps work?

If Tomtom is unique in this feature, similar to how it is unique in the far-superior IQroutes urban directions, then this may tip the scales for some people in evaluating the high pricetag.
 
I tested it on the way to the airport this morning. Used the NZ female voice. Had some strange terminology (motorway instead of highway for example), but other than that, it worked as expected.

Only downside was that a few times it had me offroading in the mountains, when I was dead center on the highway. Either the Tomtom map is off, or the GPS is. GPS on the built in Google Maps had me on the highway though!
 
mvl said:
So you're saying that the app follows turn by turn visually while you're speaking on a call? Is this how competing nav apps work?

If Tomtom is unique in this feature, similar to how it is unique in the far-superior IQroutes urban directions, then this may tip the scales for some people in evaluating the high pricetag.
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Navigon works the same way.
 
BryanLyle said:
Navigon works the same way.
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That's good news that Turn by Turn can run during a call.

I may end up buying the Tomtom app in a few months for the Touch if Apple releases a bluetooth Touch with a larger 4.3"+ screen and Tomtom enables the LIVE services on the app.

One less thing to carry around is a huge benefit, but I don't want to downgrade from my Tomtom 720 until the Apple app catches up in navigation features. The only ones missing right now are Lane Guidance, TTS, and LIVE traffic/services. None of these should be that hard for Tomtom to patch.
 
So apart from the price being too high does this app satisfy everyone's needs? Does it look like being the best iphone GPS not taking into consideration its high cost?
 
I just wish that they would announce some information about the car mount.

I really want to get the app now, but don't want to if it's going to work out cheaper to buy them together; i suspect it will be.
 
Dingo Dave 69 said:
So apart from the price being too high does this app satisfy everyone's needs? Does it look like being the best iphone GPS not taking into consideration its high cost?
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IMO, no.

Igo has an upcoming update for TTS. TomTOM, no mention of this feature ever being implemented.

Igo has guaranteed free updates to maps until end of '10. Tomtom, no mention of free map updates, and I've heard lots of talk even this early that the maps are out of date.

Igo is also 20 bucks cheaper. I would have compared Navigon, but I hate the tiny font the street names use, so I won't consider it.
 
I can't for the life of me figure out how it's smart customer relations to charge our Kiwi friends 20% less for the US maps than the US residents. TomTom, you listening? Whazzup with that?!
 
Dingo Dave 69 said:
So apart from the price being too high does this app satisfy everyone's needs? Does it look like being the best iphone GPS not taking into consideration its high cost?
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I'll wait till I see how it treats saved landmarks and destinations. If it keeps them when a new map is downloaded it's definitely the best. If it nukes them, deal over.
 
peterdevries said:
You can be sure that an application needs specific coding to access the technology in the dock. Therefore it would be useless without the app. Just as Navigon et al. most likely will not be able to access the functions of the dock.

TomTom will surely have taken measures to prevent the dock from being used with anything else than their app.
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I'm glad I was wrong. According to Engadget the french TomTom website confirmed that the cradle will also work with third party apps. :confused: Strange, but it just might be true..
 
lfhdez said:
The question now is, will I get some sort of discount if I wait for the tomtom dock and get both as a bundle.
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That, is the question!

If I purchase it today, I would hope that we would be able to pro-rate the difference of said discount toward the purchase of the car kit. We shall see.
 
99.99 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek::eek::eek::eek:

A stand-alone device costs 50-70 dollars and includes a map... this is ridiculous. They are milking the Apple fan-base for as much as they can.

This is a rip-off!
 
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