iPhone TomTom Application $99
August 18th 2009 13:53
Category: Mobile Phones
I'm not the biggest Apple fan, but my parents both have iPhones, as well as several people I work with. I have the Palm Pre, and I love it, but dangit iPhone has tons of awesome applications. The new TomTom app is a little on the expensive side, but hey it's cheap if you look at in the sense of it's cheaper to purchase this application for iPhone than it is to purchase an actual GPS device.
And, hey this TomTom application may be the start of fading out actual GPS devices. Check out why...
The TomTom app for iPhone is loaded with a map of the United States and Canada, which is pretty standard for the GPS devices. You can also find separate versions for Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
Basic features of the iPhone TomTom app include:
* The app has voice enabled, turn-by-turn directions.
* 'Tap and Go' which allows you to tap your way from point A to point B with complete multi-touch zooming and pinching on-screen maps.
* One touch navigation for contacts in your address book.
* Thousands of points of interests to include restaurants, gas stations, and ATMs
* 'IQ routes' that help you figure out the best and most efficient route that is based on the driving experiences of many drivers and road speed data.
There are other GPS apps that you can purchase if you don't want to pay $99 for a cell phone application. You may want to consider Navigon's MobileNavigator ($69), CoPilot Live ($34), AT&T Navigator (free, but $10 amonth on your phone bill), and Network in Motion's Gokivo ($10 a month). But, even with these apps, you'll find that the TomTom app is the first and only GPS app right now that has hardware support.
Before you go and purchase the TomTom app for your iPhone, you want to make sure that it will benefit you better than purchasing a real GPS device. Basically, as of now the reviews are pretty mixed. You've got some saying that the app is very impressive with performance almost like the TomTom GPS device, and other reviews that claim that it is awful and the directions are not completely accurate.
But, even with the reviews and the $99 price tag, the TomTom app is currently the second most purchased GPS application in the iPhone App Store. Given time, there will be updates to iron out the current kinks.
Personally, I think that if you wait a little, the kinks will be fixed and the price will be lowered, but I wouldn't expect the price of this app to be lowered too much. It is nearly a full on GPS device all on your cell phone.
And, later this year, you'll find that there will be a special TomTom iPhone car holster that will be released
The TomTom app for iPhone is loaded with a map of the United States and Canada, which is pretty standard for the GPS devices. You can also find separate versions for Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
Basic features of the iPhone TomTom app include:
* The app has voice enabled, turn-by-turn directions.
* 'Tap and Go' which allows you to tap your way from point A to point B with complete multi-touch zooming and pinching on-screen maps.
* One touch navigation for contacts in your address book.
* Thousands of points of interests to include restaurants, gas stations, and ATMs
* 'IQ routes' that help you figure out the best and most efficient route that is based on the driving experiences of many drivers and road speed data.
There are other GPS apps that you can purchase if you don't want to pay $99 for a cell phone application. You may want to consider Navigon's MobileNavigator ($69), CoPilot Live ($34), AT&T Navigator (free, but $10 amonth on your phone bill), and Network in Motion's Gokivo ($10 a month). But, even with these apps, you'll find that the TomTom app is the first and only GPS app right now that has hardware support.
But, even with the reviews and the $99 price tag, the TomTom app is currently the second most purchased GPS application in the iPhone App Store. Given time, there will be updates to iron out the current kinks.
Personally, I think that if you wait a little, the kinks will be fixed and the price will be lowered, but I wouldn't expect the price of this app to be lowered too much. It is nearly a full on GPS device all on your cell phone.
And, later this year, you'll find that there will be a special TomTom iPhone car holster that will be released
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Comment by Lara M
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The inaccuracies so far are quite minor; like saying to turn at 50m instead of 100m (but u can see from the map that you can't turn that soon) or that your destination is 100m ahead but it's actually 200m! There's also a slight lag 'cos the GPS signal isn't as strong on a phone than on an actual GPS unit.
Like u said, it'll be ironed out in no time...
So far, very happy with the purchase
Comment by Whitney
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I think in about 6 months or so, the kinks will be ironed out, and in about 12 months, the price will be lowered.