Tom Tom $99 GPS App For iPhone Review
TomTom has finally pushed out its latest iPhone app, became available late Sunday night, with versions for Australia, New Zealand, Western Europe and North America. The $100 app is the first to truly bring standalone GPS performance to a smartphone platform.
The app offers many of the features offered in its standalone GPS devices, including navigation help, trip-planning tools and multi-language support.
With iPhones selling for as little as $99, the combination of phone, software, and mounting kit should cost less that $300. Apple selected it to be one of the featured demos at its World Wide Developers Conference in June.
In addition to TomTom’s proprietary maps and the TeleAtlas, which it acquired in 2008 for $4.8 billion in a bidding war with rival Garmin, it offers several features custom made for the iPhone OS, like:
- Tap and go: Tap the multi-touch screen to choose your starting point and destination. Scroll through the menu, or pinch to zoom in and out on a map.
- Meet up with friend: Find an entry in your iPhone contacts list, and the TomTom app will find the way there.
- Find a place to eat: Choose a restaurant, call to reserve your table, then follow the directions.
- The smartest routes: TomTom IQ Routes systen claims to calculate the smartest, most efficient route based on the collective experience of millions of drivers.
The company will also offer a car kit, so that drivers can attach their iPhones to the front window or dash.
good to know the features of tom tom app but pricey
The overall price of $300 is not an attractive alternative to proper gps devices
I am worried about Garmin and it seems the future of garmin is not in city but non civilian use only