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.