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TomTom Releases iPhone Navigation App

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hit-the-road-tom dept.

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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  1. Re:What's the point? by hansamurai · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm assuming the TomTom says the directions out loud? Maybe Google Maps does that too but I don't own an iPhone or iTouch so I wouldn't know.

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  2. Typical..... by LibertineR · · Score: 1, Troll
    Apple users will pay double for an app with functionality that we've had on our Blackberries for years.

    I use the fantastic TeleNav app on my Blackberry Storm, an app that lets me call in addresses which are automatically downloaded to my phone. I dont have to type anything, EVER.

    But, I do understand that no technology is actually REAL until Apple puts out something with it. Never mind that the first 2 iPhones didn't even have a GPS chip. Now that Apple's got this Tom-Tom app, GPS Turn-by-turn will be all the rage.

    I keep forgetting that unless I wait years for the privilege of paying double, so that my technical toys come with that Apple logo, I just wont ever be a hipster!

  3. Re:Will there be an adroid version? by BitZtream · · Score: 0, Troll

    What a retarded statement.

    You'd rather be OS locked onto Android? Thats fine, but stop acting like its somehow drastically different using Android, you're still locked into an OS that is used on fewer models of phones than the iPhone OS.

    Do you enjoy being 'vendor locked' into whoever makes your car?

    Do you enjoy being vender locked into whoever provides your electricity or water?

    Get over yourself and off your high horse, iPhone/Apple users are known as smug asswipes, you'd fit right in as you are certainly a smug asswipe who thinks his shit (software of choice) is the only one that doesn't stink.

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  4. Re:What's the point? by duncanatlk · · Score: 0, Troll

    It duplicates an iPhone feature! How did it get through the approval process?