TomTom Releases iPhone Navigation App

andylim writes "Today TomTom released its long-awaited iPhone app that allows you to use your iPhone 3G and 3GS as a GPS navigation device. Recombu.com tested it out on video this morning and concluded that it works well but if you receive a call while you're driving then the app does cut out — it will restart once you've finished the conversation. The app costs £60 for the UK & Ireland version, £80 for western Europe, £45 for Australia and £60 for the US and Canada."

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[Yvan256]

The app costs £60 for the UK & Ireland version, £80 for western Europe, £45 for Australia and £60 for the US and Canada.

Why are all the prices in British Pounds? Did they just annex all those countries overnight or is the author of the article a lazy bastard?

And why does Slashdot suck so much with unicode? I copy/pasted that line from above yet the pound sign shows up with an extra character before it.

Re:New phone - apps transfer?

[horatio]

At that point, you won't get the option to restore from backup however, which means you have to jump through hoops if you had apps with important data to restore. iTunes still seems to be the best way to restore a phone.

hmm, I've been pondering a mobileme subscription. what kind of hoops do you mean? do you just not get prompted to restore from backup after manually re-entering your mobileme account info on a "blank" phone? seems like you could force a restore from backup in iTunes regardless of what mobileme did, no?

There are some apps that (not sure why or what the difference is) will not restore their application data from a backup. It might be that the app wasn't written in a way to take advantage of the backup/restore process.