Love the idea but can why not have a bean-bag style dock? Personally I wouldn't be keen on having a very expensive touch screen phone attached to the windscreen by a suction cup... my regular TomTom hits the floor often enough on long drives to worry me and that's a damn sight more rugged than an iPhone.
so as i've already got a power secure docking cradle for my iphone and as my iphone is always connected to my car stereos 'aux input' do I need this cradle jobbie..?
if all its doing is adding a speaker and power then I assume not...? Then I can just purchase the app from the app store.
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So this is multi-threading not multi-tasking? What happens when you get a call when using the GPS...will the screen change to the call screen, does it flip back to the maps after the call...do you lose guidance during a call? So many questions!
@lifethroughalens: What happens when you get a call when using the GPS...will the screen change to the call screen, does it flip back to the maps after the call.
I assume it will work like any I-Phone app, it just goes back to it when you finished your call.
@Oliver: The GPS unit in the I-Phone is certainly up to the task, no external hardware is needed, in fact it's a rather good GPS unit that locks on very fast. Although your not meant to, I've been using GoogleMaps as my SatNav :), so if TomTom price it right they might have a sale.
Well it definitely seems to be dependant on the OS 3 {otherwise why would they wait until then}
"The TomTom navigation application for iPhone will be available via the Apple iTunes App Store, following the release of Apple’s OS 3.0 operating system."
http://iphone.tomtom.com/announcement.html
Wonder if it can be used with external Bluetooth GPS receivers e.g. for 2G iPhone and if want the GPS receiver to be in a different place from where you have the iPhone
Be cool if rotating the iPhone will automatically do the portrait/landscape thing - have always been more of a fan of the portrait mode {rather than the landscape mode preferred by the Go series} and can finally move on from using TT on a Palm T3...
Seems that others getting into the same act, though how useful the "FREE MobileNavigator Lite which will have all the useful functionality stripped out of it" will be is open to question...
I saw the keynote. The CEO clearly said the dock would be an option.
The application will be available in iTunes: you can't download hardware, and you obviously can't sell something that won't work until you go out and buy another piece of equipment.
I just heard the date for v3.0 firmware release is 17th June
and by the sound of it every Navigation provider there is has an iPhone release scheduled
btw... have you heard about the most recent addition to the sat-nav market; Navmii, It's awesome! I've been running it for months now on my old HTC phone... they have an iPhone release planned which I'm wating eagerly for cuz it's guaranteed to be cheaper than the rest
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@ F@AssMonk3h
Thanks for that heads-up on the Navmii - they even do a 5800 version which I might try. It would good to see a review of the best mobile phone software on some of the best handsets.
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