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.

This is the kind of news I love… Parrot’s new carkit RKi8400 is exactly what I need and will buy for sure…who needs a cd player when you get something like this:

Parrot has introduced its new RKi8400 car stereo system for the iPod and iPhone. Designed for maximum compatibility with digital music sources, the RKi8400 features a USB port for connecting a portable hard drive or flash drive, an SD card reader, and a double line-input socket for analog sources, along with a built-in 30-pin connector for the iPod and iPhone. Other features include a hidden device storage area behind the removable faceplate, an external double microphone for improved voice clarity, Bluetooth for using the iPhone in hands-free mode and for accepting Bluetooth stereo A2DP signals, a 2.4-inch screen for displaying menus, phonebooks, and album art, an AM/FM radio with RDS, a 200 W MOFSET amplifier, and more. Parrot’s RKi8400 car stereo for iPod and iPhone is available now and sells for +/- €320.

Source: ilounge

TomTom’s iPhone car kit becomes more enticing every time we see it in action. The car kit will offer an enhanced GPS signal, ability to charge your device, hands-free dialing, speaker, audio out, third-party app support, and it may even turn your iPod touch into a GPS device, as long as there is an app that supports it.

But proof of its existence and features gets us nowhere. We need to know how much this much-hyped add-on is going to set us back and when we will be able to get our paws on one. Because after all, features mean nothing if it costs an exorbitant amount of money and comes out a year from now.

If it’s any consolation, Engadget claims that the car kit bundled with software will be priced under $200.