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The TomTom US and Canada iPhone app is now available, although the car kit does not seem to be for sale yet. Other than price ($99.99) we don’t have a lot of other details, though we do have some screenshots and a video, so hit the jump or follow the iTunes link above to launch the App Store…
The first turn-by-turn iPhone navigation app for North America featuring on-board maps has been released by NAVIGON. Their MobileNavigator application differs from TeleNav’s AT&T Navigator in two very important ways:
UPDATE: Here’s the link to the TomTom iPhone page
A TomTom iPhone application and accessory kit was just announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Both Engadget and Gizmodo are covering the event live today, along with many others, and we’ve grabbed a few screenshots from the former to share. I’ll post more info once we have it.
Apple unveiled the iPhone 3.0 operating system yesterday and there were a couple of interesting mapping and navigation announcements as part of the show.
Turn-by-turn navigation
First of all, they opened the door to turn-by-turn navigation apps, as long as the developer uses their own maps. Expect to see application announcements soon from TomTom / Tele Atlas and also from TeleNav.
Garmin will be faced with an interesting dilemma. Do they develop an iPhone app, which would be quite the revenue generator if it became the top navigation app (not a high bar for Garmin). Or would that just encourage Garmin-lovers to skip the nuvifone and get an iPhone instead?
Ad nauseum indeed. I hope this is the last iPhone update for awhile.
Yesterday I posted about AT&T’s limited 3G coverage. This morning I came across this on Gizmodo:
“By the end of June, HSPA will be in 275 US markets. But by the end of the year, AT&T plans for that number to grow to 350.”
I counted I counted 235 cities this morning, so they better move fast to get 40 more in the next 18 days! Regardless, it does look like their network is expanding. read more
You’ve probably heard by now that Apple unveiled their next-generation iPhone yesterday and that it has GPS. So here’s a little roundup of what this may mean in terms of navigation and competition with personal navigation devices (PNDs) and the forthcoming Garmin nuvifone.
GPS Tracklog is written by Rich Owings, author of GPS Mapping.
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