Tom Tom car kit is hitting the streets online store near you! Available now for preorder from our “local” Apple Online Store. They say you’ll still have to wait 2–3 weeks before it’s shipped to you but if you really want to be safe and be sure of having it as soon as it’s actually available, then you can place your order right now. But lets see the details…
Navigon Mobile Navigator, in my eyes the best navigation solution for the iPhone keeps getting better and better. We are at update number 4 if I’m not mistaken and at this point, there is nothing more I could wish for.
Turn by turn navigation, check. Automatic day/night view switch, check. Radar warnings, check. Text to speech, check. iPod commands within the app, check. And so much more, like bluetooth audio streaming to my AD2P enabled car-radio…such a great feature.
Anyway the latest update adds, well guess what? TMC. In other words traffic information. This feature does require a data connection of some kind. At this stage I’m not sure if Luxembourg is represented (it has never been in the past with TOMTOM to name just one).
I love the way Navigon keeps working on their app. Unlike some other companies (you know who I mean)…Their may be one feature missing and that would be realtime weather information. Still, kudos to Navigon.
Yesterday I wished for it, today Navigon did it.
iFun.de, a German iPhone news site, reports that Navigon has officially announced its own car mount for the iPhone. The mount comes with a car charger and will be available in October at a price of “under 40 Euros”. A subsequent model with its own GPS chip may be offered also. Navigon made this announcement at IFA, a consumer electronics convention currently taking place in Berlin.
Yesterday, we reported on information from Navigon indicating that an iPhone car kit to accompany its turn-by-turn navigation software was in the works. This information came to light via a wall post on Navigon’s Facebook page, though no other information had been provided by Navigon through any other medium up until now.
Navigon was one of the first turn-by-turn navigation apps available for the iPhone earlier this summer, beating one of its major competitors, TomTom, to the App Store. Now that the release of TomTom’s car kit for the iPhone has been pushed back to October, Navigon has another opportunity to be first-to-market with a major iPhone accessory.
UPDATE A correction has been made to note that the car kit to be released first will not have its own GPS chip, though subsequent models released may have one.
In the good ol’ Tomtom fashion, they are late, again and again. They really want us to linger. So from the already late september release, it will be an October release (well that’s what they say)…
Are you considering buying this accessory? Is it worth waiting for? why isn’t any other company trying to steal their thunder?
Anyway Tomtom dissapoints and considering that many people could have used their carholder for their summer roadtrip I bet that they lost some customers by now.
I love how impressive augmented reality works and looks, the perfect app-type to show-off what our babies are capable of. This app, called Wikitude Drive, is a turn-by-turn Navigator with AR goodies. In the clip you see it running on a HTC Magic, but it has been submitted to the AppStore. I can’t wait to give it a ride and to tell you all about it…
In the meantime enjoy this clip:
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